Heir of Fire
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Heir of Fire Throne of Glass #3

Sarah J. Maas2014
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?
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rain adrastea@rainrkive
4 stars
Feb 5, 2025

this book is proof that you should find someone as dramatic as you are. match my dramatics or go home

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Janet Akisanmi@janetakiz
3.5 stars
Feb 3, 2025

super slowwww, which was a little frustrating due to the cliffhanger of book 2, but it ended GREAT. looking forward to the next one!!!

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Karen@kruiz
4 stars
Jan 27, 2025

DORIAN BBY GET BEHIND ME! WE’RE GONNA FIND A WAY TO UNDOOM YOU

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Chase Leitner@chase_leitner21
4.5 stars
Jan 23, 2025

Screech

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Hannah Alexander @reviews_a_latte
5 stars
Jan 12, 2025

AMAZING

+12
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kamali del rosario@kamali1210
3.5 stars
Jan 11, 2025

I did really enjoy it, but it took me a while to finish due to my life getting busy and its slow beginning. Definitely started to get super invested towards the middle as it started to pick up though.

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callie@calliewood
3.5 stars
Dec 26, 2024

good, long winded and took me awhile to get through but enjoyed it. plot is starting to come together now | fae, witches, wyverns | enemies to friends | if dorian doesn’t end up with celaena i’m gonna lose it bc chaol is kind of a loser sometimes

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Cameron Gleeson @cammygleeson
3.5 stars
Dec 13, 2024

could have been a lot shorter but good book nonetheless

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Liam Bennett@squatterdrop02
5 stars
Dec 8, 2024

I think the series starts to ramp up a lot in this book, will probably read the next 4 books in 2 weeks at this rate (also no romance in these ones soph)

+1
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Ashley Lively@ashlivluv
4.5 stars
Nov 20, 2024

It was amazing and I love Aelin's character development and the action in the book is just amazing. I feel like it was too long for me and a bit dragging but it was really good.

+4
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Bethany@bethibley
3.5 stars
Sep 24, 2024

This book ended superbly. I wish the rest of it had been as enjoyable to read. The shifts in perspective made it oddly-paced and the boring parts were a STRUGGLE to get through. The whole will-they-won't-they with Rowan was agonizing, Chaol's and Dorian's parts were so dull until the finale, and Manon was just not interesting. On the whole, however, I'm loving how Calaena's/Aelin's character trajectory has progressed, I enjoyed seeing all the flashbacks into her deep past, and I'm looking forward to continuing the series.

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kay@kaypotat
5 stars
Aug 21, 2024

best of the series so far

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julie reads@juliepalacio
3.5 stars
Aug 21, 2024

the first half almost made me go into a slump, but the second half?? CRAZYYY

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Sabrina Spada@sabrinaspada
3.5 stars
Aug 21, 2024

This whole book could have been an email

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Isabelle@balletje
3.5 stars
Aug 19, 2024

Really liked the story development and the side plots.

I really enjoyed the story/world building around Manon and the thirteen and I'm really looking forward to seeing them later on in the series, but Dorian's story bored me a little tbh, but I'm still excited to learn what his powers will add to the whole story later on.

Loved Celaena's/Aelin's development in this book

+1
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Cici Pearson@cocoisabird
5 stars
Aug 14, 2024

the new character additions made this book tbh

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millena@versionsofmi
4 stars
Aug 3, 2024

4,5 ⭐️ “She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius—and she would not be afraid.” I’M SOBBING SCREAMING

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Ruby Emmeline Fisher@rubyfisherreads
3.5 stars
Jul 21, 2024

liked a lot but didn’t LOVE. Still so good tho

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Jennifer Gosnell@jennifereveann
3 stars
Jul 19, 2024

The first half of this book took me aaaages. The multiple POVs, and the back and forths between them really killed plot momentum for me. But the back half of the book was KILLER and really flowed. Lots of twists and turns. Really set it up for the next book in the series to have a lot goin’ on. Excited for that one!

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Kaylin Paige@brattybookworm
3.5 stars
Jul 17, 2024

Okay so I liked this book, but it took a while to get there. There’s so many new characters and side plots. I understand that it’s all important and this knowledge is necessary. But this was my least favorite in the series as of right now.

loved the second half of the book though. I can go on and on about the characters. SJM really knows how to go out with a bang. It hits every time.

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Ada@adasel
1 star
Jul 16, 2024

DNF. SO BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jillian Roberts@jillianroberts
4 stars
Jul 16, 2024

This one took me soooooooo long to finish but I absolutely loved it.

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Maya @restupkin
4 stars
Jul 11, 2024

3.75 stars!! This was a rollercoaster of emotions. But, and I hate to say this, the first half of the book did bore me. I had put down the book and had no want to pick it back up. Dorian and especially Chaols storylines did nothing for me. The book could’ve have been an easy five stars were it not for that. But where in the first part lacks the second part exceeds my expectations. I loved seeing everything really start setting in place and I feel like now the story has really begun. Safe to say Aelin is slowly becoming one of my favorite characters of all time🤍 Edit: Just realized what is my problem with Sarah J Mass’s. She always has a slow start to her books and then unleashes everything all at once in the last 200 pages 😭

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Shannon C@shannonhaleyy
4 stars
Jul 5, 2024

4 stars only because it took me SO long to read. I skipped all of Manon's chapters because I always wanted to put the book down when it got to those. I only care about the characters that I've known since Thrown of Glass, with an exception of Rowan and Aedion. I loved the major character growth between the characters and I PRAY that Dorian will be okay soon :( side note: Rowan and Aelin better freaking kiss soon. I was waiting for it to happen in this book

Highlights

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Karen@kruiz

Rowan Whitehorn the man that you are 🧎‍♀️

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Karen@kruiz

Sometimes, though, her dreams were of a brown-eyed man in an empire across the sea. Sometimes she'd awaken and reach for the warm, male body beside hers, only to realize it was not the captain-that she would never again lie next to Chaol, not after what had happened. And when she remembered that, it sometimes hurt to breathe.

Page 389

SOBBING

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Karen@kruiz

“Maybe we could find the way back together”

Page 304

ROWAN MY SHAYLAAAA

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Karen@kruiz

I’m so bored of Manon’s POV cancel me

Page 261
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Karen@kruiz

Can’t tell if I like Aedion yet

Page 222
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Karen@kruiz

“Would you have shifted to save yourself?”

Page 176

jesus

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Karen@kruiz

Dorian I was not familiar with your game 😮‍💨🧎‍♀️

Page 139
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Isabelle@balletje

Enemy. Lover.

Queen.

Page 20
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Jillian Roberts@jillianroberts

She lifted her face to the stars. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir of two mighty bloodlines, protector of a once-glorious people, and Queen of Terrasen. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius—and she would not be afraid.

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yna@ynatriez

"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."

Page 283

gasped

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Paige Leitner@pleitner

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.

Page 499
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Paige Leitner@pleitner

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?"

She nodded.

Page 426
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Paige Leitner@pleitner

"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."

Page 344
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Paige Leitner@pleitner

"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."

He held out a hand. "Together, then."

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.

Page 304
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Paige Leitner@pleitner

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.

Page 227

Similar to Aelin!!

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Cassie French@cassiebargerfrench

“I have no doubt that you’ll be able to free the slaves from the labor camps someday. No matter what name you use.”

Page 375
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Cassie French@cassiebargerfrench

“As for Celaena, you do not have the right to wish she were not what she is. The only thing you have a right to do is decide whether you are her enemy or her friend.”

Page 344
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Cassie French@cassiebargerfrench

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

Page 344
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Maeson Grace@maesongrace03

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

Page 459

Wryd key

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Maeson Grace@maesongrace03

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

Page 67

Valg

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Maeson Grace@maesongrace03

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

Page 24

Valg

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Maeson Grace@maesongrace03

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

Page 17

Rowan

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Amanda Autumn Berrey@booksofautumn

“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.

Page 498
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Amanda Autumn Berrey@booksofautumn

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

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