Note: this is a negative review, if you enjoyed the book I ask you not to criticize me. Thanks! :) 
 Do you know that feeling of hating almost every single character, being dead bored by the plot, despising the characters' weaknesses that are too much highlighted? 
 In just one third of this book I felt them. 
 The characters. 
 - I usually like fierce, proud and willful heroines, but Lada is just... bloody. She just want to fight, make people suffer, she's absurdly possessive towards "her" land and her brother, who's considered more like a good than a person. She sees people as threads to obtain what she wants, refusing all kinds of relationships. Could really a more or less 12-year-old girl be like this? 
 - Radu, Lada's brother, seems to have only weaknesses. Too weak, too kind, too naive... so what's his aim in this story? Getting in trouble? Being beaten? 
 The plot. 
 All is about Lada's hatred for everybody. The Ottomans. Her father. Her brothers. Her mother. Her weaknesses. The fact itself of being female. What a nice example of feminism, huh? I've never met a character despising almost the entire world except for "her Wallachia". 
 After a loooong and endless beginning with Radu always beaten and Lada always beating or complaining, it begins another loooong and endless part about politics and war strategies. 
 I swear I really tried finishing the book because I hate leaving things interrupted, but my mind begged me to stop and at the end I listened to it xD