I must be, like, very desensitized to angst (thank you fanfic) because I did not get that 'I just got hit by a bus/kill me now' feeling a lot of people got. But I still found this phenomenal.

What really got me was all the complex relationships between, well, everyone. It was like, every thirty pages things would shift and not in the way you expected. Games over games over games. The ties between people, what they all struggle for, the responsibilities, the rules. Awesome. All awesome.

And Jude was perfect. How fear was such a part of herself she couldn't show it anymore. How she would never truly belong in either world. How family comes first, even if it's messed up. And how while her immediate goals shift, she still always strives for power. Power is safety until you start to amass too much of it.

Of course, I loved the rest of them too. Vivi's rebellions against her dad and guilt at bringing her sisters into faerie. Taryn's own plan of attack to be safe. Madoc's love for his family, but the inability to express it outside of this faerie limitations. Locke's games to ruin all around him. Cardan's vaguely moral line.

Everything just works together *so well*.