I'll make it known that I don't think this is a bad book, it's more that I couldn't really connect to the story or the characters and I think it mostly just reminded me why I struggle to read middle-grade. It's not objectively bad, in fact, if I were ten years younger, I probably would have adored this; just now, I look for more from the books I read! Now you're probably wondering why on earth I read this if I knew I wasn't going to enjoy it, but to be honest, I kind of thought I would. Roshani Chokshi is one of my favorite authors and I love(d?) Rick Riordan's books, so I figured her writing one of the Riordan Presents mythology books would be wonderful! And frankly, the most wonderful thing about this book was the mythology.

But anyway, another thing is that I think if I read this in a physical copy instead of an ebook on my phone, I wouldn't have found it as boring (I have a weird thing about ready fantasy as an ebook).

-Book Hugger