4.5 stars 
 This is the 3rd book in the nightrunner series, which follows sweet young Alec of Kerry and the loveable rogue that is Seregil of Rhiminee as they go on their sword-fighting, horse-riding adventures. It's basically your standard epic fantasy except, like, homosexuality is a thing and not all the women are prostitutes. Admittedly my knowledge of epic fantasy is exclusively game of thrones so I'm really just speculating. 
 I read the first two books in this series last year and, although I enjoyed them, and certainly did enjoy the second one better, I feel like this is by far the best yet. I think this is for a mixture of reasons: 
 1)	There's less info-dumping - we basically know the world now so we there's no big chunks of text telling us the intimate back story of old so-and-so who was in the war and what-not. Also, I think Lynn Flewelling had just got to be a much better writer by this point. I am confident that this was genuinely a better-written book and my love for it is not just as a result of reasons 2) and 3). 
 2)	I'm just so attached to these characters by this point, I'm so excited to read anything about them I don't really care what else happens. 
 3)	MY BABIES. 
 So I liked this book. I think this series has actually got me into epic fantasy. I want to read it ALL. I don't even think these books are that well written but I just LOVE THEM. I'm so happy I have another 4 books. I will read them all. I don't even care if there's 3-page-long descriptions of so-and-so's bedroom. I'm invested.