I tried to read this book – for a while, it was a bedtime book for my son, and I read parts of it by myself after he lost interest. In the end, though, I decided not to throw good time after bad, and I gave up. I just didn’t find it at all engaging – the characters annoyed me, and the story seemed kind of, well, lame. Maybe this is a gem in disguise and I just didn’t “get” it, but I found this book highly disappointing.