natpatreads
Written on Jan 6, 2022
This book starts with Lia -- a princess who is in an arranged marriage with the prince of a country -- who runs away to a village hoping to start anew.
My favourite part of this book was being unaware of who was the prince and who was the assassin. It left me guessing for a good chunk of the book, and I was totally wrong!! I appreciated the character growth of the princess and the other main characters throughout this novel. She definitely was annoying and somewhat unlikable at the beginning, but I grew to appreciate her more as the story advanced.
I am rather nervous about the next two books in the series as my favourite plot point has already been resolved in this novel, but I will most likely finish them because I am interested in how it ends.
I definitely wouldn't qualify this as "high fantasy", but it is a decent entry into the YA fantasy world.