No, they don’t have it at any branch. I will have to make another of my daring ILL requests, or pony up. I could buy the whole trilogy and then loan it to my granny to read, which would help me justify the expense, only I think she would be a little disturbed, having lived through WWII.

Sadly this interlibrary system doesn’t work as well here. It costs 2 or 3 euros I think and then you have to wait for weeks. But only if some other library in the area has it. But I’ll be back in uni in a month and hopefully I’ll have more luck there (fingers crossed!).

Libraries are so weird! Why would they only get the first book in a trilogy? My library never understands that some books are part of a series, but they do get a German and an English edition of a picture book!

Doesn’t have it yet = has it on order and it will arrive soon? Because I had enough frustration waiting for my library to transfer their copy of Half a Crown from the far-away branch to the branch I go to. If they hadn’t had it I would have been seriously put out.

Wow, that does sound very bleak. And suspenseful! I may have to hold off on trying those until October when I can skip to the end.

I haven’t read it, but I’ve had it on my list for a while. I just clicked through to your review and almost choked on my coffee with excitement because I totally didn’t know it was a boarding school book. AWESOME. I am getting that at the library when I go tonight. And dude, your footnote about British school girls foiling enemies filled my heart with joy. I am hoping my library has at least some of those.

Yeah, and in spite of the bad ending to the trilogy, I still think it’s very worth reading. Don’t thank me, thank Memory–she read them all earlier this year and wrote reviews that made me drool. :p

I expect they will be–I think the author’s Welsh herself, not American at all. But I could be wrong about that.