I was ready for this to blow my socks off.....

But my socks are still on.

We get started. Boom. we get an assassin and spy master; which I'm usually love no matter what, but it was a miss for me. She (spy master) is so well known for her abilities, but nothing is giving I should be scared of her. Seems like she's the only one scared of her.

Then we have the queens second (the assassin) who has done dark and unspeakable things.... But everyone keeps getting the drop on him. Not very menacing of him.

They go to a neighboring kingdom to get help with her powers because they have changed and get thrown into a mess and another POV that must mean something in the next book because it was pretty useless in this one.