Welp - I think I'll chicken out on this one. After finishing and trying to decide what to write, I went back to read some of the less excited reviews, and I'll just say I agree more with them than with the 5-stars. The book started out at breakfast, but suddenly they're at a ball. Is it a breakfast ball? What happened to breakfast? Oh wait, now we're back at breakfast, but then walking outside at night at the ball. A breakfast ball, at night? And then there was the misuse of verbs and overuse of pet words. "Choosing to do this, he chose to do that." In the same sentence. And orbs and tides. And a heroine who overthinks to distraction. To. Distraction. If I was the DNF type, this would have raised it's hand to jump into that pile, but I always think that eventually the story will redeem itself... (not this time). Lots of author intrusion, lots of hammering a point home (I got it the first time), not enough show and too much tell.