Highly enjoyed! Having just come off of a YA book that flopped for me, I went into this one with skepticism - and was pleasantly surprised! I enjoyed the magic, I enjoyed the characters, I loved the conflict created by the Game among the relationships to be found. I'm pretty sure a lot of inconsistencies could have been found in the set-up of the Crown's Game, but before long you're so into the story that you don't even think about it! I also had a guilty pleasure for the presence of so much potential romance without the story ever becoming purely a love story. And it proved very successful in providing solid suspense in regards to how the Game would end. Would recommend.

The only downfall that I could find was that some of the subplots seemed incomplete or irrelevant. Aizhana, for instance, seemed to show great potential to be a pretty terrifying antagonist; however, by the end of the book, I was left simply wondering what the whole point of her presence was. The surprising reveal that she brought with her as a result felt flat and seemed purely for the sake of shock.