If you like 2, you'll like 3. Ends on a darker note.

Book 3 in the Troubletwisters series is an entertaining fantasy adventure that involves the two main characters overcoming a series of challenges. There are plenty of eccentric characters and magic as well as elements of humour and enough action to keep the reader interested.
Grandma X is in hospital after a road accident where she was run off the road by an unidentified van. Not having her around to give them advice unsettles Jaide and Jack. There is a fierce rainstorm and they become excited when they see their father, Hector, who appears in the middle of it, on the border of the Rourke property. This is a vast pseudo-castle and was the property of the recently deceased Young Master Rourke. There is strangeness about his death but nothing anyone can “put a finger on”.
Hector can’t come too close to the children because it upsets their powers but he has an important task for them. He needs them to find a golden card, the Card of Translocation. He smuggles a phone to them, something that their mother has does not want them to have yet, and swears them to secrecy.
They begin their search but realise that fighting The Evil is not an easy thing to do. There are so many questions they need to find the answers for as they try to figure out the right thing to do. What really happened to Young Master Rourke and what is his macaw Cornelia trying to tell them? Is there something Rodeo Dave is hiding from them and can he be trusted? How much can they keep secret from their mother? They find many unusual things as they search the Rourke property. Some of it is helpful and some is gruesome. They also have to overcome a number of challenges on their way to solving the puzzle of the card’s location, not least to get past the guards protecting the card as they get closer to their goal. There are many twists and turns until the identity of one person is revealed and then almost everything else fall into place. ( )