I would like to say That I enjoyed the book and never read HAVING Any of the Harry Potter books, I can not compare it to 'em. I thought it was very much like the books of Johanna Trollope goal more gritty. It was, HOWEVER, a bit depressing as it is very realistic to the way Life Has Become in England with drugs, poverty and racism. I think she has-been very brave to write something so different from Harry Potter.