** spoiler alert ** 
 I've read this for the first time a long time ago. And for some reason I never started on the other books in the series. I started reading it again and only the start of the novel seemed familiar to me like I couldn't remember else. So it felt like I haven't given this book a proper read. 
 It starts slow but quickly it becomes interesting. There are a lot of characters and lot of plots and subplots and I'm looking forward to seeing how it all resolves. 
 The Red Knight is an interesting character and I hope he and Amicia have a chance together, although I didn't like that he burned her letter without reading it.