The cover is colourful and appealing but maybe too childish for middle school readers.
I loved fantasy and science fiction as a child and I can see Jess French is providing a beautiful balance between concepts familiar to a terrestrial child of the 21st century and those of her imagined world. Right from the start the characters and settings can be pictured and the reader is immediately on Kaylo and Faro's side. And feeling the frustrations of Alethea and Rustus.
I loved fantasy and science fiction as a child and I can see Jess French is providing a beautiful balance between concepts familiar to a terrestrial child of the 21st century and those of her imagined world. Right from the start the characters and settings can be pictured and the reader is immediately on Kaylo and Faro's side. And feeling the frustrations of Alethea and Rustus.