Sort of a post-modern Harry Potter -- set in current day New York -- about a kid who grew up with fantasy books (sort of thinly-veiled Narnia), but pretty soon gets pulled into a Hogwarts-style school for magic, somewhere in Upstate NY. Like a lot of the novels I've been blogging about lately -- my multiple-travel-weeks-stash-of-pulp-sci-fi -- this one is a fine book to pass the time, but ultimately not that much fun and definitely not very memorable. High concept is great; execution is a little boring.