It involved this cool chick Amelie, her sister Celine, and this old fart Jaromir. Oh, and a lady named Inna who I'm convinced the author hates.

In all, I mention Amelie first because she's the only one with a brain.
Everyone's trying to solve a string of vampire type murders for various reasons, and she'n her sister need to have a big part in it so they don't get cast out of the castle and murderified by people who want them dead.
Her sister decides to use clairvoyant magic which, while useful, requires direct contact with someone who's going to die and would be easily discredited if the villain didn't have a mental deficiency. The Guard Captain is trying a tactic that he had already proved to be completely ineffective for no reason other than to be difficult. And Amelie is searching the castle, talking with guards, ladies, and gents of all persuasions to see who could possibly gain anything from random ladykilling.

Only, one night, her sister comes to her and says they're kidnapping one of the women who she saw getting murderified. A plan that, if successful, wouldn't help anyone with anything, wouldn't guarantee Inna's safety, and would have a high chance of getting them kicked out of the castle to get murdered. So it's a pretty dumb plan to begin with, what with the dangers involved.

It's even dumber when you account for the security around the castle. Which included multiple portcullises and more than a sultry few guards. Which they had no plan for.
Which is where Amelie, the smart sister, should have been saying "Wait just a damn second." It's the first and last completely moronic thing she did, thankfully.

But they do it. They get out into the castle town, remember that the plan has a zero percent chance of failure, flounder about like halfwits, and get caught like it's nothing.



And then nothing happens.
They get grounded for a few hours with guards posted outside of their room, and then they're back on like normal. No additional stipulations, no getting booted out, Inna dies anyway, and altogether the entire attempted kidnapping was absolutely pointless.
I'm sittin' there thinkin', damn. Why even bother mentioning it? If they aren't going to get into trouble, develop any character, set up anything, or succeed in the slightest, why bother?
It made the smart one look dumb for no reason, and I dun get it.


And on a different note, Amelie is also a swordsmaiden.
She gets into three fights. Altogether three.
Gets her a** handed to her all three times. First two times is normal, seeing as how she's fighting against a guard captain who's liable to be better at fighting than she, but the third time, she gets owned by a fifty year old lady whilst the element of surprise was on her side.
Y da swordsmaiden gotta fail every time she tries to fight? It dun make no sense.