I ended up liking Queen's Shadow the best out of this Queen's trilogy about Padme Amidala. Queen's Shadow is about her time in the Senate after being queen and navigating the various plots and scemes. Padme feels true to character, but you get to see a different side to her here. Very few things about the book really stand out - the writing is fine, the plot is fine, etc - but they also aren't really distracting. As long as you know that you're going into a young young-adult novel and you like Padme then I think you'll probably enjoy it.

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Catherine Taber and I liked the narration.