Gemina

Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

The continuing high stakes adventure. Overlap with Illuminae is -- enough to make perhaps reading that one first wise.

Same epistolary point of view. Indeed, after a prologue of a tribunal's proceedings, the first document is a message about the events and the disaster they will be for BeiTech.

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StarChaser

StarChaser by Angie Sage

The final TodHunter Moon story.

It opens with the breakdown of lapis lazuli, which is the source of power for all magic. And around this weaves all the events stemming from earlier stories: the plotting of Tod's aunt, the secrets of the PathFinders, the importance of the keystone, Marissa's conspiracies among the Witches, pranksters among the apprentices, and more.

weakness of research

Some things are harder to research than others.  For instance, I have a scene where a character is regaled with the weaknesses of magical creatures.

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