Bonds of Brass

Bonds of Brass sounded like a lot of fun: space opera with a prince in disguise whose best friend/crush had no idea about his identity until others try to assassinate him. And it is fun and generally fast-paced with all that going down in the first 20 pages, but I didn't find the characters compelling enough for it to be a book that really stuck with me. (Plus the further I got into the book, the more I felt that Ettian could do so much better than the friend he's in love with, whose charisma and good qualities seemed stronger in Ettian's memories than in the present.)

But I did like Wen, Ettian, and their friendship and it did keep me interested enough to finish reading it, although I doubt I'll be reading the sequel.

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