I really enjoyed this book, it was a little slow at first but the author is truly a great writer and I never felt so bored that I wanted to take a break or put the book down. The characters are likeable, but they are overshadowed by the story. Galen and Rose's romance is another one of those 'love at first sight' things, but it works well. Even though there were technically a dozen of the sisters, by the end I could only name a few and know something about their personalities, which was actually a good thing because had the author tried to introduce more of them the book would have been overcrowded. This book truly does feel like you are reading a fairytale and that means that you need to make some allowances in terms of what you expect people's actions to be (for example, in an urban fantasy if one of the characters trusted strangers the way that Gaelen does in this book I would be scoffing, but here it works). It's a great read if you are in the mood for a fairytale and don't happen to have a Disney dvd on you, but if you are expecting something deep this is not it.