I wouldn't put this in the genre of YA. It firmly belongs to the Middle Age genre.

Very kiddie like and a bit annoying. I'm sure if I was 10 years old and loved Harry Potter and Pokemon I'd probably get a kick out of this book.

It started off good. Then Fletcher gets to the school and his whole personality changed. Bummer. I was enjoying the Fletcher I was introduced to.

The author had some great ideas, it's just that the whole school thing killed the story for me. I think if Fletcher ran off and got training elsewhere this story would have turned into an adventure fantasy. I feel if the grade level storytelling was brought up to YA this would have been a more exciting book.