This book reminded me of why I like historical fiction so much. But its major downfall, for me at least, is the unresolved plot holes and open ending. Open endings only work if the conflicts themselves are resolved and you are just left imagining what happened with a certain two characters or where a journey might take them next. But with this one I turned the last page and was really confused. Did I miss something? It was action, action, action up until now and then it just ended. What happened to everyone? Did they get happy endings? It seems like characters that once had a major role in the story were left forgotten and the biggest question of all was not answered either-who was going to be King of Scotland now? Another thing I'm still thinking about is about Albia's powers. Does she have them, does she not? The very last sentence talked about how she was healing her mother's wounds, which of course can be figurative but I am left wondering if this has something to do with her Sight-which was not fully explored either and the fact that she fought that boar and won. Even though it was questioned if she ever fought the bore in the first place. If you think too much about these little things like I do instead of just enjoying the story you might want to stay away. I did love this though, regardless of these little unanswered mysteries.