Minor Spoilers Ahead 3.5 stars 
 This book follows Adrian sul'Han, or Ash who is the famous High Wizard Han Alister's son who is a teen wizard. Ash goes to the same magic school, Oden's Ford as dad and he concocts plans to get revenge for a particular tragedy at the beginning of the novel. Ash is a healer and has it out for the king of Arden who is evil and merciless. For most of the novel Ash is taught to be dead and pretends to be someone else. He gets a job at the castle as an animal healer in hopes of killing the king under his nose. 
 Then we have Jenna who is a bit more complicated. She is out for revenge for her friend who was killed by the hands of the king literally. Jenna has a mysterious mark behind her neck and all she knows about it is that death will follow her. She is wanted for her mark so she disguises herself as a boy to fend off people and plots to get revenge. She can touch fire and hot stuff without being burnt which is cool. 
 These two end up at the castle under different circumstances and instantly fall in love. The insta love made me take off a star. Also the plot felt reused and the book dragged a bit after about 60 percent. I also felt that Ash did not live up to his father's name. 
 One of the reasons for my low ratings as compared to Chima's other works is due to the plot being very similar to the Seven Realms Quartet. I was not able to connect with Ash in this book for some reason. For me personally Jenna was a more complex and well developed character for the first 60 percent of the novel. After that her character development went downhill sadly. I ended up liking a secondary character more than Ash. Han was such a great lead in TSR and I was very much disappointed with his son. 
 To say the least I enjoyed Destin and his sarcasm. He reminded me a bit of Magnus Demora from The Falling Kingdoms.