Song of the Wanderer continues the story of Cara. This time Cara is tasked by the unicorn queen to go find her grandmother and bring her back to Luster. So Cara sets off with a small glory of unicorns made up of Belle, a female fighting unicorn, Finder, a large unicorn who is himself a wanderer, and Moonheart, the uncle of Lightfoot, as well as the Squijum and Thomas the Tinker. Cara must first find the geomancer, a sorceress who is adept with earth magic, who will find Cara a path back to her grandmother. Unfortunately the path is a dangerous one. Along the way Cara meets up with friends new and old.
Song of the Wanderer is a good book, but it isn't as good as Into the Land of the Unicorns. For one thing, Song is longer and at times it feels like it takes a lot longer to get to its point. For another thing, there are a lot of characters (there's something like ten + characters in Cara's party by the end of the book), which also made it harder to give them all enough time at the forefront of the story (I remember writing a story like this years ago where I had such a large party it was unwieldy to write!); Into the Land is a lot better because the party of characters is smaller and so you get to know all of them much better.
As I said though, it is still a good story. Some crazy things happen which lead staight into book three, Dark Whispers, which I am really looking forward to reading for the first time ever!
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