I read this in a day. I enjoyed myself. 
 Three things however 
 1) WAAAAAY too many characters 
 2) Would have liked a story just about the main characters Illarion and Addie, not enough time is spent building their relationship 
 3) Basically half this novel is just a retelling of the last novel from a different character POV and I fucking hate that. Ms. Kenyon has been doing that a lot lately and it's sloppy writing, like she's making her own fanfiction