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I tried, I really tried to make it through this book, and got about halfway through, but... GAH! One of the main protagonists is Kyra, a 15 year old girl with a destiny of some sort (couldn't force myself to go on and find out what it is, don't care). Apparently 15 years is the age of majority in her land, but she's so shallow and childish. One minute she regards her father with utmost love, respect and admiration, then he tells her something she doesn't like and she hates him. At one point she finds out that he hasn't told her little known secret and it 'hurt her more than a million knives.' She runs off into a dark and snowy night, wanders for a couple chapters, takes and action that jeopardizes her whole nation, then is rescued and taken back where she came from. HORRIBLE! The book often feels like a story being told by an adolescent due to the over-the-top nature of some characters and their childlike reactions to a number of situations. For instance, one character (don't really know if he's a protagonist or not, just a recurring character) bears the mark of a mercenary (which tags him a 'King's man' for some reason?) that he had to kill (assassinate) 1000 people to get. Not a dozen, 50 or 100 - a full thousand... The idea that someone could do that may not exceed the realm of possibilities, but the mark is well-known enough that bandits in an outlying forest recognize it... that has to indicate that it's not a unique, maybe not even rare mark. Bodies must be piled high in that kingdom, and the king must be one serious monster to need that many people dead... Oh, and that same character promised himself he'd never kill again, soul-sick of the violence, but jumped into the bandits with glee - not reluctantly, but with a cruel smile. 'Remove from device' time. Mom always said 'If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all', but if you waste a dozen hours on a bad book, don't you have a moral obligation to warn people? I think you do.