4,5/5 ! I really enjoyed this second book, I read most of it in two days and couldn't stop thinkin about it when I wasn't. I do wonder though if I would really enjoy it so much if the love story wasn't there. 
 I do realise though that I wouldn't have liked it so much if it had been only plot and no love story and other frienship stories. The plot itself is fine but it's the characters (and not just Alec and Seregil falling for each others) that really make it special and lovable. But it's so refreshing to read a fantasy book that has a love story which isn't heteronormative. 
 In my head though, Alec is at east 20. Not because he sounded especially like it but simply because if he is 16 and Seregil is about 40.... meeeh. Weird. 
 So, he is 20.