Despite the results of my poll, I’m not going to tandem read for my first read-through of the series..we’ll se show that goes

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As I write this the tears are streeaming down my face.

Never in my life have I ever felt so much emotion from a book before.

I mean I have felt every emotion you can think of from reading this book.

Sadness…you got it

Betrayal…you got it

Optimistic…you got it

Desperate…you got it

Literally every emotion ever.

I mean come on. That ending. It was so dramatic. It had me hating every single character and loving every single character.

Sarah J. Maas has never ceased to amaze me. She is my role model in life. I wish I had an eighth of her skill. I can barely write a 500 word review on her book without feeling sucky. Imagine writing the entire Throne of Glass series which has about 1,393,501 words. (That is probably not exact, some books I could not find the exact total so I took the best guess the websites could come up with.) I love Maas and everything she does.

Most readers have already read the series and if you have not I cannot do much in ways of reviewing it that does not spoil previous books. But, if you have not read the Throne of Glass series, READ IT! It has magic. It has adventure. It has a bad*ss b*tch who does is a role model for girls around the world (other than the whole assassin thing). The love stories and love triangles are amazing. It is just all around amazing and you will cry. I promise, you will cry.

This is literally one of the best published works out there that someone will ever read.

I have two more books of the series to read. I will be sad to let it go but watch out for my other reviews about it.

As always, thanks for reading

A Bookie

Star Rating: 5

I read this as a tandem read with Empire of Storms (using the guide from T.L. Branson) and I'm really glad I did and would highly recommend that to others. Between the two, EOS was the show stopper for sure. All my favorite ladies finally coming together?? SJM, you shouldn't have.

Soo much happened in this book, but the crowning moment was absolutely chapters 17 and 18 with Manon. Suffice to say my notes simply say "SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP" and I absolutely stand by that! Give me a Manon spinoff N O W!! It's a 5 star read honestly just for that because I will absolutely push friends to read this whole series just to get to that moment and swear it's worthwhile. Other high points/characters were definitely Aelin and Lysandra and I'll even throw Rowan in there, but Elide and Dorian and Aedion were really lackluster. Elide in particular...I know that girl is eventually going to do *something* but can she speed it up a bit??

One thing this book did make me realize is I really should have paid more attention to the history bits from the past several books. I was super confused trying to remember who was a god, versus just some powerful ancestor, and what relationship they all had to one another. Those characters popped up a lot more here and maybe I'd have enjoyed that more if I'd already been invested in their drama and story lines, as opposed to feeling like they're just randomly there and messing with things all of a sudden. On the topic of paying attention earlier on, I also should have kept better track of physical descriptions because I was somehow shocked when reminded that Dorian had dark hair? I swear he was blonde? Lysandra too??

And as one final note, as I said I my TOD review, the men were really acting up in both EOS and TOD.... award for most ridiculous man moment in this book is actually a tie between two idiots, first being Lorcan calling Elide a "stupid fool," followed pages later by Aedian telling Lysandra to "go to hell, you lying bitch." All because both women wanted to *checks notes* help the queen they love and swore to serve. I am searching high and low for where these dumb jocks managed to find the audacity?? Straight to jail for those two.