I waited until the Light Novel publication to read this volume. The story was surprisingly idealistic in the way pretty much all people behave sensibly and unselfishly. In particular Ryan, Layala and Carolus shown to be the ideals of chivilric kings without any of the practicality of needing levels of compromised exploitation to lead and rule a populace.
That on top of all the People of the Forest coming around the save the day rather then their earlier depictions as cautious secretive people who appear randomly and disappear just as quickly without risking their knowledge to outsiders (as previously described in the first two volumes). Of course I am willing to see that they bent their ethics somewhat to appeal to Misha.
Another thing that strikes me is a total lack of consideration for the taking away of Misha and locking her away from her duties as the scion of a noble house and hostage. Even if Ryan was not interested in the scenario her father would desire the care and looking after of his daughter.
Finally I was saddened to see the undercurrent of Lolita leanings with people being fascinated by Misha to develop to a full on underhanded symbolic confession of love between a 20 something and a 13 or 14 year old girl.
Otherwise it was a nice read, a bit less fairy-tale then the previous two novels, and the only danger being a half paragraph of slightly angry people gave it a very safe feel despite the theme of a plague outbreak. I think I liked Nel the most as he had the most sense of having his own agendas around his actions.
Perhaps the most fairy-tale thing about the volume is how so many people she encountered last two volumes all turned up to help at exactly the right timings.