Since you are wanting to know about the book, I will say there is justice in the end. Toward the end there does become more of a distinction between who is right and who is not and the main character does begin to show more concern for doing what is right against his own wishes. One loyal enough to murder and the other stops just short of murder but still stands by his master's actions and will still beat kids up for him.hmmm.
And his "servants" are also justified in carrying out his orders because they are loyal to him. There are several places that leave you wondering whether the villain is a true villain since he claims that his actions are necessary for the good of the country. There is a later scene where someone is cut with a knife. I wanted to know if this kind of violence continued and whether the author would bring justice and not leave a hazy view of right and wrong. That said, my son asked me to look at the book for him because he was not comfortable reading it. Who likes to read that? I am not concerned with the sword fights and there are beatings that are part of the danger of the book, but the murder scene was very heavy and without knowing where the book leads from there, it can be enough to not want to keep reading the book. I personally would not give this to my 10 year old to read on his own. Orphans are rounded up and one is shot to show the others what happens if they don't obey. There is a difference between action and danger for a teenage boy and the cold hearted cruelty of the murder of a child (a sick orphan, at that). That stopped my son from wanting to read it and I took the book to see what it was about. As already mentioned, there is a murder in the beginning of the book.
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