4.43 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

First and foremost, I love this series. It's what got me back into reading, and there's clearly a wealth of history and opportunities for more rich stories to be told.

My only gripe is that no matter what order you read this and The Priory of the Orange Tree, either will contain major spoilers for the other.

Having read Priory first, it was immediately clear who Canthe was and her motivations which made it difficult to buy into the story involving her.

Even despite that, I think the writing here is even better than Priory though I preferred the story of Priory more. Both fantastic, must-reads in different ways.
adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

bri9219's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 52%

This book is bad. It needs to be looked at buy an editor and copy editor. Multiple times their was stupid spelling errors i.e. 3 times I found the word sax when it was supposed to be axe.
Author had no clear plot line as this story was meandering in all directions at once.
The author made essentiall  all female characters lesbians, came across as pandering verse actually exploring the development of relationships. 
This author owes 90% of her earnings to her cover artist as that is the reason this book sold in the first place. 
medium-paced
adventurous challenging inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous inspiring mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated