Did Verin ever call him that before? I don't think she did. That bothered me a little in the book because I didn't recall her calling him anything but Mat. I looked up a few chapters in tGH, and in everything I've read so far she always calls him Mat.

I know this is a minor thing, but it took me out of the story and it would have been easy to look up how she speaks to him.


Edit: while I'm complaining about little things, some stuff about Thom bothered me too. BS's descriptions of things he did were about gleeman in general. Whereas RJ always made a point of writing that Thom was special.

One example was the spying. The way BS wrote it, people always tell all gleeman things and all Thom has to do is listen. Where before, Thom was good at it. Not just lazy and able to hear. It was his thing

Another example is when Joline shoots the fireball at them. Thom moved out of the way of it quickly because he had a gleeman's agility. If RJ had written it, Thom would have moved out of the way fast because he's freakin' Thom!