content: I felt compelled to review this myself after buying the book based on the reviews posted here. Almost all of them were glowing, save one, which is the one I should have paid attention to. The fact that this writer was compared to Tolkien is a crock, thank you very much. In her(and any other fantasy writer's)dreams. Let the buyer beware.Although this was not a terrible book, it didn't stand out enough for me to consider it a "good" book, either. I found it to be derivative of Anne Rice, Harry Potter (without the whimsy) and any given Anita Blake novel. Elizabeth Ashe hasn't done anything new with her story: the main character, Madison Leonine, is an annoyingly archetypal heroine; beautiful, smart, sassy, perfetcly perfect, but with a dark secret. What a shocker.