I can't answer this coherently right now because I am tired but you are making me very very sad that I do not have my copy yet.

Also everybody fails to mention pimp!magus. Is he not in the final version? If he is not in it, I will be very very sad.

Also this book officially made Gen/Irene/Helen/Sophos my OT4. Between the romance and the bromance and the sismance and the cousinsmance and the...thronesmance? What would you call Sophos and Irene's relationship anyway?