A lovely book. 
 Similar to East, but with a less historical feel to it. 
 Also, there's a faun, a gargoyle, and cooking salamanders, and the heroine has a pet wolf! How can you not enjoy that? 
 And I love the imagery of the castle made of ice; it was beautiful and eerie, but was less "blinding" than the similar castle in Ice. 
 Highly recommended. 
 Update: has anyone else noticed that the newer cover for this book (I suppose redone so it matches the author's Princess series) is STUNNING? I almost rebought the book just for that, but since I'm poor with limited self space, settled on just copying the cover pic to a flash drive.