At least this one didn't have a kid getting pulled into the world of the story and having to go along with the hero.

That's about the best thing I can say about it, though. The writing is bad. Really bad. Stephanie Meyer bad. This author wouldn't know a decent simile if it walked in and slapped him in the face. He once writes that the green walls of a corridor "rush by like green slime." What does that even mean?

The story is overly simplified for children (because again, the writers of these books think children are incapable of handling anything overly complex) and reads like a primer for a Saturday morning cartoon series, including the token kid who is only there to be precocious and draw maps of the villains compound (because he apparently knows them so well after delivering things there two or three times).

The characters are completely two-dimensional, getting just enough development to make them alive (but some just barely).

Fun read, quick, but far too simplistic, even for its intended audience. ( )