Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. All thoughts are my own.

I truthfully cannot say that there was any part of this that I enjoyed. This felt like a ripoff of multiple popular romantasy novels and that’s putting it nicely. I think the ending did show some promise, and that’s why I’m giving it 1 star and not 0. Otherwise, Arla was extremely brash and disrespectful, which didn’t make sense for her character, the king’s assassin that was raised by the king himself. Hark felt like a copy paste of every other one dimensional broody but loyal male leader. Arla was another female lead that was “so smart and intelligent” yet consistently makes the dumbest decisions. The plot felt like a bunch of tropes held together with a dream. I was hoping for more originality and depth of the story based on the synopsis but I’m sure other people will love this.