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Nightmarish! The book in itself was not terrible, if I can find the second and third book cheap I will certainly pick it up. What bothered me about the book was the detail. Let's just start with detail.

When a book starts like this "A dozen musicians sit on stoold under the oblong white silk awning held in place by four sturdy poles, each pole anchored by heavy cords to a pair of stakes. The silk flutters slightly in the almost still air that carries the scent of dust and horses."

The detail kills me. I like to know what's going on, certainly... hell I write insanely detailed when left to my own devices. But *nothing* in that paragraph grabbs my attention. It's the last paragraph on the page that shows a character and dialouge. The world isn't even introduced until much later. The tense... that's another headache.

All in all the story is interesting. An ordinary woman, musician of about 45, is sucked into a world by a desperate spell for a sorceress. In the world sorcery works through music, from there things get insanely tangled.

While I wouldn't say "Avoid this book", it has merits after all, I just didn't get anything out of it myself. The story drags along, the bad things that happen don't really make an impact on the reader and you have to wonder how they are going to fill two more books.