It took me a long while to get into this book - the whole "Mona Lisa's totally cool with what's going on to her" thing kinda threw me off for a while, as did the Amber/Gryphon Love Triangle thing, but after I kept reading, I really liked it. Mona Lisa's a strong, vibrant woman who even as she takes the changes in her life in stride, is obviously really flippin' out about everything. Gryphon and Amber at first you write off as typical macho warrior studs, but you really get to see their sensitive, emotional sides as the book goes on. Ditto with Prince Halycon. I'm kind of confizzled about how the series progresses - if you just search the series in order it tells you that there's like 435769384 Mona Lisa books and stuff; right now I'm just going off the "sequel" that's previewed in the back of the book, and go from there.