It's a marketing blurb. People said 'oh my god, he's fifteen and wrote this amazing thing' and never stopped to ask 'wait, haven't i seen something else where a farm boy grows up in the shadow of an evil empire, then accidentally gets his hands on the one secret key that could defeat the empire, then has to take this to some wise old mystic who happens to have known the farm boy's real dad, and offers to train the farm boy to be a mystical knight-thing like the boy's dad, and they go off to fight the empire with a cocky scoundrel type of character, only the wise old mystic gets killed by some evil henchman of the evil emperor, and it turns out (later) that the evil henchman is actually the farm boy protagonist's father'

i dunno... i mean, sounds kinda like its been done before.

then there's anne macafree or whatever her name is. dragon riders of pern, etc.

i mean, i'm not putting down derrivative work. like i said earlier, i enjoy Robert Jordan, warts and all. i enjoy star wars, even though it was basicly a rip off of a couple of japanese films by kurosawa, set in space.

but if you're gonna rip off star wars, at least do it a bit better than this guy did. I mean, it's just blatant.