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All those exclamation marks!! I usually don’t notice them while reading, but with this one, once you see them you really cannot unsee them.
Aside from that, a promising start to a series.

"Ask me not if God exists, but why he's such a prick" - one of the best book openers ever.

"He held his breath for a moment when he realized what he had just discovered. He skimmed back through the book, finding the king’s ancestors. All of them were dark haired and dark eyed. He remembered when Queen Elenor had visited in the autumn. She also had darker hair, and he was told, brown eyes. He shook his head and looked again in the book, suddenly grasping what was before him." Kind of familiar, isn't it?

“Purity without balance is its own corruption.”

“Her face was a white knife in the darkness of his mind, and he buried her deep within his heart as he yielded to the wisdom of his brother.”

“He had often looked into the darkness. For the first time, the darkness had looked back, and it was amused.”