Alright, alright. Alright, alright, alright. Let's get this out of the way now. This book is trash. All the way, to the end of the road, it's absolute trash. And this was me: Gawd I loved this book. All the while I knew it was bad. Just down to it's very core it's a bad book. But it is so. damn. addictive. So Shazi's best friend Shiva has just been murdered by the King, Khalid. So she leaves her lover, Tariq and volunteers as tribute (sorry not sorry) to be Khalid's next wife. Now, let me get the complaining out of the way early. Shazi is annoying. Like very obtuse. She is full of pride (which I love) but she's very clumsy about how she goes about discovering the Khalid's secrets (which I hate) - which basically boils down to her whining to him a lot about them instead of doing any real investigation. Then there's the time when she pretends to everyone that she can't shoot arrows and lets herself be goaded into revealing that, actually, she's a great shot within like 5