I'm not a big fantasy person, but this book was very sweet. I liked the touch of romance (obviously) and the characters were great. The book had some monologuing by the narrator that was a bit much sometimes, and oftentimes it felt like a life lesson was just thrown into sentences occasionally (which I would generally appreciate, but it got a bit old after awhile). You have to wait for the payoff a bit with this book, but the payoff was great so it's worth it.