This book didn’t grip me the way I expected it to. Maybe it was because of the large role that baseball played in the story, but I’m not so sure about that - I like sports more than my husband does! I found that I often had to look back to previous chapters to remind myself of certain elements in the fantasy world of the book, so maybe that’s why I didn’t enjoy it that much - the world didn’t seem organic to me in the way that other kids’ fantasy books have.