3.5 stars. This was ... fine. It had a lot of the tropes that I enjoy - bad boy kidnaps good girl for the right reasons, a portion of the land and people has been excommunicated from the rest of the land, and such. All over though, this was kind of formulaic. Which -to a degree - is fine. It’s a formula that works. I just wish that this had been just a little more new, a little more brave. I’ll probably read the sequel just to see where I goes from here, but I’m not itching at the seems to get my hands on the next book.