I was just as eager to see how Nick and Laurie would resolve some of the issues in their relationship as I was to see how they would fix their giant situation. The result is tension that impacts not only the plot of the novel, but the characters themselves. Now Nick and Laurie have no choice but to agree to help Taloa, along with dealing the giant sitting in their backyard.Once again, Black does a fantastic job of melding together fairy adventures with family problems that are real issues for many children in today's society. Nick wants to refuse, but that becomes difficult when Taloa summons a wakened giant with her singing.

After rescuing Taloa, the water nixie, she entreats them to find her missing sisters. Suddenly they are bound together in their secret knowledge. he has to enlist the only person who has any knowledge about this crazy stuff: his stepsister. He dashes outside, only to discover that the body is not Laurie's, and is not even human. He skips out on Laurie because her antics become too far-fetched for him to handle, but later that night, when he sees a body on the lawn, he worries that Laurie may have been hurt in his absence. When Nick finds a four leaf clover (which Laurie told him will give him the Sight) he decides to keep it a secret. Laurie owns the Spiderwick Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You, and is using information from the book to search for clues to any fairy presence. His dad wants Nick to play nice, though, so he has to join her on her fairy hunt through their new housing development that his dad is building. Worst of all, she seems excited about the new marriage, and Nick just wishes that it had never happened.

He likes his old room and Laurie has taken it. Nick likes to play video games and Laurie is into fairies. Especially since Laurie, his sister, is his age and completely unlike him. He and his older brother Jules and his father have dealt with the death of Nick's mom, but now Nick's dad is moving on in fact, he has remarried, and Nick is not too happy about having a new stepmother and stepsister. The third person narrator focuses on Nicholas's perspective. This trilogy begins with a new family, different from the Grace children in character and personality, but similar in messed up family dynamics. My Spiderwick-loving heart was delighted to discover that Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi had teamed up again for another small series set in the Spiderwick world.

The Nixie's Song by Tony DiTerlizzi