Tess Pendragon & the Wand of Avalon

This is an ARC from NetGalley and the opinions are all my won.
Ok, so this is a 3.5-4 star for me.
The premise and the cover looked AMAZING (still do of course).
The plot is... kind of messy. I didn't feel anything special about it. Like I wasn't rooting for Tess much or anything. It went too fast at some points, and I didn't understand a lot of things, sadly. It's set in this Arthurian, Chamelout world and Tess is basically a descendant of the wizard Merlin. And she's also the princess of the whole Realm. I dunno why, but I wanted Tess to go to the dark side and stuff. Her riding a dragon, but also being a dragon herself confused me. So did the voices she heard. Her friendship with Kate and Tristan felt weird. It has magic, with these magic wands. I may read the other book in the series not sure. It just was OK, to be honest, not that great, but not bad either. It has potential, if only it was in first person and that it was written more with the flow and be kind of slow sometimes, not to just dump us info at points, and at some others make us confused not knowing what's going on. But as I said, I think it has the potential to be a hit fantasy series for middle graders!