**SPOILERS BELOW. DON'T BE OFFENDED IF YOU KEPT READING AND SPOILED SOMETHING.) 
 I really enjoyed this book. I loved the fresh take on magic and how it is used throughout the book. Yes there were a few things that you just knew what was going to happen (like Sepp turning against them or Avry and Kerrick finally hooking up or the fact that of course Avry can't stay dead, it would be kind of hard to have a trilogy if the main character died/stayed dead in the first book) but on a whole this book isn't the same-as-everything-else-out-there plot. And lets be honest you can only read the same plot so many times before you want to take a dive off the high board with no water in the pool. 
 So I loved the book to the point it was really hard to keep myself reading slowly so I didn't rush through it in a few hours. I can't wait till I own my own copy of this book (and of the other two) and hopefully my library will have the other two books so I can finish them. I HAVE to know what happens!! 
 Thanks Maria for writing such an awesome and different book!