A quick romance centric, light fantasy read that featured an arranged marriage and language barrier between lovers. 

This book started a little weird for me. I am not sure how to really explain it. It could have been the writing and it just jumped right into the story and the words were just off. It also had a slight slow start to catch up with whats going on, but after that is was a quick, easy read. This was an extremely light fantasy that, I would label a romantic fantasy. The romance was the main focus. I didn’t 100% love this book and found it to be a little under developed and not super original, but there were aspects I loved! 

Princess Kalista has been preparing her whole life for the arranged marriage to a prince with no chance of being a King, to suddenly have plans change. She finds herself thrust into a marriage with a warrior prince whose lands live under a curse, where a monster runs rampant. Carson was such a cute character. He was so stoic most of the time, but really tries with Kalista and does sweet little things. Seeing their arranged marriage grow into something more all while dealing with the fact that they don’t share the same language. 

I feel like so many times in books everyone just automatically can speak the same language/understand each other. I loved the aspects of them learning how to communicate with each other and still being able to fall in love without ever truly understand all the words said. 

I really like Kalista as a character. She didn’t really let anyone tell her who she should be or how she should act. She didn’t need to hero to save her, but fought along his side as an equal. I loved that! 

I did think that the fantastical elements were kind of lacking and I felt like there were quite a few unanswered questions and holes in the story. 

Overall I really enjoyed this book for the romance and the relationship development between Carson and Kalista. This wasn’t the best book I have ever read or have an ever lasting impact on me, but I thought it was light and action packed. There were some twist I didn’t see coming and some fun side characters. If you like romance books this is a great Young Adult book for you!