I bought this book because I wanted to break into the fantasy novel genre with something that wasn't ultra famous. In all reality, it is a fantasy novel for the Christian book genre readers, but it was disguised as a regular fantasy book novel. I didn't appreciate that very much. The strong religious undertones took away from the novel (I actually completed it) but the discriptions and the writing were terrible. Perry is too wordy with the language and almost nothing had a physical discription beyond the clothes one wore or the kind of stone at the locale.It is a good book for youths or people looking to buy different kinds of Christian novels, but it is not a fantasy book for fans of that genre.