I really enjoyed the premise of this book, and I conceptually really liked the two main characters. However, this is a debut novel, and it does show. 

I felt like this book was in need of some heavy editing to straighten out some of the purple prose and to keep the continuity intact. Sometimes stairs appeared out of nowhere, sometimes characters said things that made no sense with the information they had, and these little plot wrinkles would break my immersion. The side characters could have used some fleshing out, they were a bit too flat. I also felt like Lorali cried an excessive amount; I started saying "she's crying again" out loud to my fiance every time it happened, which started to feel like once per chapter as the book went on. It felt a bit incongruous with the personality that had been established for her towards the beginning of the book. 

Complaints aside, this was a fun fantasy story with charming characters, and I liked the world building that was there. I think Elizabeth Skarpnes has a lot of potential as an author and I would definitely pick up whatever she writes next.