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Wow. This turns to be excitingly good. Slow and detailed but so atmospheric. Cosy but also dark. Suspenseful, intriguing, full of mystery and mysticism. Think of a female Tad Williams author writing a fantasy mystery that reads like historical fiction and that is full of flavour and intrigue.

That scene with the saint and the vision and THAT BATTLE! So much just happened. Also, Sanglant is my kind of sharp and prickly emo prince. I love him already.

So eldest daughters inherit property and eldest SONS marry out because the Lady tends the Hearth and it’s STILL SO MEDIEVAL. This feels closer to the time it’s drawing on than GoT was on a good day. I know because it’s SO much more alien to me. I love it.

Some early thoughts: why isn’t this popular as other door stops? I’m calling it The Sorting Hat Theory.

This gender balanced pseudo Catholicism with ALL of its attendant problems is AMAZING.

The redemption as the heresy is. Just. Wow. The theology geek in me can’t look away.

Alain just freed an Eika prince, traded blood, and mind melded with it. This will certainly not have consequences later.

I’ve owned this series since I bought them all when Borders closed. And now, the stars have aligned. I can’t wait.