A school of magic for kids that is its own original story, mostly. Maybe it's because I read this out loud and didn't take time to absorb it, but I didn't really understand the magic and world building as well as I did with, say, well, Harry Potter. There was some new vocabulary for me in here, but I also found some phrases and descriptions got repetitive, even on the same page. There were definitely some surprises at the end. I don't think I'll continue with the series, but Liam is already halfway through the next one that he got this afternoon.