I read this one in early high school and bounced off it at the time. I didn't get the dry humor, the political metaphors went over my head, and I had Morgan le Fey and Morgause mixed up. This time through, with some sense of how to go at it properly, I enjoyed it much more. This is a clever and smart book, one that walks a careful line between taking itself too seriously and not taking itself seriously at all. From a pleasant humorous start, to the emotional end, it was a joy to read.