So this is the first book in The Twelve Kingdoms series. Apparently this novel is a fantasy romance. I did not know this when I decided to read this trilogy. This Captain does not normally read romance novels. Books with romance in them are fine but books where the plot is secondary to the sex are usually just not my thing. This novel had just enough of a good plot and also a fun main character, Andi, that I finished it.

I had picked up this series because each of the books is supposed to focus on a different sister. This book focuses on the “invisible” middle sister. I actually really liked Andi. She is headstrong and intelligent and struggling to find her place in the world. Her tenacity is what kept me reading to see how her story would end.

This story was not without flaws. Andi finds out that she is tied by treaty to the land her mother is from. Rayfe is of course the enemy Prince love interest. About 2/3 of the book is the struggle between Andi wanting to give in to the passion she feels with Rayfe and the conflict of “betraying” her family. The last 1/3 is after she with Rayfe is her trying to discover her powers.

I just wish so much of the book was not the internal struggle of Andi and focused more on the magic side of things. Even how Andi learned her powers was sort of blah. But I did like how the book ended and so I will read book two to find out what happens with sister number 2 . . .

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