This isn't a bad book, that's not why I stopped reading it. First of all, it's more for Younger Readers than YA, and I just wasn't in the mood. Plus, it's a trilogy and I didn't LURVE it enough to really keep going. It may just be that YA is so over-saturated with trilogies/series that I'm getting burnt out. But if you have kids that like mythology definitely get them into this series!