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This book is awful. Two stars for the interesting concept but the execution doesn't live up to the idea. The writing is extremely cliched and has no subtlety or nuance. The plot slogs forward in spite of the characters' apparent lack of skills and means. Major events happen with no build up and characters change their entire trajectories based on a conversation or random suggestion. I saw nothing in the description to suggest a romance element to the plot, but there definitely is one and it's the worst part of the whole mess. The author's attempts at sexy dialog are pretty lame and the internal monologues are even worse. To quote directly from the book, "A man sat atop the horse’s strong back, his legs grasping tight to the horse’s barrel, reminding Tressa of her own legs wrapped around Bastian a few short hours ago." SERIOUSLY? Seeing a guy riding a horse is supposed to be a turn on for the main character? Cringeworthy lines like that made me give up about halfway through. I did want to know how things turned out, but I couldn't deal with the poor writing long enough to get through the book.