I really enjoyed this book. The book is set in a fantasy world that is Egyptian inspired, I am certain, with the way that the world is described. It takes place over the course of a year and the main character is a young boy who is forced to serve the enemy of his countrymen because they took over his family property.

It starts out with the MC in a rather horrible situation, but he is taken into a better situation. The book is very good--the first of a quartet and I have to say that I am certain that the others will be just as good, if not better. I have to admit that Mercedes Lackey is one of my first favorite authors and I am slowly working on collecting everything she has written, I enjoy her writing style that much!