Ah, unadulterated chick-lit. Fantasy chick-lit even! Mercedes Lackey started a new "universe" series, all set in the Five Hundred Kingdoms. I think the first one, The Fairy Godmother, was the best. Basically all the novels tell the story of some mixed up fairy tale. This book dealt with more Russian folklore, which I don't know much about, so that was kinda fun. It also had a short bit where one of the characters travels to a distinctly Japanese island. Overall, the book was okay, but the plot dragged a bit. It also seemed like certain elements of the story were just repeated over, and over. Like the fact that the male lead is a Songweaver, or something, and it gets mentioned in, like, every chapter. The romance is cute, and it's nice to see mentions of characters from the previous books.