Alright, well then:
*spoiler alert* if you haven't read the book and don't want to be spoiled, stop reading!
ok..it's been a while now so I'm a little sketchy on the details. the main thing that bothered me was when catriana goes to the governors place in Senzio pretending to be a prostitute(i can't remember why anymore - to assassinate him i think?) and she has to jump out the window to escape, and somehow what's-his-name saves her. The whole thing felt contrived to me, like she shouldn't have been able to survive it. The right character just happened to be there for her in time when no one had known where she went. I felt the entire thing would have been more effective if she had died.
The second event that bothered me was when Dianora went through that ritual about diving into the water after the ring....the entire thing before forshadows that she's going to drown, every character seems to think that she has no chance of surviving it, but she does. It felt a little forced to me again, but it bothered me less than the other event i described. Basically, I felt that the author was putting his characters into impossible situations and then they survive only because he wants them to survive and not because there's a reasonable chance that they *would* survive. Especially with catriana being saved by such(in my opinion) a contrived event. It felt like the author was too reluctant to let any of his good guys die. In fact, as far as i can recall, none of them do.
anyways, that was my main problem, it's been a while since i read it, so hopefully I'm making sense here *l*
