Somehow I thought I would enjoy this one more than I did. Having read Marchetta's Saving Francesca I thought the emotion level would be higher. I had some major eye rolling moments in the first part of the book. Then the story took off and it got better. I loved that for a fantasy novel we didn't get lost in the world built-up like in the Autumn Twilight series. I will read the next installment. Froi is a good choice (might have wanted to know more about Lucian but that could be just me)