This young adult fantasy adventure feels like a classic, and I did enjoy reading it.
A young boy discovers he is the heir to a family responsibility to protect a portal to a magical world. He gets drawn in to an adventure with a girl from that world and they discover that they must face dangers to save both the magical world and the real world from terrible destruction.
The story is fun and exciting and manages to not be patronising. It had been compared with Tolkien and Pullman, and for me this book is far short of their works, but still good.
Sarah Wray Writer 