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It's a great book -- particularly if you like Victorian novels, works set during the Napoleonic wars, or really traditional fairy tales, where the faeries are charming and cold and cruel. That said, as an owner of both paper and ebook versions, I would have to say that the paper copy is in this case far superior. That's because one of the conventions of the book is ample footnoting, that appears (as expected) on the bottom of the page, providing terrific details on this particular world's magic, fairies, etc., usually written in a very scientific and academic style. The footnotes add a to the text, but in the ebook they're all hyperlinks that you need to click on individually, which then takes to the back of the book where they're endnoted by chapter. If I had first read this book as an ebook, I never would have bothered reading any of the footnotes, as the navigation back and forth would have been too disruptive.
That said, it's a terrific book.
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