I got off to a bad start with it, I have to say, with the rather boring and repetitious "Prelude" which is set hundreds of years in the past, so has nothing to do with the characters of the main story but seems shoved in there simply to start the book with lots of fighting, then the "Prologue" with the young girls which could be omitted without any loss at all, then the first five chapters with four different POV characters, none of whom are connected, and which includes a dream sequence, of all things, solely designed to get in fighting which isn't otherwise there. And don't get me started on rebellious, feisty, teenage Princesses...
I'll probably see it through to the end, but I'm really not that impressed with the characterisation nor the dialogue, so I'm certainly not going to be rushing out to buy book 2, but I might pick it up if I came across it in a second hand stall, which is where I got this one, in fact.