Things take a turn when it turns out that the prince and his guard aren’t dead at all, and that they faked their deaths to keep the prince from dying at the hands of his evil stepmother as she plots to sit on the throne. Fie’s group of Crows is sent to burn the plague-infected corpses of the crown prince and his bodyguard. I probably won’t even remember the main character’s names. It’s now August and I promise you that by the time the year ends I won’t remember a single thing.
That said, I wasn’t too invested in the story or the characters and especially not in the romance. I stayed because I had already given up a couple of hours of my life and I might as well finish. but hey, what can you do? guess i could round up my rating, at least. Sure, its a nice effort for a debut, but this really isnt anything i havent read before. also, i think anyone who isnt a native english speaker will have a difficult time with this, just because the writing is just so forced and crowded. and i think its the dense writing and repetitive nature of the narrative that is so off-putting. I mean, i really wanted to love this, but other than a slightly unique magic system, theres not much going for this book that would have otherwise kept me engaged. at the halfway point, i started skimming because i just did not have the attention span to fully commit to this. You know that moment when youre reading and you lose focus, but your eyes still keep ‘reading,’ so you end up having to backtrack and reread everything you just missed when you zoned out? yeah, that happened to me soooo many times whilst reading this that i lost count.
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