The Kiss of Deception (Remnant Chronicles, #1)

by Mary E Pearson

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I definitely wasn't sure about this book when I started. It definitely is a YA trope book - nothing necessarily ground breaking or profound...but ultimately, [a:Mary E. Pearson|123463|Mary E. Pearson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1528497378p2/123463.jpg] won me in.

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.