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faythfarrar's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
mlottermoser's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Murder
tiernanalexandria's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
We still love all of the characters from previous books, but the new characters we meet find their way into our hearts too.
Maas lights a small candle flame of hope in our hearts when all feels like despair.
We are rooting for Aelin, to whatever end. 🖤🙌🏻
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Deadnaming, Slavery, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Colonisation
Feral for Rowan.nimeneth's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This one starts slow and has more world-building right at the beginning. We're on a different continent so it's useful and important information, but between the new info, cast of characters, and Celaena/Aelin's dark emotiotional state, there was some effort required to get going. Manon is interesting and I can't wait to see what happens with the Thirteen and Abraxos. Also I'm curious to see what Chaol gets up to moving forward. He's very.... Chaol-y, but still. What's your next move, bud?
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Grief
cineladeras's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail
incognitoexisting's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius—and she would not be afraid.
3.5☆ but I still enjoyed it pretty much a lot. I couldn't put it down.
The writing is really good, addictive. The world, the magic, Celaena's adventures - all were very interesting to see. Not gonna lie, I was here mainly for Celaena kicking the King's ass and Chaol and Dorian helping her in that. I mostly enjoyed the book, however! There were triggering upsetting moments present (
P.S. it's really cute that Sarah Maas included her dog in acknowledgements!
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Vomit
miss_berry315's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Every storyline was interesting and served to move the plot forward in a way that made sense.
Celaena's character growth in this was great. This book really feels like a turning point in the series, and I love it!
As usual, SJM puts the last 20% of the book in chaos mode and I have never been more grateful to not have to wait for the next book in a series to come out.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Slavery, and Torture
nattylibrary_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Physical abuse
Minor: Emotional abuse
darkpizza's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Medical content, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and Alcohol
eemi42's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
The story opens into an ensemble cast, with Celaena/Aelin and Rowan (my new favorite character, sorry Chaol) in Wendlyn; Chaol, Dorian, Sorscha, and Aedion in Rifthold; and Manon and the Ironteeth witches in the Ferian gap. Additionally, as more information about Celaena was revealed, she became more 3D, more likeable. I find it easy to identify with and root for her now.
I'm still not sure where things are headed with Manon.
There were some themes in this book that reminded me of A Court of Silver Flames, like Celaena feeling useless and avoiding her responsibilities until forced training helps her out of it. I enjoyed it then and I enjoy it now. Though—dare I say it—this might be a better series than ACOTAR.
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail