** spoiler alert ** 
 I liked this book a good deal. The one thing I didn't like was the ending... It was a bit weird. Not that weird is a bad thing, this was just... Well... I don't really know how to describe it. 
 I liked the original plot of orphan children living in an abandoned theater and then, Scipio, providing for them. Even if he was lying the whole time. 
 That was one thing I thought was clever. How Scipio lied about his identity. That might have been my very, favorite part. 
 I do understand his want to grow up as well. So, the more I think about it, the more I do like the ending. It just took a while to grow on me.