This started as a promising story. I couldn't put it down in the beginning. It was a real story about a real boy in an exciting, intriguing situation. Then, somewhere in the middle, it just got weirder and odder and more confusing. And the stranger it got, the less interested I felt. It was difficult to visualize a world where every single thing (everything!) is unfamiliar. People don't look like people. Buildings don't look like buildings. It was hard to care about the side characters, because they were so bizarre. I love fantasy and science fiction, but this storyteller forgot something very important. The reader needs something familiar to help them relate to the story and characters. I definitely won't read the rest of this series. Blah!  Way too strange and confusing!
It was hard to care about the side characters, because they were so bizarre