3.5/5. The characters are amazing. I personally really enjoy the company of Crow. The story in general is good, with solid characters, good and simple universe, strong value/moral behind it, etc. The only flaw, and it's unfortunately a big one, is that the action part are too long, lack of originality and are repetitive. Not only the characters had to go through a series of challenge (which is not original and repetitive in itself) but when it's done... they have to go back again and basically go through all those challenges again. That should have been done differently or just cut some part of it. Anyway, even if it look very negative, this is really a nice kids book (around 10 years old), that I enjoy reading, even if it wans't perfect, it was entertaining and in the end this is the most important part.