The abbey kitchen, orchard, and cemetery felt real to me, like a real place. I liked Lia, and felt for the tough decisions she had to make.
At first I thought the book was going to be quite intriguing, with the empty tombs, the floating boulder, the gargoyle "leering" from every rock. Happily, the events unfold in linear fashion, with none of that annoying scene hopping and POV leaping. The Medium represents the Spirit, or God. Family, ancestry, resurrection, the laying on of hands, the passing of gifts, the sacred nature of scripture, reading, and writing. The story contains several recognizable religious messages - mainly Christian and Mormon undercurrents. No sex and no swearing, but there is death, sometimes gruesome. Strangely, we also get a very brief perspective from the false-Maston, a thief with a name like Scarface.
She's the titular "wretched" because she was abandoned at birth at Muirwood Abbey, and doesn't know her lineage. Religious Epic Fantasy, told in 3rd person POV, almost entirely from the perspective of the 13-year-old heroine, Lia.
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