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The Celestial Globe

I adored The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski (FSG, 2008), the magical, historical sixteenth-century Bohemian setting most of all.  I've been wanting to go to Prague ever since I read it, and have had to content myself with repeated visits to the Chamber of Wonders at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore (also highly recommended).  The Celestial Globe, Book 2 of the Kronos Chronicles, will be out in April and, according to PW's starred review, it's even better than the first.

But in Globe, Petra and her friends Tomik and Neel travel (separately, it seems) out of Bohemia, on the high seas and through Loopholes to London and Portugal.  I suppose it could be even better?  And I can't wait to read this book.

Anyone been to Prague?