This was OK. I enjoyed reading it, but found large swaths of it annoying. The writing felt very pared down, as though King was determined not to make the book too long, and so cut out a lot of description and detail. Overall, it's a decent story, but very very predictable. I have to say too, I found the whole premise of the book just odd. The concept of the rank tournament is bizarre. Also, this is clearly a society where women are expected to be obedient and submissive, but simultaneously they should be trained warriors because they'll need to fight to the death for rank? It just didn't make any sense to me.