Great premise for a fun fantasy, but the execution just did not work for me.

First of all, I COULD NOT get past the fact that a 17-year-old male character (who was really not that age...which you understand if you've read the book) was basically hitting on a 10-year-old girl. Gross. In fact, I took a quarter star off my rating purely because this age gap "romance" existed.

The plot itself was okay, but a bit bland. The plot seemed fairly basic and lacking in detail and the characters were pretty flat. Though it is a middle grade novel, it still could have done with more development. You can have a good kids' book and still give it some depth. This just didn't feel like it really lived up to the potential it had.