#solvethis

The book in question: Read it around 2018-2019. Book might have been published around 2016, but maybe my mind just contoured that up.

Cover was a pale-ish pink, reddish, maybe even peach/orange. Think there was a girl with two swords posing on it, or no swords at all, leaning more to the right.

The main character’s (female) name started with an “N...” I think, or a “Na’...” (with an apostrophe I think). Her best friend’s (female) name perhaps started with an “R…”, and the best friend often trained with a dagger(? knife?) in a training area (I remember imagining it in a courtyard with orange-ish walls around it but that could just be how I visualized it). They sparred together at one point, and it described how well her best friend fought.

There might have been shapeshifters?

There was an evil villain dude, who might have wanted the main character, either for love or control.

The best friend almost got killed by a snake hiding in her room, which lunged from her trunk chest and had been underneath her silk/clothes? Main character saw it in time and Idk what happened.

The most distinct/important part I remembered was at the end, as climax/resolution, and a wedding took place. Throughout the course of the wedding, at the end of it, (I remember this part being quite long but I enjoyed it), almost every single character got up at one point in time and revealed their own secrets, each secret having an impact on certain characters or events. Don’t remember what they were, but almost from each character, like maybe 5+ twists and secrets that had been kept from each other. Her best friend had some secret kept from the main character.