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Having read all of the books from Deltora Quest 1 by Emily Rodda which is a while back now, I have now recently read her other two volumes called Deltora Quest 2 and Deltora Quest 3. And again like her first volume that is called Deltora Quest 1 these books are published by Scholastic and as this is a review of Deltora Quest 2 its ISBN is 978-1-86504-942-7.

This book is also three books in one, and the three stories are titled: The Cavern of The Fear, The Isle of Illusion, and The Shadowlands. And this book follows on after the events that happened in Book 1 as Lief is now the King of Deltora and he wears the belt all the time and in doing so he protects all of Deltora. But in this book he is spending a lot of time with Doom and the library. And there has also been a couple of attempts on King Lief’s life as the Shadow Lord wants Lief to remain childless.

However after the failed attempts these people kill themselves, so there are no prisoners and now King Lief keeps more to himself and Jasmine is getting frustrated about being cooped up in a palace, and is annoyed with Lief as he seemed to decide to isolate himself from Barda and her too. And she also finds out that the palace gossip is that King Lief has gone to Tora in search for a wife. But before Jasmine decides to get away from the palace as she thinks she has a younger sister who is called Faith ( which she discovered when she discovered a room in the library that had a table with a crystal in it) she then goes to the place that was her parents house before her parents switched identities with Lief’s parents.

There she discovers a note that someone has wrote in code so she realises that someone has been there quite recently. As the coals where a blacksmith works were still warm.

This book is also very intriguing, as does Jasmine really have a younger sister called Faith? Or is it a scheme that has been thought up by the Shadow Lord because he knew that she would take the bait?

And also is King Lief really looking for a wife in Tora, when he knows that his country is in turmoil because of the Shadow Lord? Also while King Lief is searching for the three missing pieces that when put together it is known as: The Pirran Pipe. As the reason why he needs the Pirran Pipe is because the Deltora Belt cannot be taken out of its realm.

And the musical instrument will help Lief rescue the people that he rules over (that are now prisoners of the Shadow Lord). As to get to them Jasmine, Lief, and Barda need to enter The Shadowlands where the Shadow Lord is known to be.

 We discover too that a world exists that is below the world we read about in this book and that there is a person who is some sort of adventurer that is called Doran “The Dragonlover.”

And Doran is also a friend to the people that Lief has to get the three missing pieces that make up the Pirran Pipe from.

They also let him borrow it because he, Jasmine, and Barda succeed in getting the pieces back. It also explains in the book why it was taken apart in the  first place.  

Also another thing about Doran is that he not only went on adventures to discover things, but also wrote about them in books that are known as: The Deltora Annals which up until now were thought to be lost.