To Betray My King (The Betrayal Legacy, #1)

by Kayla Lavan

[Sarah Says]

I enjoyed stepping into Ms Lavan’s medieval world of Sol and meeting the magic weavers she has filled it with. I struggled a little with the male leads at first. While I really enjoyed the playful banter and friendship between Prince Roland and his bodyguard/best friend, Conrad, it took me a while to warm up to either of them as love interests for Princess Arianna. Princess Arianna was easily likeable. She was kind hearted and always looking to improve herself, be it mentally or physically (e.g. learning to sword fight).
The story starts off following Roland, Conrad and Arianna. Their day to day lives, before, during and after the arranged marriage of Prince Roland and Princess Arianna. But when Roland goes off to war we are left behind with Conrad and Arianna. I wished we could have followed Roland into War as well!!!!!
The whole time I was reading it felt as if Ms Lavan was preparing Arianna for something big. We kept being given tastes of Arianna’s archery skills and magical status/abilities and it felt like this was building to something bigger. Well, she did get to kick some butt in the end.
This felt like the first in series, if that makes sense. A lot of set up with a dramatic actioned packed ending propelling you on to read the next book. There even is a Twist at the end that I didn’t see coming and the ‘betrayal’ goes down not as you expect.
Even with his man-whore start to the story, Prince Roland ended up being my favourite character and I am looking forward to finding out how he handled becoming King.