This one gets 2 stars for the 1st 300 SLOW pages and 5 stars for the last 200, high-speed, awesome pages. That evens itself out to a three right? I would still totally recommend this book and will still most likely read the sequel. I loved the description of the vagabond camp, the chase across the continent, the development of strength and realization of power from the lead character in the 2nd half of the book. I did not like the slow, plodding build-up that preceded it however. The escape at the beginning was just far too convenient, the giggling between the two girls was superfluous, the change from princess to peasant too easy, the love triangle too (hurl). Laos, while I understand the vague mysteriousness behind the Kaden/Rafe/Lia/Assassin/Prince/Princess love triangle, it was just too much, clever no doubt, but too much.
Also, I'm calling it now. This book is set in a post-apocolyptic North America (not a completely made-up fantasy world). If this is the big reveal in book 2 or 3, someone owes me some skittles!
Final Recommendations: if you like high fantasy, love-triangles, baby-mama drama, the development of strong characters over the length of a book, interesting (if not confusing) world set-up
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