Seriously. If you are a Christian, and you have a secret love of lurid romance novels, you might give this a 5 star rating.But for the rest of us, this story is, well...shockingly awful. I love fantasy novels, and as a Christian I like try to find books that are acceptable for a Christian mind. This one had a nice name, and the cover looked interesting. It wasn't. The charecters were flat, with a horrible tendancy to make the strong minded main female charecter something to be "tamed" (which, by the way, she was.) And for a Christian book, I found the overt and unnecessary sexual references out of place. I don't mind sex scenes in a book if they are part of the story, but this book seemed to throw them in haphazardly.Please, support the cause of intelligent Christian readers everywhere and skip this book. If you want fantasy with a Christian perspective, try Stephen Lawhead or Tolkien.