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I like this story because it is simply a classic. It has the noble knight, the scorned woman, and the innocent maiden caught in between. It is compelling for just that reason. You have clear right and wrong, repentance, lost love, revenge and internal struggle. As a lover of fantasy, my biggest problem with this is that this poor kid grows up under her fathers care and he lets her believe that she is an orphan just like all the other kids. He knows about her messed up parentage and could have warned her and protected her but nope, she hits puberty and bam, she can no longer resist. And I have to say, that is another thing that is really bothering me. In fantasy we use the phrase “came of age” to mean one of two things. Ready to marry, or hit puberty. Because this girl is 14 and being raised in a church, I have to assume that it means the latter. Sooooo, puberty=the call of the hag? Basically, her period turned her into a witch? No thanks.