I got this for free as part of Stuff Your Kindle Day. You know those pranks where someone wraps a series of progressively smaller boxes inside of one big one, so you keep opening each smaller box hoping that this one'll be the one that has the present that you wanted, but when you finally open the last box, it's just a tiny bit of nothing if not outright empty? That's what reading this felt like. I kept hoping there'd be some nugget of goodness like the storyline or just something I could bite my teeth into, but alas. The amateurish prose just led to inconsistent characters, clunky exposition, choppy sentences, anachronistic dialog, and much more. On top of its heavy use of tropes—e.g. an overpowered heroine (who somehow still ends up a damsel in distress) with a gaggle of guys all in insta-love with her—just made for an unengaging read. I'll still probably read the second book since it's just the one and I am apparently an optimist. Here's to hoping...