Ratings: 4 Stars
Genre: YA, Fantasy
ASIN: B07BDQ1592
File Size: 27814 KB
ISBN-10:  1980546592
ISBN-13: 978- 1980546597
Pages: 372

I had a hard time getting into the story. There were many characters that I ofter confused with Ecoland’s exclamatory words and idioms. The scenes changed too rapidly, especially in the beginning as I tried to envision Ecoland. Perhaps an index of characters and terms would have helped.

Once the story got rolling and the adventure developed, the story improved for me. Even so, I was often confused as to what was happening.

I did think that the story was very clever and the magic was inventive. I particularly liked the drawings at the beginning of the chapters and added a fourth star to the rating as a result.

With a better story arch and character development, this could have been a great story. I wonder how I could be so wrong about a book that won seven awards.