cahn

I agree with you about the Different Cultures, but definitely I thought the Sharing Knife thing, while solidly set up, was really not given prominence. I felt kind of like to wrap up the plotlines in a way that would make Beguilement come to a natural sort of conclusion, it was sort of forced into a romance mold.

Also, I feel like it's as much of a romance novel as, say, Gaudy Night. Which is really a mystery. But it's also a wonderful romance, at least to me :)