read during my Social Work YearsI Remember: a flight through a rural countryside into a capital city full of strangeness & intrigue... a disguised heroine who remains quite loveable despite some often annoyingly passive behavior... a nonchalantly studly hero, a very ingratiating example of the type... a surpassingly hallucinatory ending... compelling mythology... despite all the good stuff, rather thin and occasionally frustrating... overall, high fantasy at its purest... features an intersexed character, what a rarity!