I've given this series a good go, now, and I think it's safe to say I think it's pretty average. That being said, I'm not the target audience here, so that could well have an impact on things. I expect that kids who read this series find the tone very appealing, but to me it just comes across as flippant and slightly irritating. And as much as I generally like the two main character - because they are likeable kids - they are kids, and I'm sorry, but I cannot take seriously a (barely) thirteen year old girl in a love triangle with a dying teenager and a god, I really can't. Perhaps that'd appear more believable if this were a more solidly young adult series, but as it is... ludicrous. Every time the story veered back to that child's love life I rolled my eyes.

Yes, I'm old. Tough shit. It's bad enough love triangles slink their awful selves into lots of the YA and adult fantasy I read, I don't need it seeping into middle grade as well.