Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. 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…. She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight. She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.
EPIC, BADASS and OFF THE CHARTS AWESOME. Sarah J. Maas you have done it again. You have managed to tease out every emotion from the human spectrum with Queen of Shadows. Fear, for the characters’ safety. Horror, at the monsters at Morath. Courage, for a disabled slave. Happiness, at characters reunited. Loneliness, for those being pushed away. Pain. Love. Humility. Sadness, upon reaching the end of the book.
Great Female Characters. A Little Too Much Relationship Focus. *****Shorter Spoiler Free Review*****
“Things Changed. I Changed.” Maturing Characters, Maturing Story line – I Couldn’t Put it Down! Sarah J. Maas has created a fantastic, maturing series where her characters (like in real life) change and evolve. In Queen of Shadows, she continues to flesh out increasingly three-dimensional characters that (despite living in a world of magic) grapple with real-life problems.Other reviewers have complained that their favorite characters behave so much differently than how they were originally written–but this is exactly what I loved about this novel. I could not put it down–our main…