I rather enjoyed the first season of this interesting mash-up between paranormal Fantasy and spy novel, in spite of its somewhat annoying tendency to pull its punches every time anything even faintly resembling a big showdown or a major reveal came in sight. In consequence, we start into Season Two with dozens of dangling threads from the previous season and, quite unsurpringly, none are taken up in the season opener. Well, almost none, for we do meet an old acquaintance which we weren't really expecting to see again, at least not this soon.... but let's avoid spoilers.

Awakening sends Seasons Two off with an explosive opening, and - as has been a constant through all instalments of this series so far - is great fun, whetting the reader's appetite for more magic and espionage mayhem in 1970's Prague.