Septimus didn't suck

and Stephen Chance wrote three more - two of which Septimus and the Minster Ghost and Stone of Offering are headed my way. The strange thing is that even when I started re-reading the book none of it came back to me. Our tiny library back home only had the first book and it never occurred to me that there might be more in the series. So when the next two arrive I really will be reading them for the first time!