Mare gets ready for her stealing spree, but she takes her time scoping the place out first, since the stakes are so much higher her and she can’t just grab willy-nilly like she does at home. (Why does she get away with that at home, again? Oh, broken record.) While watching, she notices that the…

This chapter opens up with an infodump about the war, which has been going on almost 100 years. Apparently Lakelands have all the food, and Norta (Mare’s country) has all the technology, because they have “water mills” to produce electricity, thus attack. Um…how is Lakeland growing food without water? I mean, I get it, they’ve…

Mare heads home, along the way giving us some more details about her world. The most important being that there’s a place called Summerton nearby, a small town supported by the royals’ summer palace and the entourage of nobles that follow them when they stay there. Mare’s little sister, Gisa, works there. She goes inside,…

This review was originally written and posted in August 2015. New book time! We’re going to tackle Red Queen next, a book I started ages ago and had to give up because there was just too much I wanted to say about it. And in only the first few chapters! This should be fun. We…