What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies.
You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination of what it really means to be sent to study someone, and keep yourself aloof from what you think is a more primitive culture.
I enjoyed the author’s writing style, and am definitely interested to read more.