This book has an interesting and very captivating story. The first few chapters are a bit confusing if one has not read "Mirror Dream" but as the story progresses the story and the character of the protagonist gets clearer. With Laenan, Catherine Webb has created a very interesting protagonist that has never wanted to be a hero and does not regard himself as that. We see the story develop from his point of view, we understand what he understands. The story is part crime solving, part fighting. Intrigues, spying, Queens and Kings, magic and dreams. The world of thought of Laenan is what makes the story so interesting even though the reader can observe more than Laenan does by himself. The other characters that use him as puppets, expect Laenan to be someone he is or is not, the ones who admire him, who hate him or fight him, none of them is neglected in complexity. Compared to the complexity of the story, ist characters and relations, the ending feels rushed. The enemy is defeated but I expected some conversations afterwards. Instead Laenan just heads home, which is something he would do, regarding his character, but as a reader I am still disappointed that he did not even talk to the queen and that after all the development their relationship had undergone during the story they would go back to their initial state of mistrust and neutrality. All in all,I find it an interesting story with complex characters but a dissatisfying ending.