Something that I particularly liked about this series was that it was given enough time to develop. I like that it didn't follow the regular trilogy format that other YA books usually follow. It was given the appropriate amount of time to built tension, develop characters, etc. I do dislike Raisa, in a way. Or rather, I think it's unrealistic how ignorant she is about her country and it's poltics. It takes me out of the book a bit when she mentions how little she knows about her queendom.