Radiance

I greatly enjoyed the relationship in this first book, I would love to read an entire book of just them two developing themselves as characters as well as their relationship. The focus instead was 50/50 relationship to plot building. While the plot was entertaining I will always prefer to learn more about the characters than the development of the storyline.

I won't be continuing with the series based on the direction the epilogue is taking the series. I don't care for the 180 in storyline and think it's a bit on the nose to take it in that direction. Since the author highlighted during multiple conversations that the two main characters had with each other and other people that they were "not important" to the succession of the throne - it seems almost too predictable that the plot twist of the second book is that now they're the successors.