Fast paced action/fantasy story for 12+ readers. Jane Doe has had a hard life so far - made to live in a cellar with her dad and regarded with suspicion by her fellow villagers. Events then cause her to flee into the magical Manor, a building that encompasses many worlds and has ever changing rooms (definite Harry Potter influences can be seen in the book). Jane is at the start of a dangerous quest that will save the world and she has heart stopping adventures throughout this first book of the series. Her burgeoning romance with Violet, a friend from childhood, is sensitively dealt with and there's a real cliffhanger of an ending to keep kids reading on.

Jane Doe and her father are pariahs io the island on which they live, and Jane is blamed for all the troubles the islanders experience. But Jane appears to be able to control earthquakes, and is the subject of a vision of the future which predicts her role in saving Bluehaven.
This story is full of swashbuckling action and the interior of the Manor appears to have been heavily influenced by Indiana Jones. It's definitely a story to read for the plot and the banter (Jane has a good line in dry asides) - any reader wanting the insights into the morals, politics and ethics of our own societ,y which some dystopian novels can provide, will be disappointed.
I felt that the book concluded too abruptly, and even if a novel is part of a series or a chronicle, for me it still needs to finish with some sort of resolution.