I liked this book more than I thought I would. When I started it I really thought it was going to be an old classic Enid-Blyton type of thing (nothing against Enid Blyton, its just that her way of writing is not exactly exciting) but instead it was a really good book! Well researched, exciting. Not perfect, and I didn't like the ending much, but good. I liked all the characters because they were strong, really imaginable and you get to know them well. The book was well written enough to make you (or me, anyway) feel emotions about what you were reading. Quite different from modern books, something different and I like that.