It’s always dangerous to enter a fantasy world in the second book of a series.  There’s so much the reader is left trying to piece together and figure out as they go along.  As a stand alone, I would probably only give this a “Additional Purchase,”  but it was a good enough book for me to want to seek out the rest of the series to go with it (the first book, Happenstance Found, has been nominated for the Young Reader’s Choice award in 2012).  Happenstance is a boy with some kind of power he doesn’t quite understand, mysterious past he can’t remember, and an invented name that’s recently been invented for him.  Apparently in the first book he stumbled into the care of the man who is currently serving as his guardian:  Lord Umber, and adventurer of the first order, who will go to most any lengths to seek out and expand his knowledge of magical creatures.  As they set out together on one mission (in response to a mysterious plea for help), it seems to unfold into one adventure after another, with danger lurking around every bend.