I truly adore this book. It's one of my all-time favorites, one of those books I'll go back to when I've had a bad week or need to curl up with an old friend. It reminds me of everything I love in well-written Young Adult literature.

And Harry Crewe is one of the best heroines out there. Really, I find it very difficult not to love Robin McKinley's work and rereading makes me wish I had daughters to give it to.