So, the used copy of The Shaktra, book two in Christopher Pike's Alosha series showed up, and I finished it yesterday.
We pick up a few weeks after the end of book 1, with Ali realizing she is the incarnation of a Elemental Fairy Queen from a different layer of reality, and her friends Steve and Cindy still processing everything that happened, plus a troll and a leprechaun living with her, it's a bit of a mess, particularly with the police investigating the vanishing of Karl (who we found out was actually one of Ali's fairy subordinates before betraying her), life is full.
Ali decides to return to the Elemental world to try to figure out what's going on there, after first learning that Steve cracked Karl's e-mail and found out he's been talking to someone with a Shaktra (the big bad so far) e-mail domain who lives a town over. (Seems the owner of a gaming company specializing in Apocalyptic games is the own of the account.)
So, while Ali, Farble and Paddy end up crossing back into the Elemental realms, Steve and Cindy wind up digging deeper in to the computer comapny thanks to a run in with the owner's daughter, who is autistic/marked by the Shaktra.
Ali does find out the cave she's using to cross the realms also connects to other places on Earth, as she meets the Shaman Ra from Tanzania in one of the caves.
Steve and Ali find out "Why yes, the owner is a bad lady" after being chained up in a cave under her house.
Now to be fair, I was prepared to get really annoyed with this book when Nemi, the daughter, showed up, since the caretaker said her autism was from a vaccine. However, by the end, we find out that was a lie, so I lost my mad a bit.
Interesting book and series, getting back into the more New Age ideas that populated Pike's other fiction.
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