I started out liking this book, but lost interest when the author began beating the reader over the head with "clues" about how the book ends. I like a good book that offers delicately sprinkled hints, but I had the whole thing figured out by the time the book was a quarter of the way through. For parents: This book offers some pretty graphic descriptions of gore and mayhem. Not for little guys. Narration: Pretty good. Narrator was perpetually upbeat, which didn't fit much of the book, but it wasn't distracting.