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I began to dislike the book early in the beginning, because Meliara has the same characteristics of other heroines that bother me. She is small, but feisty and tough, but small, and even though she's small, she fights. Did you understand that she is short and skinny? You understand that she's small, right?

Despite the fact that Meliara is constantly being reminded/reminding us that she is small and feisty, the book was hard to put down, though I don't really understand why. I guess I still wanted to know what was going to happen, even though I was fairly sure about the outcome.

I liked few of the characters. Meliara's brother Bran needs to keep reminding us that he is an ignorant hick that now has a title (but he is still ignorant, and he is still a hick, even though he has a title). Parts of it are very predictable and unlikely, but if someone is reading fantasy, they should understand that unlikely things are going to happen.

I couldn't read Shevraeth's first name without at least smirking, because it sounds like the name of the man in a romance novel. Vadanric.

All in all, parts of it aren't as great as they could be, but I will probably read more of her books to see if they get better.