Review: Starts great, slows, then gallops to the end
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2013
The beginning of this book was riveting. I set this book aside about three quarters of the way through because I didn't like the way the story was progressing and because it got a bit bogged down.  All the interference of the gods seems like the author is taking the easy way out when creating and resolving conflicts.  I do, someday, plan on finishing this book.So I have finished the book, and am I ever glad.  I was so emotionally caught up in where the story was going...not where I thought it should go, that I needed a rest from all the internal emotional drama the book engendered in me.  Happily, the author knew better than I where to direct the book.  The events with the Gullans and the world building was very interesting.  The way the humans addressed, accepted, or changed the Gullans traditions was fascinating. I liked the way the author acknowledged the Mary Sue-ness of Olivia by having the other women tease her about it.  The author is original.  Each time I read one of R. Lee Smith's books I wonder where she (he?) gets her (his?) ideas and stamina to write such long, delicious books.