I wanted to *love* this book. And I did, for a while. Children with "peculiar" abilities shepherded by an overly-cautious headmistress should strike a major chord with such a big fan of "X-Men." However, there were parts of the narrative that were particularly clunky--specifically all the time devoted to explicitly spelling out (view spoiler)[the rules of this particular book's time travel, only to seemingly break all of those rules in the end. (hide spoiler)] 
 The narrator of the audiobook was great at differentiating the various characters, even infusing some pretty good accents. However, I missed the opportunity to view the photos that play such a huge part in the presentation of this story in physical book form. Supposedly there was a PDF file that came with the audiobook, but it wasn't on any of the 8 discs. (I've requested the book from the library so I can see the photos. Maybe my review will go up a star then?)