4.5 stars, this book was really really good. I knew I was going to love it, but what I don't understand is why I haven't heard of this book until a few months ago. 
 It's quite an old book now, I mean 2012 seems like ages ago. But it could actually be very new. 
 I loved the idea of this book. I thought it would be fantasy, but it's purely historical fiction which I absolutely loved. I really enjoy reading about XV century, I did take a few classes at uni, and I'm really interested about history in general, so this book was just perfect for me. 
 I like the idea of these girls being trained as assassins. I thought Ismae was a really strong main characters, and the others characters were also really really great and well-developed. 
 However, this book is said to be mainly romance, and let me just say that this book is mainly politics, and then romance. And I actually really enjoyed that. 
 Overall, it was a really strong and interesting first book, I'm definitely going to read the other ones in the series.