Lily

Lily is set sometime after the Rose books, probably by a few decades. Magic has been outlawed and the old magical families are under close watch by the Queen's Men. Lily's mother is plotting revenge against the queen, using Lily's sister Georgie as a weapon, so Lily and her sister flee to London in search of their father.

Lily is a pretty standard little girl protagonist. Georgie is annoyingly waif-like. She has good reason to be that way but it still gets annoying. They are also accompanied by a magical talking pug, Henrietta, who's pretty adorable and charming. Henrietta isn't as all-knowing and powerful as Rose's Gustavus, instead being barely more worldly than the sisters. They eventually team up with a clever stage magician and the white rabbit on the back cover becomes relevant.

It's an okay book but if I didn't already know I like the author's work I may not have stuck with it. The ending is unsatisfying and doesn't wrap much up. Hoping to find out what happened between the Rose series and this series and hoping a grown-up Rose turns up are the main things that will push me to read the next book.