Akiva Reads

by Garth Nix

Nothing special. I wanted this to be better than it was.

The awkward exposition and the classism both jumped out. Oh, of course it's the surly maid's fault, duh, nothing more to it. Of course Truthful is beautiful and happens to be fabulously wealthy and has a huge pack of suitors, and the one she picks is the most fabulously wealthy of them all. Also, the book calls her Truthful about 30x as much as it calls her Newt, which is really stretching the definition of a nickname.