This was a slow start for me and didn‘t really pike my interest until I began to realise who the characters were becoming and where the story might eventually be heading to. Being a story with mainly male characters and seldom a female was a bit difficult to adjust to knowing Frances Hodgson Burnett‘s other classic stories. The farher was almost too good to be true, the naivety of the two boys got to me alittle and their adventure across Europe was perhaps a bit farfetched, all in all it had some fairytale qualities to it and did keep me mesmerized towards the end.