It's Theo's second year at the academy, and his group has been assigned to the palace for his journeyman training year. The problem is, politics are in the air, and of course, it doesn't take long for Theodore to get mixed up in things.
I just started reading this story. It has gone completely off the rails.
After what the protagonist did to the "Prince" in the last book, Why. Is. He. Not. Fleeing. The. Country?
The story is nice fiction, but no rationality remains.
ADDENDUM: In the middle of a civil war, the protagonist suddenly decides that the opposition might be innocent victims of mind control. He then decides to fight a civil war with non-lethal attacks....REALLY?!?!?! Idiocy of the level means that I am taking a star off of my original review. :-(
The former bad ass 50+ year old killer transposed into a child's body suddenly misplaces his spine and joins Greenpeace. Incongruent, much? Mary Poppins would be more effective than this character in a war zone.
I do like this series. I liked this book. I hated, no, loathed the ending. To say it was abrupt would be the understatement of the decade. I might be the only one bothered by that, but it is enough for me to walk away from this series.