Review for future child reading suitability. Probably 12 years old, writing isn't challenging but some of the stuff the character says is clearly aimed at a slightly older reader. Nice to have a single parent family as the main characters. Bit of bloodshed and violence and a few birds die at the end. There were some interesting ideas but the book didn't give them ample time to be fleshed out and everything had to happen at a breakneck pace for some reason so I never felt we got to know the secondary characters particularly. The writing was fine but if I hadn't been reading this to check it's suitability I would have dnfed it. Really feel like the ending tasks should have been better set up as things the character had learnt along the way but they were basically the same task over and over with different animals and coach cat talking her ear off. The bond with what I assume is supposed to be he  familiar is also never fleshed out because this book needed to be about 50 pages longer to actually build up stakes. Overall it was just fine.