I remember this book from when I was like 10, when I read it MULTIPLE times because it was candy to my younger self in all the ways that 1990s fantasy aimed at teenaged girls was.
And, in many ways, it holds up.
And in so many other ways, it's such a period piece and I see all the tropes that were so popular in the mid-nineties about girls: the singularity of her, the way that SO many men find her attractive for some reason, the way that internal motivation and drive is enough to overcome hundreds of years of oppression.
I'm glad I reread it even if it altered my memory of the book. 
(I also have so many questions about some of the minor naming choices, but here we are.)