A cute fantasy that is more aimed at middle grade readers. Some YA errs on the side of angst, and some on the side of sunny naiveté. This book is one of the latter. The protagonist has no dark side and too many heavy moments are resolved very quickly for plot reasons. In a book like this, one or two convenient fixes are expected, but it seemed that there was an infinite supply of dei ex machina to provide everything from the ideal weapons to a swift forgiving of deep betrayal.