The second book of the Helka trilogy starts exactly where the first book ended. We continue our story against a new antagonist called Zemúr, new travels of our heroes now different parts of Hungary, mainly the Bükk mountains in the North-East. The Hungarian prose continues to be effortlessly magnificent, it is a joy to read from beginning to end. I had more issues with the story this time, as it remains again a very linear plot, very similar to the first book. While it is suitable to the age group of 10+ (I think some elements of this book make this book 10+, and not 8+ as the first one), there's very little addition or new approach compared to the first. It uses the well worn formula of a children's fantasy book and does not have anything to make it memorable above that. The final confrontation with Zemúr is also quite poorly handled unfortunately. It is still a good book, well worth reading after the first one, but as a book itself, it does not improve upon the first one at all, instead just takes the same formula and weaves another similar story around it.