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So now I've read Yesterday's Magic, the sequel to Tomorrow's Magic, aka the Post-Apocalyptic Adventures of Emo Teen Merlin.

My favorite things about this book:
- the plot kicks off when Heather is given an EVIL ENCHANTED LISA FRANK LUNCHBOX. Literally, it is a plastic lunchbox covered in pink sparkly unicorns, and they're like 'ooooh, ancient technology! so pretty!' and then it teleports Heather into the clutches of evil. This is the most appropriate thing I have ever read

My least favorite things about this book:
- it starts off with fifteen-year-old Heather and several-centuries-old Emo Teen Merlin getting engaged! Yay! Celebrations ... for all ...?
- then there's the sequence with Evil God Kali that is right out of the worst bits of an Indiana Jones movie
- versus the sequence with Baba Yaga where Baba Yaga's just like 'yeah yo I guess I used to be powerful and amoral but now I just like taking care of my adopted kids and chattering a lot, anyway I'm gonna stay out of this Merlin vs. Morgan war because it's WAY out of MY league!'
- versus the sequence with Raven and Bear and various other figures whom it took me ages to recognize because if I am not mistaken they appear to be in the wrong part of the Americas ....????
- basically I'm just putting a moratorium on Pamela F. Service writing about other people's spiritual traditions and cultures. PLEASE STOP.

Things about this book about which I can only laugh:
- Heather now has magical telepathic powers to communicate with people around the world. She's always had these powers. Just because they were never mentioned in a previous book doesn't mean she hasn't always had these powers, jeez, guys, way to be prescriptivist