Do I recommend? Yes. 
 Lovely characters? Adorable. 
 The ending? Just gives up. 
 Was it basically sad the whole time but made me giggle? You betcha. 
 I have such mixed feels. Roald Dahl is such a twisted, clever man. I enjoy his books as an adult. (I only read Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so please gimme some slack on my perspective lol). If I was younger I'd love how strange this story is. I mean, I still love how strange it is, but it's almost not strange enough. The action scenes were too short and the meeting of the Witches took FOREVER. (I think he was trying to be funny with that aspect though, but I found it mostly annoying) 
 I just, with the boy, we do not truly know if he ends up ok. Then the end was just so misleading. 
 "Oh let's go do this after what we went through. Let's also talk about it most of the time before actually doing it.... 
 Ok bye!" 
 Like.. what.....? Why would there be such a lengthy middle and the end just.. stopped. I was wanting another 10 pages at least. The BFG and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory definitely ended leaving me feeling accomplished and satisfied. I love this story but it did not end well at all. I'm hoping the next Dahl book I read will have a punch to it.