Cute. My son absolutely loved it and wanted to know right away if there was a second one. We listened to it, narrated by Neil Patrick Harris himself. The themes of family, honesty, and friendship are all prevalent and positive. Each character has an issue that makes him/her a misfit, but each character also has a strength that helps them work together to bring down the dastardly villain.
Sprinkled in the book are also little side notes of how to do magic (sorry Mr. Houdini, I meant to say "illusions") tricks.