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Aug 10, 2014KateHillier rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This book sort of sneaks up on you. On one hand this tale is very similar to a lot of other revenge, take back the throne, style stories but you do not want to put the book down. Yarvi is headed for the Ministry, an order sort of like the clergy but heavily educated and tend to serve as advisors to kings, but is given news that both his father and brother have been killed - leaving him next in line to the throne. Yarvi has never wanted or expected to be king but when he is betrayed, part for power and part because of him having one crippled hand, he is bent on reclaiming what is rightfully his. The novel reads a lot like a saga, lots of repetition and cadences that bring me back to medieval literature, but it keeps you turning those pages and hoping along with Yarvi that things turns his way so he can prove what he's made of to himself if no one else.