But what REALLY rubbed me the wrong way was that she didn't even stop to consider what would happen to other people because of her actions. And here she does it, mainly because she can’t bear the thought of marrying someone she doesn’t love, someone who’s spineless enough to not react to an arranged marriage. Her character was strong to begin with, but I appreciated that her growth happened in a natural flow throughout the book. Lia is a strong character who decides she wants to live life her way and runs away with Pauline on her wedding day. Lia's lady's maid and dearest friend sticks with her through thick and thin, and she just may be the Princess's saving grace when all is said and done.

Okay, that may be overstating things only slightly (there were a couple of tiny things I took issue with) but I think it fair to overlook those small things in this case. The Prince: the prince who got jilted by Lia when she runs away, he pursues her only to fall further in love with her! Lia is said it have dark hair and the girl on the cover has dirty blonde hair and 2) I felt at some point the writing was a little repetitive and felt like it was just used to fill up some space.And if Lia had acted like this, giving in to fear, I would have liked her far, far less than, in fact, I did. Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. Ohh when you don't get along with the main character, it's really hard to enjoy a book that is mostly from their perspective and that girl is such a damn princess it's hilarious when other characters act like she's "not like other court girls" just because she wears pants and wait tables, especially since not many exciting things happen. The escape itself is also very vague because I guess it would be inconvenient to have to explain how a princess who is kept on a very tight leash manages to escape a supposedly heavily-guarded palace.

While on the run, she encounters the prince she was promised to and an assassin who’s been sent to kill her. It's just that I was so surprised when I finished this book and rushed to Goodreads to look through the reviews from the community only to find a spate of top-rated one star reviews awaiting me and every other person who ever looks this book up. What an incredibly beautiful fantasy read with well developed world building, honor, loyalty, love, deception and romance!I mean, I enjoyed most of it but there were some things that just NO, like the fact that the two guys fell in love with Lia in like 6 seconds after meeting her!