Sigh. I wanted to love this one. However, that didn't happen. The best part of the book was the last 50 pages. The writing kept me intrigued enough to keep reading, but Ophelia drove me crazy. The trials were a joke. If she didn't have help, she would have never made it through. It was predictable, and I never bought the romance either. So I didn't hate it, but I definitely didn't love it like so many others seem to. I'm just an outlier on this one, unfortunately.