Book Review » The Kiss of Deception

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Sinopsis

A princess must find her place in a reborn world.

She flees on her wedding day.

She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.

She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.

She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.

The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.

Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive-and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets-secrets that may unravel her world-even as she feels herself falling in love.

Review

After two hours looking on Goodreads for something to read, this one came up The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Peason. I didn't read any reviews I had heard about it, mostly good things, so I thought 'This is the chosen one'.

This is the story of Princess Arabella Celestine Idris Jazelia, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan or just Lia, at the age of seventeen she was to marry the Prince of Dalbreck without knowing him or seen him. After all preparations for the wedding Lia flees with her maid for Terravin, leaving the crown, her family and her future husband behind.

Since there was no marriage, the relationship between Morrighan and Dalbreck gets hanging by a thread, and she is accused of treason. Her own father sends bounty-hunters, an assassin from Venda wants to kill her and a prince that wants to know her are tracking her every move, life couldn't get easier for a girl who wants to start over. When she gets to Terravin, Lia starts working as a maid, helping serving tables, cleaning the rooms and even in the kitchen, everything it's so different of what she's used to. Eventually the Prince and the Assassin arrive and it's when things start to get interesting for Lia.

Once I started this one I was like 'C'mon girl seriously? You fled your country because you didn't want to marry a prince, ok you didn't know him but...', in the beginning Lia was this rich girl that wanted freedom from her duty and traditions, she didn't want to be another soldier on her father's army. After a few chapters I started to understand that for once Lia wanted to make her on choices, her own mistakes and learn from them. She just wanted to live her life like any other normal girl, but she was a little bit naive, what was really happening outside her castle walls she didn't have any knowledge of the truth.

What I really liked about this book was that I didn't know who was the Prince and who was the Assassin, the majority of the chapters are Lia's POV and others are The Assassin and The Prince. In the first half of the book I thought the prince was one of the boys [Kaden] and was so sorry for him, the boy was left behind by his soon to be wife without explanation, he was so sweet and then boom.

Lia was naive before; then she was happy and loved; now she's destroyed, everything she loved was left behind and another truth was discovered.

We see the characters grow up, showing who they really are and their intensions. At the end Lia isn't the seventeen year old girl who fled her wedding, she is a woman who have suffered and wants revenge.

Fantastic writting, an amazing new world, captivating characters, and I'm ready for the next one, excited for the new adventures of Lia, Rafe and Kaden.

“Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It’s calculating and cold,” I told him. “Especially when aimed at the one you profess to love.” He paused mid-swipe as if I had swatted him on the back of the head. “And if one can’t be trusted in love,” I added, “one can’t be trusted in anything.”

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