Flora's Dare

This book comes after Flora Segunda, and also deserves a blog entry.

It starts off with Flora being stuck in her room, grounded, because she danced with the birdie (the bloodthirsty god country) ambassador, which was sort of treason. She then goes to a theatre where a sudden ant-government rally breaks out while she is in the toilet. She manages to escape, because her sister Idden pulls her out of the crowd to tell her that she has deserted the army and to make Flora swear not to tell. Then they all get into a horse carriage to get away, although Idden jumps off and disappears into the city. Udo, who came with Flora has obtained a zombified Springheel Jack (infamous outlaw) who he stores in Flora's house when they realize that he got killed in the rally as they were escaping and now is an undead zombie. He stores him at Flora's house so the zombie powder can wear off, then he can drag him to the police station and get the bounty.
Then Valefor, in desperate need of Life force, eats Springheel Jack, but left the boots so Udo can still get the bounty. They were proof he was dead because he would never take them off, alive. Udo gets mad, so instead of getting the bounty, he wears the boots. Which begin to influence his attitude until they inject a full blown Springheel Jack sentience into Udo's body. The boots turn out to be simply the storehouse for his soul.
Then the birdie ambassador tells Flora that he needs her help to free a giant magical squid under the city. The squid is actually a magical entity trapped in the form of a squid in order to threaten the city for someones evil purposes. It worked. But now the squid is having a baby and is going into labor and causing city endangering earthquakes. Now Flora sets off on a mission to gain a diary that will tell how to release the squid. While doing so, she accidentally travels into the past but eventually gets back while she and the person she met are teleporting away from a ghoul.
Then the big magician says that the only way to release the squid by deactivating the imprisoning sigils, is for the last descendant of the person who trapped the squid to die. Then he says that she is the last descendant, and proceeds to use his birdie police force to try and kill her. Flora comes back to him at the Blinskir baths and says that the only way for the sigils to be broken is for the last descendant to die by drowning. She then zombifies him, and leaves Udo (back to normal) to keep him zombified or knocked out until she comes back. She then dives into the baths which are actually not filled with water, but with breathable liquid magic. This happens only once in a while when the baths connect with the magic ocean. Flora uses this to access the squid's prison, then she uses a key obtained from the past to unlock the sigils. Then everything is happily ever after with Flora dancing with ghosts of her dead relatives at her real rightful house (weird happy ending) But one thing is strange, the person she met in the past, Tiny Doom, her mother, is not there. And this is because she had tried the Ultimate Ranger Dare, to escape death. Small note: from knowledge gained from the book, you do this somehow by drowning yourself in the magic ocean and jump over the abyss where all souls go, unless they come back out as ghosts. The second to last ranger, (missing in action) had almost done this, but only attained a sort of time travel into the future where she met Flora. Then it just leaves me hanging off a cliff, cliff hanger.

The only thing I could say about that book was, that it was intense, and very well thought out. And also, I can't wait for the next book to come out.