The Betrayals is a puzzle that combines love, hate, intrigue, mystery, friendship, enemies and a wisdom that comes from higher learning. In this way, it is like the grand jeu it mentions so many times and that the entire story is about. However, why this book is extremely intriguing and has multiple plot twists that keep you turning page after page, it has a similar flaw as The Binding and that this book does a lot of tell where it doesn’t show. Because of this, it reads a bit as a play. Made to physically show something, but it doesn’t as there is no play or movie to show us. Of course, that leaves many things to the imagination which some readers might greatly enjoy but personally it made me feel like I truly missed the pieces that would have made this book absolutely great. The same feeling I had with The Binding, unfortunately.