What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I listened to this book as an audiobook on Spotify, around 2020/2021, it may be a part of a trilogy.
I remember that it's about a young man whose community was killed and wants to exact revenge on the people who gave the order to do so. He enters a highly regarded and honored contest to become the main guard of the royal family, in which he has to prove his worth. He really hopes to get close to the general who gave the order, and is just pretending.
The book only takes place in the castle in which he and all of the other contestants (who come from rich families) live in, they even have servants and stuff.
There's a lot of backstabbing and I think he almost gets killed a few times.
I also remembers that a rich girl teaches him how to read/write and he kind of falls in love with her but she's the daughter of the general he wants to kill.

That sounds a lot like Mask of Shadows by Lindsey Miller https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sho...

Dee wrote: "That sounds a lot like Mask of Shadows by Lindsey Miller https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sho..."

yes omg thats it! thank u so much! i didn't remember the main character was gender fluid

Glad you found your book, Annaelle.

Mask of Shadows (book 1) of the Mask of Shadows series by Linsey Miller - Dee's find.