Queen's Shadow

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I admit the beginning was quite slow, but once Padmè and the gang landed on Coruscant I ran through 200 pages.
Mind you, this is not a book full of action. It mostly focuses on Padmès early life as a senator and her struggles.

This book was a fun read about Padmè that most people had been asking for for some time. Taking place in between TPM and AotC—leaving years of time that could have had anything happen within the new canon—had me hopeful for something I didn't receive. Anakin is mentioned as “the boy” during the story and by name once in the epilogue which really does itself no justice because there seemingly won't be a sequel?
Don't get me wrong I found the story to be worthwhile and entertaining enough to finish it in just a few days. However, I feel as if rating it higher would be offensive to the other Star Wars books because nothing happens. I mean literally nothing at all.
This is practically a handbook on handmaidens.