It's been a little while since I've read the book, so I don't remember the characters names, but I do remember the jist of what happens. I was pretty darn good. I liked the characters and the forboding that was inserted in it. There is a lot of uncertainty with who everyone (especially the two main characters) should trust and if they are telling the truth/respecting them. The amount of betrayal by those I thought would not do so and the actions by those I thought were lying/crazy but were actually telling the truth. The way the characters had to face that they were a pair really made up the main conflict. If they had just worked together in the first place all of the other conflicts in the book would have been solved with very little problems, but of course that was not the case. Instead they fought against one another, one not believing his brother died for no reason and the other not being able to accept that he was a witch (Baan or something) from the other land which his country (and especially his aunt) fought against. And the legend that surround the whole story really makes everything come together, and I love it for that. It really is quite good if I can talk this much even having not read it for a while.