Sixteen-year-old Kyra, a highly-skilled potions master, is the only one who knows her kingdom is on the verge of destruction-which means she's the only one who can save it. Faced with no other choice, Kyra decides to do what she does best: poison the kingdom's future ruler, who also happens to be her former best friend. -Amazon
Is this book a sequel?? For all of it's merit, there's too much world, and not enough world building. The only descriptions are centred around the three main characters who are described again and again and again. Everything in Kyra's past and all other exposition is thrown in haphazardly with sparsity that would make even Hemingway balk. The plot has potential, but is crammed in, under-simplified, and under-foreshadowed. For instance, there is nothing to suggest certain familial relations until they are revealed; it's not a plot twist, it's just annoying.
I'm sorry, Ms Zinn. I really wanted to like your book, and to some extend I really did! I thought the concept was great! Every element needed for a great story was there, but it just felt like a first draft when you haven't gotten everything quite developed yet.
Also Hal??? I need more explaining there?? And how does a fifteen year old girl in a society with "traditional" values end up in business/living with two adult men??? What???
TL;DR: too much world, not enough world building.
PS: Now that I am reading the end, if I have to read one more person thanking the main character for saving the kingdom, I'll vomit.
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