"It's the way gods like it: vice balanced by virtue.' 
 This was surprising! Don't let the shiny cover fool you, it's actually a little gritty. 
 Faris has had some bad luck in her life, and gets given a pretty shitty deal. But she doesn't stop fighting. 
 There was some lovely world-building and an intricate plot that still has somewhere to go. 
 The only thing my mother left behind that night was my broken heart, awoken to the idea that there was gold in this world, that there was more. And she had wanted it more than she wanted me. 
 Bryn is not at all what I would have expected a seventh princess to be, and I loved her for it! Obviously she is counterproductive to our main character, but she added well to the story. 
 and this can't be real, an executioner made of mercy and a princess with a heart black as sin. 
 Alistair Pembrough. I feel like there was substantial information for me (I like a tortured hero, I like redemption, I like a snarky/not mr nice guy love interest okay??) to board this ship, and so I did. 
 And not for the first time, it seems I have chosen the wrong ship! 
 Oh well, I will stick with it to the end. 
 "Sometimes falling makes us stronger," ....... 
 But sometimes when you fall, it's because you've been defeated. 
 "A weak heart breaks, a broken heart bleeds and blood can be poisoned." 
 Very keen for the sequel!