My least favorite Gail Carson Levine book. (But, of course, that's kind of like saying "the slightly smushed junior mint" in a box of goodies; odds are it's still pretty darn GOOD despite its small flaws!) 
 This is a much more Romance-centered novel than we usually get from Gail. We typically get friendship turning into love as a subplot (aka Addie and Rhys; Char and Ella), whereas here we get a more Romeo and Juliet thing going where two perfect faces meet at a party, fall hopelessly in love at first glance, but are kept apart by external problems. 
 Actually, come to think of it, it's kind of a gender switched "Romeo and Juliet" in a way. Kezi is "in love" with some other bloke kind of similar to how Romeo is "in love" with Rosaline at the start of the play.. Then she meets Olus and we forget the first poor loser ever existed. 
 Despite my tongue and cheek tone in this review, the above is actually what I LIKED about the book. I enjoyed the fluffy romance and different feel the book has at the beginning. 
 What I found weird was the ill-fitting mishmash of the (not even thinly veiled) Bible story of Jephthah's daughter and some random mix of pagan myths. 
 I kind of had to roll my eyes at YET ANOTHER thimble of Biblical inaccuracy thrown into the pool of tradition everyone takes without question/study of their own. Little known fact: JEPHTHAH DID NOT KILL HIS DAUGHTER; the term "living sacrifice" means he had her spend her life UNMARRIED in service to God away from the family. That is why the Bible says the "daughters of the land went up to visit her each year"! 
 Also I dunno, there were parts where the writing just felt unfinished to me, like something was missing I couldn't put my finger on. 
 All that said, I DID like it, and if Gail ever did a sequel, I'd probably read it at least ONCE. 
 It's no Ella Enchanted, but if you can get past that, you may very well enjoy it as I did!