was pretty good, some of the side stories were also interesting. right up to the incest one. safe to say, I dropped it after that one.
anyways, the final battle was pretty good would be better if the main character didn't have a random bout of pacifism at the end tho.
Oddly enough, I liked both "the incest one" (which struck me as silly and cute) and the MC's last minute bout of pacifism.
The latter struck me as a logical progression from Vivian's idealistic but headstrong character and her inability to stop the slaughter of her people. It was also foreshadowed before the final battle in her observation that those fighting in the streets of Reiden became "not people" in their savagery.
Confronted with endless failure and horror in her solo quest to find a solution, Vivian initially resisted the implications of those experiences. Rather than become more pragmatic, she clung ever tighter to her faith in good intentions, eventually renouncing the violence she found so abhorrent in the world around her.
In the end, of course, she came to understand the limits of diplomacy, goodwill and her own stubborn insistence. Which is to say that she won a measure of awful wisdom. I quite liked this progression and thought it seemed well grounded in character and narrative. But that's just me...