There was enough of one not to make me throw the book out the window from boredom, but it really wasn't worth speaking of, and there wasn't even any climax! I'm serious, there was absolutely no climax, just a set-up for the next book. Other than that, though, the setting seemed pretty accurate. It actually wasn't, but the characters' surety about the ease in which they got through being a trap by their enemy seemed pretty idiotic to me, especially since they had a really smart guy with them who would've known how hard it would be to travel from Mexico to the US. (I could look it up, but I just had a bad experience Google-searching something and am not anxious to repeat it.) The setting seems pretty accurate, except for one character's comment about how it would be pretty hard going from Mexico to the US. This particular book is set mainly in modern United States and Mexico, with some in a very small country called Tuvalu out in the Philippines, which I'm honestly not sure exists outside of Michael Vey's world. In short, his writing isn't the best you'll find out there, but it's certainly nothing to be sneezed at. However, the sentences flow well, and he has mildly good descriptions, though he's not so good at making the reader feel the character's pain.
He tries to makeĀ it deep POV in his books, but it isn't. Richard Paul Evans isn't the greatest at deep point-of-view. I'm hoping Richard Paul Evans will step up his game in the next book and make it better than even the first three.
Instead, I got a big let-down and a set-up for the last two books. I was expecting this book to pick up the pace some more. The Hunt for Jade Dragon, while still being a great book, felt like filler. And if you know our family and how we rarely buy any of our books new, you would realize how much we like this series. My sisters and I have gone to the store to buy the Michael Vey books right when they came out after we read the first one from the library.