Ugh. How tiresome. Very YA, with tedious tacked-on romantic subplot and an inability to use the past participle lain properly. Also, when you entitle your book 'Seven ways to kill a king' (A+ title, no notes), I expect a full complement of seven (7) regicides, and what's more, seven (7) different regicides. We only got five in this book, and they all involved poison. There was an insufficiency in both quantity and diversity of king-slayings here. (I never thought I'd find myself writing that a book had too MUCH poison in it, but here we are.)

Half a star for the title, though. I only wish I could have read the book that this title actually belonged to.