Blind Man's Buff: Bannister's Muster, Book Three Paperback – 9 Mar. 2018

You may have heard that Norman Lindsay, author of The Magic Pudding, maintained that children like best to read about food and about fighting. Well, there's plenty of both in this book, with lots of baking and sumptuous feasts and struggles against wizards, monsters and pirates. Also lots of magic, friendly animals and exploration of amazing places. There is a strong safe family feeling, but the younger ones are often off on their own, voluntarily or otherwise, getting into heaps of danger.It's very exciting and fun to read. My main concern is that the Knife of Clarr is used rather too often as a deus ex machina, but mostly I was relieved too!If you've been wondering about the series title, you'll get an explanation in this book, though it surely also applies to the wider gathering of allies for the rebellion. It is very definitely a continuing series, so you'll need to have read the earlier books to fully enjoy this one, but its own adventures do get resolved though you know there are more to come.I received a free copy and this is my voluntary review.