So this book basically starts out with the leading lady who is a knight. She ends up ending a war that’s been taking place for like I wanna say like 37 years or something like that. So there’s all of these rumors surrounding her as the captain of the 12th order and everybody thinks she’s a man. But she ends up meeting the crown prince on the way to the palace because the emperor is like “I wanna meet the captain of the 12th order”. So he has an immediate attraction to her but he’s like your classic playboy prince who’s rude, obnoxious, really full of himself, and is not a good person. So he realizes that she’s super super loyal. Her loyalty goes beyond what he thinks and he really notices that after he takes her to the ball. So at the ball everybody’s like oh my gosh she’s so pretty. I wanna dance with her blah blah blah and he ends up sleeping with her that night out of jealousy and possessiveness. The next day his brother is like oh she can’t really be a knight or the captain of the 12th order and he raises his sword at her and she doesn’t pull her sword out. So the crown prince ends up taking the hit for her (even though she was gonna avoid it) and he gets upset. This is when they have their first of many of the same fights. He was like “oh if he would asked you to do something risqué you would’ve listened to him anyways?” and so then he asked her to do something risqué and she listened to him because of her loyalty. And then he’s like I don’t wanna see you anymore. So she starts avoiding him because he asked her to. And this is when she meets her adoptive parents and swiftly moves out of his palace into her adoptive parents’ home. Then he realizes that he needs to be near her. After sleeping with her the one time he’s never been able to sleep the same. So come to find out he would work really hard and then on the brink of almost exhaustion he would sleep with a girl and then he would be able to go to sleep because he had really bad insomnia. But after being with her, he didn’t have to work really hard or sleep with anybody, he could just go to sleep. His insomnia was cured by her but only if he’s near her or sees her or something like that. So he goes crazy and is destroying rooms and threatening people and all of the stuff just because she’s avoiding her and he can’t see her. Then in a stroke of genius, he realizes that he’s in love with her so he starts to treat her like — I don’t know — a human being and nice. So he starts dressing up nice and trying to appease her so that she will want to stay with him. But in her mind she’s like oh he’s just the Playboy (which he is) and at some point his affection is gonna run out and he’s gonna go onto the next girl. But either way they have this ongoing annoying misunderstanding where he’s like “oh she’ll never wanna be with me for me. She’s just doing this out of loyalty because I’m the crown prince. She could have anybody she wanted and she wouldn’t choose me. I’m just not good enough for her” blah blah blah. And she has a similar type of thing where she’s like “He’s gonna get tired of me at some point and go to somebody else so she’s like I don’t wanna give him my love and then be devastated”. Then come find out his younger brother ends up trying to stage a coup so they go to war. The brother and a lot of people think that the crown prince is actually the emperor’s brother son when he is actually the emperor son so he does have his right to the throne. She ends up pregnant (more like he purposefully got her pregnant). They finish the war but she ends up dying by the trashcan dumpster second leading man, and then the Crown prince tries to take his own life, but they stop him and she ends up coming back to life… whatever. They get married they have a baby that’s the end of the story. And all of the stuff in the middle is a literally them just dealing with their relationship and then just random people fighting. The only good thing about this book was the emperor and her adoptive parents like when I tell you they made the book. I also did like the dressmaker and the princess. Overall, the book was more of a tedious read and I’m just glad that I’m done. I don’t think I would read it again.
Side note: I know that the LL is supposed to be a really good knight but it’s not really believable. Like she’s so small and skinny but she can run as fast as a horse and she’s stronger than most of the other knights... I’m not believing it but that’s OK.
Crows like Shiny Things