I was so prepared to give this 5 stars and to share it with my nine year old son.
It was gripping and fanciful and heart-wrenching and hopeful ... I thought.
And then came the "end."
I howled out loud and scared my cat and got strange looks from my son's father while I hollered "what kind of ending was THAT?!?"
I suppose, though, that was kind of the point ... but it's not something I would share with my nine year old and since this is supposedly a "middle grade" book and I can't for the life of me imagine letting a middle grader read it ... not a 5 star book anymore.
(I received this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.)
