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Calendon Holt is the Queens assassin on a mission to to seek out threats to the Kingdom of Renovia, protect her and the princess, as well as retrieve a valuable artifact in order to free him from a magical vow. He winds up with a mysterious apprentice, Shadow, who has been training her whole life to be an assassin as fierce as the notorious Calendon himself. She also has a supernatural gift that she's been trying to learn to control. These two wind up on a journey to infiltrate another kingdom and find a traitor while they discover a web of lies and deception danger and an unwanted yet undeniable attraction for each other.

I really enjoyed this book. But it is what is, a YA fantasy with war, royals, magic, and assassins. Nothing exactly new; predictable love interest and all of that! But can’t knock it for that because it was fun. The premise was fun and interesting. A touch of magic that wasn’t over done, but I think it would have been fun if there was a little more possibly. I thought the deception was cleaver but there was a bit too much foreshadowing that revealed too much. I liked the relationship development, as I said predictable hate to love, forbidden romance but in this instance I thought it was done really well. It had progression and purpose and not thrown into it. There was appropriate angst and swoon-worthy steamy scenes leaving you begging for more. It did start to over shadow the plot a bit, but thats forgivable. There were finally just 2 little things I noticed (this IS an advanced reader copy which aren’t fully polished) so we will see if they’re corrected for the final copy. There were a few times it was overly receptive. That actually that will likely not get fixed. Also This story is dual perspective I’m not sure it needed to be for this book, eitherway, Shadows chapters are first person as it should be, but Calendon's chapters are 3rd person. I didn’t really notice until about 100 pages in and I just thought how strange. His chapters should be 1st person as well right? Then it just became distracting. I don’t know if they’ll change that I think it wouldn’t be too much work if they did. Really just changing "he" statements to "I" statements. And so forth.

So over all I enjoyed this book I think its worth a read, I look forward to the next book.