I only own this book because my cat knocked an entire soda cup onto a public library copy. I'm not sad at all to buy it. 
 I AM sad to see the final book in this wonderful "What if Charles Darwin was a woman and obsessed with dragons WHICH ARE REAL" series. 
 Lady Trent has been a heroine I've been fond of because of her using quick thinking and ethics to solve deadly situations witout it ever being an 80's cartoon moral. How do you wrap up the series to suit that? You stick her a challenge hinging on explicitly those two things, where she'll either get everything she ever wanted or kill, at the ver least, herself. Then you make a wonderful fish-out-of-water situation not until a fantasy version of Shogun Volume 1. To say more would spoil on of the great surprises of the series. 
 It works, and the payoff is brilliant. 
 I'm going to miss my yearly Lady Trent books, but they definately went out on a high note.