Mara grew up on us! Watching her go from innocent 11 year old to a grown young woman working as a spy. The war has been raging for so long, and Mara has changed so much. To really understand how much you’ll need to read the first two books, and I think it’s actually pretty important to the story. Mara is now stuck between wanting to end a war before it spreads, and realizing she may not have turned out to be the person she thought she was. A peek inside the roughness of war and what it means when you grow up under the weight of it. How far would you go to try and stop the war from spreading? ( )