The escape itself is also very vague because I guess it would be inconvenient to have to explain how a princess who is kept on a very tight leash manages to escape a supposedly heavily-guarded palace. The plot opens with Princess Lia escaping an arranged marriage along with her maid. If you thought Throne of Glass or Shadow and Bone were fantasy-lite, then this is fantasy-zero (no sugar, no calories, tastes like ass). I imagine some people will think I'm exaggerating when I say that this book really is all about the MC's boy issues, her maid's boy issues, and the boys in question, and we are supposed to imagine that there is a complex fantasy world existing in the background - but I am not exaggerating at all.
Because that is all you're going to get from this. If some very vague mentions of a kingdom and some very vague mentions of special powers add up to fantasy world-building for you, then you probably won't have a problem with this book. I should call this review: Lies The Kiss of Deception told me. And while I'm not overly concerned with the conventions of genre, I'm amazed that anyone can consider this a fantasy. They're almost always called "dramatic word of dramatic word" or "dramatic word and dramatic word", but I realize in hindsight that I should have paid attention to The Kiss of Deception because, I kid you not, this book is all about kissing. I rarely give much weight to fantasy titles. “Well, if you were to kiss him, what do you think it would be like?”
Girls of the royal staff were not supposed to indulge in such unrestrained behaviours. “Who says I’ve kissed him?” Pauline replied mischievously. “Is he the first boy you ever kissed?” I asked
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