Ile des sourciers, Anthony Horowitz

This book is kind of embarrasing to put on my 'read' list because it's young adult fiction, and not even very good young adult fiction.

But I read it because my stepson (9) recommended it and I figured if he could read it, I could read it in French.  I have largely stopped reading in French, but this went easily and even gives me the courage to try something adult in French... well, we'll see about that.

I thought the book was not so good - like a rip-off, not-very-interesting version of Harry Potter, but A told me that in fact this was written well before Harry Potter so in fact the rip-off is the other way (although HP is much more interesting).