Maybe I am beeing a bit harsh with my rating but I've read decent YA before and for me this isn't it. I found the writing simplistic; I’ve been reading a lot of literary fiction which is extremely different and I know young adult will be simpler but I’ve read other young adult books before which I thought were much better. It’s very much a children’s x-men but I never thought x-men was particularly too adult in the first place. 

The plot proceeds extremely fast with something happening every page or two, which can be nice for parts of the book but there’s almost no pause in the action to just have a bit of reflection on the characters. The characters themselves are a positive point, with a nice amount of diverse personalities and they do have depth and I did get some emotional attachment to them by the end of the book. I won’t be picking up another of the series, and won’t seek out the author, but if I see one of his more adult books on a shelf when visiting somewhere I might pick it up to see if it’s better.