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As with the first book the second in the series was just as great. I love the whole concept of their gifts having to do with saving and protecting art because I believe art is so important. This book was told from Georgia's point of view and with her having feelings of not being good enough and being jealous of Vincent's in her opinion better gift. I'm excited for the third book to be released.

I loved this book. This book in the series is written from Georgia's perspective. For the longest time, Georgia has been the only child in the family who has had a Gift. Now that Vincent also has a Gift, his gift as an Artist is better than hers as a Navigator. Georgia is tired of everyone focusing on training Vincent, but the adults won't let them go on any real missions. When tragedy strikes their family, Georgia and Vincent are the only ones who will be able to help and must learn to work together to bring back their missing family members. Will Georgia and Vincent be able to help their family and the Restorationists organization at large, or will they fail and inadvertently let the Distortionists win? This is such a great middle grades series that those who love The Chronicles of Narnia will enjoy.

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Another inventive book in this kids' series! Very neat the way they are able to travel!! People are not being honest in this book, and it causes some difficult relationships and situations. More intrigue and mystery. Now I'm waiting for book 3!!!
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This was a great sequel in the Restorationists series, it had that feel that I enjoyed from the first book and thought it worked with the world that was created. I enjoyed going back into this world and getting back to these characters. I enjoyed how good Carolyn Leiloglou wrote this and left me wanting to read more.

The second in a series about youngsters who are able to travel into paintings. What a clever idea! The author uses these books as an opportunity to expose readers to concepts about fine art like perspective, as well as specific artists (e.g. Georgia o'Keeffe andVan Gogh), museums (e.g. the Louvre and the Gardner), and specific paintings (e.g. The Tree of Crows by Friedrich). In theory, this could be a good way to get kids excited about art and interested in reading more about it on their own. In reality, all of these references and inclusions feel almost like a checklist to get as much in there as possible, so the story suffers because it's being built around all of those elements. It's always a tough balance to create content that includes a lot of outside elements, and in this case, the needle tipped too far to one side. The result is that the inclusions of those elements (painting titles, artists, etc) don't feel organic to the story itself.

I also found the writing a bit dry flat throughout. The characters didn't have particularly distinct personalities from one another. There was a nice variety in characters' ages (e.g. a grandmother, parents, etc...not just children) and diversity (some dialogue is written in Spanish; there are references to Indian culture).

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this eARC for unbiased review. This review will be cross-posted to my social media accounts closer to the book release date.

A couple of things: In the first 4-5 chapters, there was too much exposition between dialogue, to the point that I had to keep backtracking to make sense of the conversation. I suggest you create a prologue and throw all that backstory in there so you don't slow down the plot Second, the term 'after all' was used by Georgia but you also had Adelaide say it. Don't. And third, the parents' role was not that useful. I would have used Gramps from the beginning and ditched the parents. He is much more colorful and interesting. Overall, I would love the story if these things were rectified. I also don't like the title. It doesn't seem to fit the story.
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