**Spoilers ahead**
Took me quite few days to finish this as I had to pause and tamp down my annoyance at some point.

1. Premise is really awesome. Setting is like this middle ages village-esque where we meet Miraden hopelessly in love with Ceycha but can the relationship went down the drain cause the latter denied him to keep her sister Kyra who also likes Miraden, from getting hurt. You have to take note that these three grew up as kids and is on their teens when the book started.

2. Twist: Devil walkers called Ashenkins (which reminds me of Orcs from LOTR) kidnapped Kyra along with other kids in the village for some still unexplained reason - about their origin, purpose etc.

3. Twist: Miraden, hoping to heroically redeem himself in the eyes of Ceycha volunteered to quest for the rescue of Kyra so on he goes for a Hobbit x Lord of the Rings adventure where he met his Gandalf, a she mage called Simigrin and his Sam, a cleric called Lovo. Badabing badaboom - fought with monsters etc. All the while, Ceycha knew about this because she recieved letters from Miraden describing his tales

4. Miraden and Simigrin kissed (gasp). Kyra was rescued. New peak introduced at the latter part of the book pre empting the second book installment premise. The end.

5. Love the premise and the writing style. Looked and sounded cohesive.. it just dragged a little bit for me. Had to skip few parts

6. Really got annoyed with how Ceycha treated poor Miraden - this guy freaking foraged, hunted, performed chores, heroically fought monsters just to get her approval as a potential husband