The story was fine, but I'm a bit disappointed in the 'amount' of story. It felt like the book was super light on content ("it's already over?!" - slightly disgruntled children). Maybe it's a ploy to stretch out the series so folks will buy more books? I don't know but it took like no time to fly through the book, and I feel like I remember previous books being more substantial. Regardless, the kids and I are looking forward to seeing how the story develops and how they get out of this current mess.