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Secrets made you deadly
I don’t care how insignificant the lesson is, I love it when books teach me things.
This book is about love, feminism and the importance of family. Other than this little lesson, I’m truly disappointed. Because I was amazed by the first two books of the Throne of Glass series and I was happy to have finally found another series that I could obsess over and now I’m not happy anymore. Everything went down from the third book: the storyline and especially the characters. I mean – what happened?
What the hell happened to the character of Chaol? I feel like Sarah J. Maas woke up one day and decided that she didn’t like Chaol anymore and just completely shred his character to pieces. And I’m really angry about this, because he was such an important character in the first two books and his storyline was build-up so good! We barely see him in Heir of Fire and let alone in this book where I felt like Sarah wanted us to hate him. This is what it felt like, and I suspect we won’t even see him anymore in the fifth book. And let’s not even talk about his relationship with Celaena/Aelin. What happened to their love? To those promises? I was just really confused about all of this because they were so in love with each other and suddenly Rowan comes in and everything is forgotten? I was like – whaaat? And don’t even start talking me it was because of Nehemia. I get it, I get it that Chaol did a mistake but it just felt exaggerating the way Aelin acted toward Chaol like he’s the only one who makes mistakes. Rowan seems more like a fill-in, like Sarah was pushing us to love him. Between the third book and the fourth there’s just a massive hole. Suddenly Continue reading