This was a very plodding story. And the big twist? Well, for me there was no big twist in the end. There is a lot of color language and I felt like I was listening to one of those PhD thesis that use nothing big words and are actually about nothing at all. You know the ones that they exposed the process for a dissertation can be just a big pile of doo. Well, this wasn't doo, but it just seemed for all the interesting world building that this story does have there is no real exploration into that world. There is so much political back and forth in Ardwin (sorry, I listened to it so I don't know how anything was spelled) that I wasn't surprised by anything the main character did. She was a child put into a situation that was just too boring to be a fantasy.

I was glad when this was over. I'm happy to have listened to it but I'm so much happier that I completed it.