To a select few, it may take a few chapters to really get involved in this story, but once you do it is a remarkable page turner! It has made a reader out of two kids in my acquaintance who I never thought would be a seventh grader and ninth grader to show the generation gaps it can bridge, and my Aunt, who is not a fan of fantasy, finished it in record time! Its sequel, Inkspell, is equally enchanting, and the audio version brings the characters to live in a way that gained the author's approval - a compliment if there ever was one!