Sarah J. Maas

Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?

Throne of Glass #3

Heir of Fire

"All I want, is for my people to be free and my queen restored to her throne."

"They burned the antler throne, Aedion. There is no throne for her."

"Then I'll build one myself from the bones of our enemies." 

Paige Leitner

She was as much a queen as Maeve. She was the sovereign of a strong people and a mighty kingdom. 

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one. 

She gritted her teeth. "You have experience- you are needed here. You are the only person who can give the demi-Fae a chance of surviving; you are trusted and respected. So I am staying. Because you are needed, and because I will follow you to whatever end." And if the creatures devoured her body and soul, then she would not mind. She had earned that fate. 

For a long moment, he said nothing. But his brows narrowed slightly. "To whatever end?" 

"You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love." He pitied Chaol he realized. His heart hurt for his friend, for all that Chaol had surely been realizing these past few months. "Just as you cannot pick which parts of me you accept."

"How- how did you come back from that kind of loss?"

"I didn't. For a long while I couldn't. I think I'm still... not back. I might never be."

She nodded, lips pressed tight, and glanced toward the window. 

"But maybe," he said, quietly enough that she looked at him again. He didn't smile, but his eyes were inquisitive. "Maybe we could find the way back together."

He would not apologize for today, or yesterday, or for any of it. And she would not ask him to, not now that she understood that in the weeks she had been looking at him it had been like gazing at a reflection. No wonder she had loathed him. 

"I think," she said, barely more than a whisper, "I would like that very much."

She studied the scarred, calluses palm, then the tattooed face, full of a grim sort of hope. Someone who might- who did understand what it was like to be crippled at your very core, someone who was still climbing inch by inch out of that abyss.

Perhaps they would never get out of it, perhaps they would never be whole again, but... "Together," she said, and took his outstretched hand. 

And somewhere far and deep inside her, an ember began to glow.

Each of the scars, the chipped teeth and broken claws, the mutilated tail- they weren't the markings of a victim. Oh, no. They were the trophies of a survivor. Abraxas was a warrior who'd had all the odds stacked against him and survived. Learned from it. Triumphed.

Maeson Grace

Golden chain and heavy, round medallion from beneath her nightgown and held it out to her. The Amulet of Orynth. 

 two prison wagons with them. One emitted a very distinct male odor-and perhaps a remnant of cologne. One was female. Both smelled wrong

Chaol had to clamp down on his terror as he beheld what glinted on Aedion's finger. A black ring the same that the king, Perrington 

He spoke the common tongue, and his accent was subtle- lovely, if she was feeling generous enough to admit it. A soft, rolling purr. 

Amanda Autumn Berrey

“I assume you normally fly right in and don’t deign to use the bridges,” she said to Rowan, who was frowning at the city, not looking very much like a warrior about to return home. He nodded distantly. He’d fallen silent in the past day—not rude, but quiet and vague, as if he were rebuilding the wall between them.

It was a message to the world. Aelin was a warrior, able to fight with blade or magic. And she was done with hiding.

“Your mother would be proud,” Emrys said.

“It might take a while, but if—when I reclaim my kingdom, the demi-Fae will always have a home there. And you two—and Malakai—will have a place in my household, should you wish it. As my friends.”

She knew where it was—the third and final Wyrdkey. It had been around her neck the night she fell into the river.

When Dorian had spoken, it hadn’t been a prince who looked at him. It had been a king.

“I need to go.” Dorian stalked to the stairs, and there was no fear in his face, no doubt, as he said, “You gave me the truth today, so I’ll share mine: even if it meant us being friends again, I don’t think I would want to go back to how it was before—who I was before. And this …” He jerked his chin toward the scattered crystals and the bowl of water. “I think this is a good change, too. Don’t fear it.”

“I think,” Chaol said, and Sorscha turned, brows high, ready to get to work. “I think,” he said again, smiling faintly, “that this kingdom could use a healer as its queen.”

And though she knew he could read the words on her face, she said, “To whatever end?” He nodded, and she joined hands with him, blood to blood and soul to soul, his other arm coming around to grip her tightly. Their hands clasped between them, he whispered into her ear, “I claim you, too, Aelin Galathynius.”

Rowan reached her, panting and bloody. She did not dishonor him by asking him to flee as he extended his bleeding palm, offering his raw power to harness now that she was well and truly emptied. She knew it would work. She had suspected it for some time now. They were carranam.

“Answer the question. Do you want to be king?” “If she asked me, I would not refuse her.” It was the truth.

“They burned the antler throne, Aedion. There is no throne for her.” “Then I’ll build one myself from the bones of our enemies.”

“What if she wishes to be your friend? Would you deny her that, too?” “I will deny her nothing.” “And if she asks you to be her king?” Aedion bared his teeth. “Enough.”

Rowan, Rowan, Rowan, Dorian😌, Rowan, Rowan, okay Aelin, Rowan, Dorian🥹, Rowan. 

Valentina Williams

Hanna Rybchynska

4,5 stars 

This is an amazing book! So much better than the first 2.
Here the romance is really important and sometimes I feel that it is the main plot of this series. Fortunately, the story is pretty good so the romance part is not that annoying. 

It is weird how SJM used the same romance idea here and in Crescent City... the main romance is enemies-to-lovers and it is also between a young girl and a really old man (I don't get how a grown man can actually fall in love with a young woman... ). 
sarcasm* He is old but still hot as hell, so the age doesn't matter! *sarcasm

It's the only problem for me with this book.

Slow! But it made me really emotional to see how our girl grows. Read it on the plane and cried 3 times. Big mistake!

ava 

The third instalment to the global #1 bestselling series. As the King of Adarlan's Assassin, Celaena Sardothien is bound to serve the tyrant who slaughtered her dear friend. But she has vowed to make him pay. The answers Celaena needs to destroy the king lie across the sea Wendlyn. And Chaol, Captain of the King's Guard, has put his future in jeopardy to send her there. Yet as Celaena seeks her destiny in Wendlyn, a new threat is preparing to take to the skies. Will Celaena find the strength not only to win her own battles, but to fight a war that could pit her loyalties to her own people against those she has grown to love? This third novel in the THRONE OF GLASS sequence, from global #1 bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, is packed with more heart-stopping action, devastating drama and swoonsome romance, and introduces some fierce new heroines to love and hate.

Bethany Williamson

This one was harder to get into, but she is a master storyteller so it was definitely worth the read. 

Jennifer Palmer

I’m excited to see how this journey back to Adarlan is going go for Celaena. 

Edna Aviles

zlaina

3★ 
i really had to force myself to get through a big portion of this book. it got a bit more interesting near the end but not enough for me to rate it higher.

I’m still waiting of this series to get good

Janice Walker

Selin Igten

5th reread 5/11/2023 

this book is truly one of the best books ever and i’m not even exaggerating oh wow… dorian aelin rowan nehemia love them all so much
 
even though there were only like 3 scenes of aelin and her mother they just hit so hard everytime it’s so bittersweet 

dorian and rowan… “he looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.” LIKE CMON

nehemia and aelin… just aelin grieving constantly hits so hard i loved nehemia so much “She was forgetting what Nehemia looked like. The shade of her eyes, the curve of her lips, the smell of her. Her laugh. The roaring in Celaena’s head went quiet, silenced by that familiar nothingness.” like my girlfriends 

rowan and aelin… wellllll yes i love them rowan is so so so mean in this book especially during the training scenes like wdym it wouldve been better if she died instead of the others wdym you don’t care about her calm down babe… 
but they’re cute still i love them 

and aedion… the bond between cousins is just different like it’s something you have to feel and i felt it … so sweet so sad “He did not mind dying. Though he still wished he’d gotten a chance to see her—just once.” like cmon :(

in general idk i love this book so so so comforting and i love my dorian <3 ill probably reread this book like 5 times more and ill never get tired of it its perfect in my opinion

aleksandra

4/5

Don’t even have time to write a review. I need the next book more than I need my next breath. 


  
    "I see her slipping away, bit by bit, because you shove her down when she so desperately needs someone to help her back up."

"I think that friendship is as powerful as true romantic love. And I think that friendship can save you and heal parts of you that you didn't know were broken, and change your life."

“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”

Sidney Schaffner

Forget Chaol. Officially a simp for Rowan.

akynn 

4.39⭐️

This was almost 5 stars but those Chaol chapters in the beginning bring it down a bit for me.

Ana Luiza

Eu tenho pra mim que a cena da Celaena se tornando Aelin é uma das coisas mais lindas que eu já li, me emociono toda vez. Ela aceitando o que fez, o que se tornou, o que é, perdoando a si mesmo, voltando a se aceitar, e prometendo que será uma rainha novamente pro seu povo é lindo DEMAISSSSSS. Por Deus, como eu amo essa mulher!!!! É aqui que ela se torna A Aelin, rainha de Terrasen. Logo depois ela já começa com os planos incriveis secretos que eu tanto amo (começou com libertar Rowan, depois Aedion e por ai vai. A mulher tem faz 100 planos por segundo na cabeça dela. amo)
Enfim, amo amo amo esse livro, principalmente os ultimos 25%. O próximo é melhor ainda, choro toda vez com o reencontro de Aelin e Aedion.

Didn’t love it, but the story is still good. Character development is strong. I wish I was more in love with the characters. Overall good read!

Valentina Moreno Escobar

I'm still not sure about the rating, but this book was so much better than the other ones!!

Dorian is my favourite character and now the fact that he isnt mentioned a lot in this book and then he has to go through that shit thing and the end????

Katherine

I'm still not sure about the rating, but this book was so much better than the other ones!!

Dorian is my favourite character and now the fact that he isnt mentioned a lot in this book and then he has to go through that shit thing and the end????

Honestly, I can’t talk about this one without spoiling. But while this wasn’t a huge cliffhanger. It was still there and it slightly bothers me that I have to step back and read The Assassin’s Blade because currently I need answers but unfortunately I am also wondering what the hell this prequel book could possibly add and why you should read it after this one. 

Priscilla Stanfield

chloe rae

Dear GOD. THAT WAS AMAZING.

What a way to end the year. I love every single character, every single twist and turn. The way this book had be GASPING. UGH. Can’t wait for the next one!

Manon part of the story it’s the least interesting, specially in a re-read

Sonia

Madison Keiran

When he punches you in the face and tells you the world would have been better off if you had actually died 10 years ago 🫶🫶🫶🫶❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

SJM has no mercy. this book was everything! I love Celaena so much, her character is so round, she's growing all the time, there's always something to learn. 

I loved the multiple POVs in this, how it switched between tons of people, it really made the story more vast and interesting! I just want to see the king of Adarlan butchered can that happen soon please? 

I can't believe I slept on this series for this long! literally read the first two books 3 years ago and then stopped, what was I thinking???? 

Lior 🌸Lily🌸 Sasson

10000000000000000 stars! 

SJM has no mercy. this book was everything! I love Celaena so much, her character is so round, she's growing all the time, there's always something to learn. 

I loved the multiple POVs in this, how it switched between tons of people, it really made the story more vast and interesting! I just want to see the king of Adarlan butchered can that happen soon please? 

I can't believe I slept on this series for this long! literally read the first two books 3 years ago and then stopped, what was I thinking???? 

Reya Estrella

Don't love it. Don't hate it. Just glad I'm done reading it.

I admire Sarah's attempt to introduce so many new characters to the series, but by doing so, it really slowed down the story. I mean, slooooooooowed down the story. After reading Crown of Midnight which was very action packed, this felt like a never ending train ride that took me MONTHS to complete. Whilst I enjoyed the romances as one should, I'm glad I can finally move on to the next book.

I kinda cried a lot in this one because of her response to trauma. Resonated with me. A lot.

Prachi C

Bethany s. 

3.5⭐️ 
I had to force myself through the first 30% of this book. The further I got into it the better it got, but man- at this point in this series I feel like I should not be having to make myself read it! 

I had heard great things about this book, being cited as the one where things pick up. I also heard there was a phenomenal cliffhanger, but I still don’t really know what that is. To be honest I’m not super excited about the next half of the series. It’s so slow and while I like and enjoy the characters I don’t feel dearly attached to any of them at all. So far, ToG is pretty meh for me!

This was a great book! This was my favorite in the series before I got to Empire of Storms. I love the slow burn enemies to lovers friendship/romance, I love the soul redemption arc, I love the new characters and basically everything else. Rowan, cmon if you know you know. 

Heir of Fire Throne of Glass #3

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