Such a great book. It’s a great YA fantasy romance but it had depth and richness at the same time. The writing I thought was excellent and flowed well, and I loved the main characters of Aria and Baron. I so enjoyed the peripheral characters as well - I find quite often good supporting characters that are given adequate page time make the story so much richer, and this had it in spades. 

The story line took on a great focus of friendship, seeing that differences make us better, and learning to accept that our mistakes make us human and help us learn and have compassion. It did well at contrasting
shame and failure, prejudice and revenge and pride, and what all that does to your soul and to those around you when not held in check, versus the effect of mercy, courage, perseverance and love. 

Just so many good nuggets along with great characters and writing. Well done. 

Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy of this book. All opinions are mine.