I was soooooo excited to read this book! I'm a big Garth Nix fan and have liked everything of his that I've ever read. And I owe a big thanks to the HarperTeen rep who gave me this copy!!! Thank you so much! This book won out (as first to be read) over all the other ARCs I picked up at ALA. A Confusion of Princes comes out in April 2012.

The story is just so cool. Khemri is a Prince of the Empire. He has been specially trained, and brought up to expect that his every whim will be obeyed and fulfilled. This expectation is quickly dispelled when an assassin tries to kill him and Khemri finds that the real world is not exactly as he dreamed.

I don't want to spoil anything, but all kinds of adventures are in store for Khemri. Seriously, there is nonstop action in this book! If anything, I wanted things to slow down so I could have more time with Khemri. This is a stand-alone title, and the end is quite satisfying, but I can't help wishing for a sequel or series to come from this awesome intergalactic world that Nix has created.

Here's the Amazon book description-because I can't begin to do the plot justice: A major standalone space opera, this is Garth Nix's first novel for older readers since the conclusion of the Old Kingdom trilogy! and it's worth the wait. A grand adventure that spans galaxies and lifetimes, A Confusion of Princes is also a page-turning action adventure. These are the three deaths of Prince Khemri. Told in his own words, we follow him as he trains to become a Prince of the Empire, an enhanced human being, equipped with biological and technological improvements that make him faster, stronger and smarter than any ordinary person. Not to mention the ultimate benefit: should he die, and be deemed worthy, he will be reborn! Which is just as well, because no sooner has Prince Khemri graduated to full Princehood than he learns the terrible truth behind the Empire: there are a million princes, and all of them want each other dead, because there can only be one Emperor!