Hence, nothing seemed to be a surprise when magic and immortals existed, right? After all, it was a weird combination of Fae, Demi-Fae, Shapeshifter, the Valg Princes, dark forces of magic, and humans.

I really love the dramatic transformation in them.

I didn’t particularly like them before, but in Queen of Shadows, OMG, they were AWESOME! In a nutshell, some of the good guys before turned out to the evil demons, and some of the bad people or should I say…”creatures” ended up to be the best characters I’ve ever read so far. What surprised me most was the witchlings. You would meet our previous acquaintances from the first to third book, but you would also make new friends here. I mean, it was the tremendous anticipation that drew my attention to all the trivial stuff they did. The author always kept the secret for a certain mission and you would figure out what was going on only when you’ve experienced them by yourself later. Honestly, I was overwhelmed with endless curiosity, high expectation, and unbearable excitement while flipping pages after pages of this book. You never knew what they were going to do, what plans they had in mind, or how their strategies would map out. As for the story, so many things happened in this single book and most of them were amazingly unexpected to me. I gradually got used to this sort of presentation and Sarah managed to express the various emotions perfectly with different protagonists. Let me start with a brief, non-spoiler review here.Īs usual, the story was written in a third-person POV, but this time, we could see the whole picture through several characters’ eyes, such as Dorian, Chaol, Aelin, Manon, and even Rowan, to name a few. Maas’ writing style) the casualty and damage they caused were incomprehensible, and the aftermath was hard to endure, this book still fascinated me from the first page throughout the ending. Because of the magic elements, even though the means those main characters used were extremely cruel (duh, typical Sarah J. All I can say is that the entire series got more and more intriguing and the fighting scenes took the brutality and bloodshed to a whole new level. This is my most favorite book among the Throne of Glass series, including those novellas. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But she’s at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past… Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her.

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