Four Stars
It is certainly not a happy story, as it says in the front cover, on the back, at the beginning, around the middle, and close to the end. If you just must have that happy ending, don't read it.
Otherwise, get on with it. The vocabulary in the book is refreshingly full, and in each instance it explains the word's intended meaning in the sentence, for young readers and those who don't know the word.
The villains are delightfully evil, and truly everything seems to go wrong, until they save things in the nick of time. I expect similar themes for the next books.
It's the good characters with whom I have my only small complaint. They came off in some instances as ether rather dispassionate or mildly flat. Flat as in shallowly developed, could use more fleshing out.
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