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| TITLE: The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1) AUTHOR: Mary E. Pearson PUBLISHER: Macmillan, Henry Holt PUB DATE: Jul 8 2014 |
A princess must find her place in a reborn world.
She flees on her wedding day.
She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.
She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.
She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.
The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.
Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.
She flees on her wedding day.
She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.
She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.
She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.
The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.
Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.
- Source: Goodreads
Rating:
Why had I not read this sooner? I'm just realizing now that I had such a great stash of ARCs in 2014 that I hadn't bothered to read until now! Bad Janus! Very, very bad!
"Sometimes a gift requires great sacrifice, but we can no more turn our backs on it than will our hearts not to beat."
I really appreciated how the author wove the story into something prolific. I loved the interchanging points-of-view, and how she mischievously made readers guess between who the Assassin and who the Prince were. Although it had a bit of given clues, there were ticks here and there that tricked you into thinking maybe you made a wrong guess.. And then back to right again.
Lia's character is a force to reckon with. Wow! She may have been a simple stubborn royal who refused to marry someone she doesn't love but grew to be an astonishing person by the end. Someone you can note to be a real change to a world of war and violence.
"Sometimes a gift requires great sacrifice, but we can no more turn our backs on it than will our hearts not to beat."
I really appreciated how the author wove the story into something prolific. I loved the interchanging points-of-view, and how she mischievously made readers guess between who the Assassin and who the Prince were. Although it had a bit of given clues, there were ticks here and there that tricked you into thinking maybe you made a wrong guess.. And then back to right again.
Lia's character is a force to reckon with. Wow! She may have been a simple stubborn royal who refused to marry someone she doesn't love but grew to be an astonishing person by the end. Someone you can note to be a real change to a world of war and violence.
