This book is really well written and obviously very well researched. I am a bit older than the target audience! but I would have loved this if I had read it as a teenager and I enjoyed it now as a nice easy read. I haven't read STAGS so it did take me a little while to get into this book as there was no recap of what had happened in the previous story. Once I had got into it the story was really gripping as there are lots of little mysteries throughout and plenty of interesting characters. I would have liked for more things to be cleared up by the end of the book and I didn't feel the story quite worked as a stand alone read. I will definitely look out for the next in the series as I really want to know what is going on!