Actual Rating: 3.5 
 I love the author's style of writing, it makes you want to keep flipping pages and it is a very interesting world she creates. That being said, the only issue I had with the book was the marriage. There was none. I'm not sure exactly what the author has against it and i'm not one of those very picky people who will shun a book because the lovers didn't get married. (view spoiler)[But it felt like the book might have been better if Po and Katsa had, i don't know, maybe because they suit each other so well? (hide spoiler)] The author didn't explain very well why Katsa didn't want it either. Besides that she thought it would change her. I actually thought they might've by the end. And to me, because of that, if felt like there was this loose end that didn't get tied up. I still love the story, though I won't be reading Fire because from the 10-15 or so reviews I read on Amazon.com most of it is just made up of war and a lot of bed-hopping.