I really enjoyed this book quite a lot. As always, I love a good retelling of stories, and this one was a romantic retelling of the 
 King Thrushbeard 
 fairy tale (which I will proceed to reading the original Grimm brother's fairy tales classic book). 
 While I love medieval high fantasy books, I knew that I was going to love this one too. It had princesses, Kings and Queens, and soldiers, magic, sword fighting, quests, and basically what a high fantasy story is about. It was mostly dealing with romance and watching Rinda grow as a person, from the spoiled princess to a humble and nice Queen, who doesn't find out who she married until the end of the story. 
 It was nice watching her fall in love with Aleksandr even if it did seem a little sped up, it was okay with me since if the story had dragged on their traveling time to get to the throne to get rid of the usurper, it would have seemed too long and boring. The pace the author wrote the book was just right, especially with all the details, action, romance and plot that made this book a good one. 
 Definitely looking forward to Jill Myles writing more fairytale retellings in the future and I will definitely read them no matter the story!