Deeply weird (and slightly disturbing) bodice ripper. While the world is interesting, the story really was not -- plus it triggered two of my particular issues. First, there's a lot of near-but-not-quite-pedophilia. Second, there are no such things as princesses (and yes, the lead was a princess, even at the start in her far away kingdom) without staff. Yes, I do not hold these things to be morally equal. 
 This could have been so much better a book and it wasn't and that kind of annoys me.