Review: Review by Stephanie Green ([...])
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2012
This book is about a Kingdom which is made up of normal, "common" people and also the "empowered".  These empowered possess a wide array of telepathic powers.  The empowered here are only allowed to be of the noble blood, royal, and live within the Kingdom itself, free to showcase their abilities at will.The "common" are believed to be powerless and, if one so happens to have these abilities, they must hide them from all others, or face arrest and death. One such young man is Anson, a very powerful boy living with his mother in the outlying town of Hylen.When Anson is sent to the Kingdom to enlist in it's army, as apparently all common males do at a certain age, his mother is fearful of his discovery.  Although he is very skilled at shielding his power from being detected, one royal is powerful enough to sense him;  immediately, a connection is made between the two.  The girl, Lydia, is a princess and is unwillingly betrothed to the heinous Prince Tenen.We follow the two as they discover each other's love and eventually attempt to escape the Kingdom.I enjoyed this book quite a bit, actually.  The abilities of the society were quite impressive and interesting.  I felt like there was a bit of drama and action, but could have been more.The only thing, though, that really disappointed me was the ending.. I would have liked just a few more pages, just to give us a bit more of an idea of how the lives of the main characters eventually panned out.  There was a very brief bit about it, but not nearly enough.  All in all, a very good book, though.I give this book 3 stars.