I want to love this, I really do. It's so well written, the author does such a great job at creating this world. But this book is dreadfully slow. It's awful. Nothing happens for huge chunks of the book and it could not hold my attention. I was so bored for so much of it. Then we'd hit these action packed parts that pulled me in so strongly and I didn't want to put the book down. I really needed more of that, and less of the repetitive arguments and training scenes. 

One big issue I have with this book, and the last, is the confusion that surrounds everything and everyone. No one seems to know what's going on with Darcy. She has these powers, and everyone says it's because she's queen, but we don't really get any further answers than “because that's the way it is”. I keep finding myself looking for more of an explanation or an original story and instead I got these little blips of Eleanor's story that didn't explain anything other than her relationship with Nordreg. 

I really dislike the whole story line with the goddesses. All three of them are frustrating and only bring about more questions than answers, which, I suppose, is par for the course. At this point, I'm struggling to find aspects about the book I do like. There's no development in the relationships with her mates, all they do is run around constantly demanding to protect her and take care of her. They worship her as their queen but are still constantly overruling every decision she makes (which is fair because she has absolutely no experience or know how to be a queen, but still). There's also very little personality to any of them. They were put into these little boxes of where they fit in the relationship and no one has grown from it. Aka, The Outsider. The Serious One. The Funny One. The… Big one? I don't know. That's all I get. They live to love Darcy and that's it. 

I'll finish this by saying that although this book doesn't work for me, the writing really is wonderful and so well done.