This book is great. It is a bit on the darker subject of things, but the POV Character Sage is witty sarcastic and cunning which really drives the story.
The idea is, A kingdom is on the brink of civil war, and the royal family has been murdered. A the bout four years ago however, youngest son Jaron's ship was attacked by pirates when he was off to go to a foreign school. In order to bring the kingdom back together, one of the late King's Regents, a nobleman named Conner, buys four orphan boys in order to train them in two weeks to effectively impersonate Jaron before the one of the other Regents takes the crown and pushes everything down the sink.
Treason. Lovely.
From here on there will be spoilers so if you want to read the book feel free to just stop here.
The irony in the story is, the POV character Sage, who wins the contest and is chosen to be the one out of the three of them (the fourth gets killed off like 24 pages in as an example so the others won't run away) is actually Prince Jaron. Before the ship had actually set off, he had snuck off the ship through the porthole in his bunk, so he wasn't even on the ship to begin with! His father found him and told him to stay hidden, probably expecting something to happen where he'd need to step up to the throne. When they parted for the last time he gave him a stone of fools gold, and gave his highest Regent a note saying if a boy claims to be Prince Jaron, and gives you fools gold saying it's real, it is him; or something along those lines. That's a rough draft of what happens, I left out quite a bit so there's still quite a lot to the story if you read all of this and would like to read the other two books. You'll still need to read the first one.
The idea is, A kingdom is on the brink of civil war, and the royal family has been murdered. A the bout four years ago however, youngest son Jaron's ship was attacked by pirates when he was off to go to a foreign school. In order to bring the kingdom back together, one of the late King's Regents, a nobleman named Conner, buys four orphan boys in order to train them in two weeks to effectively impersonate Jaron before the one of the other Regents takes the crown and pushes everything down the sink.
Treason. Lovely.
From here on there will be spoilers so if you want to read the book feel free to just stop here.
The irony in the story is, the POV character Sage, who wins the contest and is chosen to be the one out of the three of them (the fourth gets killed off like 24 pages in as an example so the others won't run away) is actually Prince Jaron. Before the ship had actually set off, he had snuck off the ship through the porthole in his bunk, so he wasn't even on the ship to begin with! His father found him and told him to stay hidden, probably expecting something to happen where he'd need to step up to the throne. When they parted for the last time he gave him a stone of fools gold, and gave his highest Regent a note saying if a boy claims to be Prince Jaron, and gives you fools gold saying it's real, it is him; or something along those lines. That's a rough draft of what happens, I left out quite a bit so there's still quite a lot to the story if you read all of this and would like to read the other two books. You'll still need to read the first one.
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