It was an entertaining enough novel, but nothing really grabbed me as being entirely unique or inventive.

I don't understand how the author got away with summarizing the storyline of Chronicles of Narnia and calling it something else and that somehow counts as inventive. I guess if you say the book is, "Mixing the magic of beloved children's fantasy classics (from Narnia and Oz to Harry Potter and Earthsea)", you can write whatever you want, as long as you add sex and cursing. I was engaged enough to really want to know how the book ended though, so it wasn't all bad.

The more I think about this novel, especially the characters though, the more it makes me sad. The characters are these post adolescent kids who seem terribly unhappy with their lives, at the end of the novel I don't see much change or hope for their circumstances.