I read Daughter of Mystery, and I loved it. (I'd never have read it as an ace romance, but more of a "sweet" one - fade to black, whee! But there are always multiple ways to read a text.) But despite its publisher, it's not conventional romance at all, and the series can't really be read using romance conventions. Daughter of Mystery can, just about: The Mystic Marriage has romance in, but it's much closer to the conventions of a family saga, or a literary novel about intellectual women, than it is to romance. And then Mother of Souls defies expectation in other ways.

Also I am really sorry you had people yelling at you about your opinions on this book. You deserve better.

(Okay, if Barbara's Gwendoline Christie, which oh god yes, who's Margarit?)