Aelin has risked everything to save her people-but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day…
With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they've gathered to battle Erawan's hordes might not be enough to save them. Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian are forced to forge their own paths to meet their fates. Hanging in the balance is any hope of salvation-and a better world.
And across the sea, his companions unwavering beside him, Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen-before she is lost to him forever.
As the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight, if they are to have a chance at a future. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever in the explosive final chapter of the Throne of Glass series.
My Thoughts:
Overall, with most ends, this one was inevitable and much awaited, yet at the end, it was a little bittersweet. Did it end the way I thought it would? Probably. Was I satisfied with the end? Mostly. After all, this is the culmination novel of 10 years of work by Ms. Maas. I don't know what it is like for an author to say goodbye to a character after that much time, but this is the author's goodbye to this world, to these people, and to this journey. So the question is really about if it was a satisfactory end for her? Was she surprised when these characters that she created did or did not do what she planned for them to do all those years ago when they were just words on paper?
As a reader, I felt like the author was hesitant to let go, so some parts dragged on just so that the characters could continue to live and fight and carry on. I think J.K. Rowling did the same thing in her series, taking time for Ron, Hermione and Harry to look for the horcrux as a battle ensued and Voldemort and his followers got stronger. So too, the search for the wyrdkeys slowed the pace down a little as well as Aelin's capture in the iron coffin.
My only spoiler alert is that the wydrkey conclusion was very anticlimactic. All that work for nothing. And what is with that exchange? Again, for naught except loss. I am ok with the loss of her power, but I am still confused with the exchange.
Favorite female power moment: the healer is more powerful than the warrior.
Finally, a character dies. Did I want another character to die? Yes. There needed to be multiple losses, as well as someone of major significance. The power, I think, in these girl power YA fantasy books is that the true hero deals with loss and can still forge on because that too is modeling heroism.
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