To my friends and lovers of this series, please don’t kill me for this. The first half of this book kind of bored me to death a little bit ngl. I'm listening to the series in the order they happen chronologically and up until this one, the series has been getting better and better for me. However, the majority of this book bored me to death. I don't know why, I just have no emotional connection to these characters.

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I didn't love the ending of this book. I hate that Dorian killed his father with so much hatred in his heart despite his father telling his side of the story. Don't get me wrong, I really hated the dude. But we don't even know a whole lot about how Dorian's relationship with his father was when he was younger, so to only have a little bit of his humanity shown at the end just didn't sit well with me. I would've liked it more I think if there was a possibility for the king to become good again and have a good relationship with his son. However, I understand why this was important for the plot to have Dorian become the king.

Chaol, I still don't know how I feel about him. I just don't love him that much unfortunately.

I like Aedian a lot. That's all I really have to say about him. I just like him.

Rowan is alright. I don't really care a whole lot about him either but I like him.

Dorian!! I enjoyed his presence in the last bit of the book.

Celaena continued to grow and develop as a character. I enjoyed how everyone came together at the end and stood behind her.

This book could have been a whoolleee lot shorter. And I still don't love all the chapters with the witches. I get why there were there now but my overall feeling about them is just meh.

Don't get me wrong, there were some good moments in this book. Like...well I can't really think of one off the top of my head. But there were a handful (maybe less) of times where I was like oh! okay!

3/5 stars for me unfortunately. Again, I really wish I enjoyed this series more and it lived up to its hype. I may do a re read if I ever feel like it (doubt it) where I read them in order of publication or whatever order offers a more emotional impact because ugh. This series is exhausting me. I'm going to finish it so I can have a full opinion of it, but right now it's not looking good.