I liked this book, but I didn't love it. 
 The writing just wasn't something I enjoyed. It felt like everything was being told to me instead of being shown. The characters were fine, but didn't steal my heart. The plot started out good... got less good somewhere down the road (I did not give a crap when Agnieszka went to the kings court and stayed there for a while. I understand it was important for the plot but I found it dragging and boring), but near the end I started to enjoy the plot again. 
 This just wasn't my cup of tea I guess. 
 Everything was all right, but nothing more than that. just all right. I'm quite sad I didn't enjoy this book more.