I originally thought The Demon King moved at a very slow and descriptive pace in order to lay the foundations for the rest of the series. While this was true, The Exiled Queen still started off in the same excruciatingly slow pace, depicting Han and Raisa's less-than-memorable travels across the realms to Oden's Ford. They didn't arrive at Oden's Ford until Chapter 11 (where things finally started getting interesting) and they didn't bump into each other until Chapter 22 (22??!) more than halfway into the book. 
 Don't get me wrong, I do love the descriptive world-building and the whole Game of Thrones meets Harry Potter vibe, but if The Gray Wolf Throne moves at the same slow pace, I might actually lose my patience.