If you are a fan of magic and mystery and old age traditions then, you should read this book. If you loved "Merlin", "The Lord of the Rings", "Chronicles of Narnia", then this book is a must read - it talks about magic and mystery and most important of all, mankind's moral deterioration - how greed and selfishness leads to so many other problems.
To be honest, once i started reading this book, i never put it down until i finished it, so you might wanna, pick out the weekend for reading this book, that is if you have a family who might keep disturbing you.
This book has 400 or so pages, i read the prologue, the acknowledgements and everything in every single page of this book, the map even, not wanting to miss anything as it is a very interesting read. You have to read it to find out.
Better than the much thicker novels of "Harry Potter".