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** spoiler alert ** Very popular book that has a few flaws though imo. First, how comes that the raw emotions are left out - her great aunt dies and she - a child- does not weep? Same later when the sort of the ratatoska is unknown. Apparently feelings are not that important in the story. I was unable to attach myself to the characters due to their lack of depth. Except for Mal and Nighthand (and Gelifen ofc) they all felt kinda flat. Then the story itself had huge potential but it felt badly written more like an addition of several episodes going from one island to the next, from one action scene to the next. I think that even as a kid this might have disturbed me that all went so quickly and there are often not enough explanations and descriptions and comparing this book to great children books like Harry Potter or the Nothern Lights does not do them justice. I think the potential was there it was just not rendered well enough.