I think I would have loved this way more if I'd read it when I was younger! 

I'd love to read a more adult-leaning version of this story, actually. The 'bad guys' were strongly implied to be behaving in some pretty dark ways, beyond the usual slightly cartoonish and undefined 'evil' you get in YA book villains. However, because the story is aimed at a younger audience I feel like it sort of has to skip away a bit from fully filling out the 'evilness' it suggested in those characters. Its not that I want to read a version with these characters committing all kinds of monstrosities 'on screen,' (or on page), but the way it was implied and then shied away from left it feeling weirdly superficial. That might just be me though!