When reading this book I think, for one main reason, it is important to understand when it was written. For there is one particular character, that of written today I would think would be written very differently. That's the character of Camo. Don't get me wrong, Camo is a very endearing and delightful character, but he is introduced to us by being described as a halfwit, and behaves in a very stereotypical way for times less enlightened about mental disabilities as we are today. So this fact kept jarring with me. But I have to be forgiving. Apart from that this was as warning and as delightful as Dragonsong. Though I can't say there is as much character development as I'm used to I'm modern literature, it's a wonderful capsule of another age of literature.