This book was just as great as the first and I didn’t even mind the romance. I wish more ya could follow the footsteps of old fantasy, where the romance is not in your face and plays a more background role in the plot. I love how we get to see little glimpses of Mendanbar’s affections for Cimorene. It’s not all “omg her eyes”, “I can’t stop staring at her body”, “I want to kiss her”, but it’s more “I like being around her”, “she’s so interesting and intelligent”, “she’s worried about me, it’s nice to be cared about, but I don’t want her to worry either”. It’s all so soft and good and I love it so much. Also we got to see more of Morwen and her cats and she has a cat named Chaos and I could scream I love it so much. And we even had an adorable wedding at the end