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The book is overwritten in parts (such a lot of adverbs!) and a fair amount of time is invested in the early chapters in creating a portrait of one character who then disappears. Still, the two sections which preface the introduction of Nicholas are intense and climactic, and will carry the reader through the less dramatic events which follow. There is quite a lot of violence, and watching men and women as they are turned from good to evil means this is not a book for the faint-hearted. Although the main character is only fifteen, which suggests the book's readership would be between eleven and fourteen, it may be enjoyed more by those at the upper end of that group and teens. There are clear questions left at the end of the book which hint at what will happen in the next two volumes of the series, but there was enough of a resolution to the immediate plot for readers to close the book feeling satisfied.

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