To be clear 1) I won this book as part of a Goodreads Giveaway and started reading it when it arrived today & 2) I'm choosing to not finish the book. Maybe I just can't get into the mindset of a young reader, but the writing is very clunky. There's a overuse of commas and new paragraphs. I'm a well versed reader, but I found myself having to reread a lot in simply the first chapter to just understand some sentences because of the awkward structure. It is possible that this is a young reader issue but there were also several times something was implied, or even directly stated, and then immediately restated in the most obvious way for emphasis. The book definitely has potential so I gave it a bump up from 1 star. I teach at a preK-12 school and plan on passing it along to the librarians to let them test it and then recommend it to young readers to see if they like it instead. I'll updat this review if I get feedback.