Well, for a start I couldnt finish this book. I found the characthers ok, some were interesting enough, Udo and Poppy being my two favourite characthers.[I thought Poppy was a strange name to call a man!} Other names are strange too some difficult to pronounce, Im a fast reader so I just skimmed over them. It did start off a good story, I liked how it is told from Flora's POV, and she is an interesting, likeable funny character and easy to relate to. It started interesting when she found Valefor in an abandoned part of Crackpot Hall, but after about 13 chapters into it the story seemed to drift away from the original story of helping and restoring Valefor and seemed to tilt moreso towards the military and rescuing people from jail etc. after that I just didnt like it, it was full of needless details about the army and military I wasent interested in and I would have liked it alot more had Wilce stuck more to the point of Flora restoring Valefor. Not a bad story at all, I did like some aspects in it such as the Quetzals and the good charcthers, its just that I like a story to stick to the original point.