This book reminds me a lot of Harry Potter. That isn’t a bad thing, mostly because I love HP. What annoyed me about this book was the constant pop-culture references. They added nothing to the story and only severed to make the reader go, “Hey! I got that reference.” It makes me feel like the writer doesn’t think they can stand on their own.
The other thing I could do without was the scraping metal sound effect they used to chapter transitions. It was way to loud and very unpleasant to hear.
Otherwise the story was solid and narration was great.