“She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.”
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BLURB: Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Now she returns to the empire - to confront the shadows of her past ...
Bloodthirsty for revenge on the two men responsible for destroying her life, and desperate to find out if the prince and his captain are safe, Celaena returns to Rifthold. She has accepted her identity as Aelin Galathynius, the lost Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, there are dark truths to learn and debts to be paid. Aelin must stay hidden beneath her assassin's hood and draw on her mortal strength as Celaena to prevent the King of Adarlan from tearing her world apart. Only then can she fight for her people.
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BOOK REVIEW
To Note: Book 4 in the Throne of Glass series, must be read in order
Plot: 4.5/5
Characters: 5/5
Writing Style: 5/5
Personal Enjoyment: 5 /5
Overall Rating: /20
It is impossible to talk about everything I want to without spoilers, so this review will be brief! QoS is the most action packed book yet! We are introduced to unsavoury characters from Celaena's past. Giving us glimpses to what Celaena's life was like pre-Throne of Glass and the King's Competition. This book has felt grander in scale in so many ways. The cast of characters is ever growing. The story arcs are progressing with all the other characters( I hesitate to call them secondary characters, they are far too integral to the plot to be considered as such) And Celaena has finally accepted who she is meant to be. The character development she goes through is amazing. We get to see a confident, self assured, woman who is no longer a pawn. She is planning, strategising and putting things in motion. And in consequence we are getting an ever more complex plot!
I have a slight annoyance though with another character's development or regression? Maas sure likes to "Tamlin" some characters doesn't she?? Poor Chaol slowly turned bad to further the plot as opposed to a natural side effect of his personality.
Having said that Maas handles all of Caelena's transition of feelings well, you believe their development implicitly. She is not portrayed as a girl jumping from on relationship to the next, instead we see how her feelings develop slowly and over time, and Maas highlights how relationships are just as much forged by external factors as they are by the feelings of the two individuals in question.
All in all, another great instalment, made me dive right into Book 5, Empire of Storms as soon as I was finished with this one!
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MORE FAVOURITE QUOTES:
“But she was her own champion now.”
“We’re not going to hell, Aelin,” he said. “But wherever we go, we’ll go together.”
“To whatever end.”