Finished reading this book in two days time. So far I really enjoy the series and it still manages to surprise me. I especially liked some of the plot-twists at the end of this book,can't wait to read the last book to find out what's going on. The coming-of-age part and the highly predictable scenes when Ven goes to the market and the issues that follow could have been left out for me, but a good book nontheless.

I also noticed that this is one of the very few books in a series that is actually perfectly readable without having read the other parts in the series first. There are a few links to what happened in the first book, but nothing more than is necessary to understand the characters' behaviour and just enough to make you curious about what happened before, but not enough to feel like you're not enjoying this book to the fullest because you haven't read the previous book.