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Simon receives a message that his father might be in trouble, so he and Nicola travel back home to discover his father, who is a penguin-like demon, has been playing with wing-like inventions and trying to fly. Simon helps his father with another type of invention and ensures he can safely test it, while Nicola learns about Simon's childhood. Later, Simon finds a rare mummified demon arm that he really wants to buy and gift to a friend who studies rare mummies. He sets up shop and tries to sell his wares to make enough money, but Nicola spies another customer buy it. She spends her whole day chasing down the customer and trying to learn more about him to get the arm back for Simon, but ends up being known around town as the little girl obsessed with mummies! When Nicola finds a rare item that could lead her to clues about her mom, she tries to track down the shop who sold it her to discover more about her mom's time in the demon's world.
This is such a cute story with a little witch who gets into trouble sometimes but ultimately cares about Simon enough to run herself ragged for him. We almost found out a bunch about her mom but it turns out it was a demon - instead we found out some little snippets, which were still sweet and connected Nicola in a beautiful way to her mom. Simon also had some heartfelt moments with his dad that helped Nicola also have a sense of belonging in her new little (quite literal) found family. There is a lot to love about these supposedly evil creatures who seem to be just getting by and only sometimes trying to trick or swindle one another.
Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 3-8 Reviews of previous volumes in this series: vol 1 Publisher: Seven Seas Publication Date: February 18, 2020 ISBN: 9781645052081 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Suitability: Middle School, Manga, Slice Of Life, Iyashikei, Friendship, Magic, Seven Seas
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