I really liked how it alternates between the court room scene and Aslaug's perspective, and I feel that each of the main characters has more depth than many other novels. However, I felt the ending was too abrupt. There weren't many main events in the story (appropriately so), and I felt the author has developed them rather well, so the ending came especially as a surprise to me. 
 Suddenly, someone appears and a simple solution which doesn't wrap up the all the previous events is presented and it miraculously resolves everything. It feels as though the entire sequence of events and the extensive court scenes were all for nothing, which is rather dissatisfying. And the conclusion follows quickly. Readers are merely presented with a final scene, and many questions and issues doesn't seem fully addressed. I don't have that sense of closure. Sure, some of them can be deduced and some are better left unanswered for the readers to ponder over, but immediate questions about the lives of the main characters are left hanging. 
 I think the conclusion (not the climax and resolution which I feel should be further developed) might have worked, but in this case it just didn't fit with the rest of the book which were detailed and well-developed. I still like it [the book] though.