I really enjoyed reading through this book, it felt a lot more cozy and close, and less bleak than the other ones in the series I think, it was nice to see Bren really starting to have some more successful relationships, and it just felt good. Like always in these books though, there is a lot of politics, and the book is written in a more literary fashion, which does have some nice turns of phrase like "The sun slipped over the horizon" and stuff like that, but it somehow really tires me out to read things like that for a long time :p