The second volume is linked almost seamlessly from the first and there are hardly any events of the first volume explains, so readers should really get with volume one in the series.
A few days after Raine has fled with his followers to Mid, she sits there and waits for the magician Mids they befeien of their covenant with the Sakhred. But so simple that does not seem to be. And then also disappear even students from the school and magicians Nightshades and Khrysani appear on Mid - Mychael tried Raine stay out of the investigation. And the elves Embassy requests the extradition Raines and Piaras. Some signs indicate that Raine has inherited an enemy of her father. And then comes yet Tamrain to Mid, and Raine learns a lot about the past of sexy Goblin.
Armed & Magical not quite reach the freshness of the previous band (perhaps because the reader already knows now Shearins original world). But it happens so much in this second volume that now not just really bored. Shearins characterizations are managed and their heroine has bite without being bitchy, their heroes are delicious and unusual. "Armed & Magical" will not win a fantasy Nobel Prize, but it provides the easy way fantasy and lots of entertainment.