[Disclaimer: I received an ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review] 
 "I'm a fool. An utter fool." 
 Oh yes, my dear queen Haven, you are a fool indeed. I suppose I'll never understand how that mind of yours works. Do you want some examples to explain why I'm so perplexed about her? 
 1) She's a princess (now a queen) but she doesn't know totally nothing about her reign. I understand that she wasn't supposed to become queen that soon, but has she lived in a bubble for 19 years of what? She is not even able to tell what the main resources of her reign are! 
 2) She treats some of her guards as bestfriends and when one of them almost chokes to death another guard after stopping her she just says "It's ok! I know you didn't mean it!" 
 3) She refuses to send her soldiers in aid of other reigns under attack, but one the one in danger is her friend's one she goes (leaving her kingdom alone obviously) with just 100 soldiers (when armies of thousands were defeated) and even expects to take the city back. I mean... really? 
 Other two aspects that made this reading so hard are: 
 1) all dialogues and no descriptions. I'm the first who's not that fan of long, endless descriptions, but at least a minimum of characterization (just eyes and hair don't count) and setting should be present. Instead I was lucky if it was described at least features of the places where the action took place. 
 2) the absent context. Ok, so there's an "evil queen" with dark magic trying to conquer all reigns. But how did she obtained the throne? How were the different reigns born? Many, too many questions without an answer. 
 Though the synopsis had caught my attention, at the end I was more than disappointed. Result: another series I will never finish added to the list.