Review: Fall of the Argosi by Sebastien de Castell

Fall of the Argosi is the sequel to Way of the Argosi. Even though I haven’t read the first in this series, I understood everything extremely clearly. In my opinion Fall of the Argosi is just beautiful, from the writing, to the characters, even the illustrations. The plot is even better.
We follow our hero, Ferius Parax, who is new to the ways of Argosi. The Argosi are a tribe of non-magical, card-making tricksters. But Ferius must learn the way of the Argosi to survive. Whilst she’s travelling, she spots a deaf boy, named Binta, fleeing from two mentally unstable priests. She decides to help by defending the boy from these individuals, but soon learns that they weren’t crazed but infected by a curse known as the Red Scream. She hasn’t heard of this curse before, but she will soon learn a great deal about it. She travels to a nearby town, only to meet a horde of infected people. She flees and meets a woman by the name of Rosie. United, Ferius, Rosie and Binta must now control and tackle the Red Scream. But not all is as it seems. Ferius uncovers lots of secrets: many nasty and deadly.
This book is brilliant. Although I did think that the ending was a bit rushed, the plot and especially the writing style makes up for it.
I would highly recommend this book to all YA fantasy fans, or even as a book to begin with for YA fantasy.

 Dylan Keane, 13