1st Five Star Read of the Year!!!

Dance of Thieves by Mary E. Peterson *SPOILER VERSION*

This book has a bit of everything: action, adventure, enemies to lovers, backstabbing, secrets, intrigue, confessions. I was giggling and smiling pretty much the entire time. They are chained together and the only way they will survive is if they work together. Then they kiss to "make the best of it" after telling each other riddles and stories to help them sleep. And then they start to learn about each other and suddenly they might not be enemies. Normally I hate secret keeping as a plot device, but it worked because of Kazi's job. And then Jace kept secrets too, but he was keeping them until he gained more information. But, when it was time for the big escape it was foiled, and for a while it was made to seem like Kazi got the sleeping medicine before Jace noticed and it would work, but she didn't. Then Jace got himself captured, and one of Kazi's friends thinks he did it on purpose to protect her *swoon*. She finally told him the truth about why she was there, and about the person she was sent to capture, as well as the others that she captured, and he didn't believe her at first. Then, he was their actions for himself and suddenly he did. Kazi gets her captives to the queen and the queen asks to hear about all of them; she spends quite a bit of time talking about Jace and his family. So much so that the queen summons him from his cell. The queen ships them!!! She acknowledged him and his right to rule, then she made it so that Kazi had to go back with him as an ambassador, because she heard how Kazi talked about him and noticed how they looked at each other. The queen is doing some real wing woman work. At the end of the book we find out that while they were traveling his home was attacked and we have no idea who is alive, who is dead, who is friend, and who is foe.The ending set up book 2 beautifully. I am obsessed and can't wait to listen to the next one!