I just purchased this book after reading just about all of her others and couldn't wait to sit down and read it. There is not much dialogue between the characters just alot of JL explaining what is going on and what the characters are feeling (very descriptive). I felt I couldn't connect with the characters because I wasn't waiting with bated breath to see what they had to say. I actually checked the front cover to see when it was written and I found out it was indeed an early book. This one falls in line with "Pirate's Love", which was much worse than this in content, but better written.