A good readalike for Percy Jackson fans, who may enjoy the mythology aspect, but overall it fell a little flat to me. I think I was onboard up until the second half, where the exposition dumping was starting to lay on a little too hard and the climax was just ridiculous with all its interruptions and desperate one liners. There were many moments were I wanted to scream at Charlie "How could you possibly miss that or let that go unquestioned?" Everything just wrapped up too quickly and lacked a good focus. The book itself wasn't totally unbearable, but I don't see myself continuing with the series.