The fact that he started writing this book too early really shows. Half of the ideas in the books can be directly found in other works, and the elements that are original are mostly underdeveloped or just plain dumb. A few of his metaphors and such didn’t make an ounce of sense. Characters are cliched and hard to connect with. The names that he actually made up himself look as though he just slapped random keys and stuck in some extra vowels to come up with them. The book probably could have been better if he had at least waited until tenth grade English to start on it. I would hope so, at least. :|