Disappointing continuation of the adventures of Kate and Cecy

After their adventures in England the cousins ​​Kate and Cecy with their freshly baked husbands on their honeymoon on the Continent. Not only the journey proves to be harder than expected, they will soon involved in mysterious events. A bottle with a mysterious liquid, mugger, an inquisitive young man and his tutor, who keep coming up in the strangest places - suddenly there are the cousins ​​in the middle of a magical conspiracy that could plunge Europe into disaster ...

After the wonderful magical Regency "Sorcery and Cecelia" the expectations were very high screwed. Maybe too high. The letters, who wrote the two cousins, bursting with adventurous events, droll remarks and charm. It followed curious the two storylines and speculated as to when and how they would converge. Since both cousins ​​"The Grand Tour" are traveling together in the reader their experiences experienced this time by Kates diary entries and the official report of Cecy. Unfortunately these records not develop the joke or the liveliness of the letters. Thus, "The Grand Tour" quite straight in the first half lengths. In addition, Kate uninterrupted Maulen about the weather and the difficulties of travel in the long run is tiring and also do not fit to the nature of how we got to know him in "Sorcery". The basic idea of ​​the (of course again magically tinged) adventure is quite good, but the implementation leaves much to be desired this time unfortunately. The first volume is thoroughly recommended, this second indispensable only for die-hard fans. (BL)