Review: Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas Series: Throne of Glass #4
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on September 1st 2015
ISBN: 9781619636057
Genres: Young Adult, Action & Adventure, General, Love & Romance, Fantasy & Magic
Pages: 576
Format: Kindle
Source: Library
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Sarah J. Maas's New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series reaches new heights in this sweeping fourth volume.
Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire-for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past...
She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.
She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen's triumphant return.
Celaena's epic journey has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions across the globe. This fourth volume will hold readers rapt as Celaena's story builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.
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Ok, give me a moment to gather myself here because I can’t even… I really have no words …
Deep breaths in and out…. Okay.
I swore a long time ago I would not be one of THOSE reviewers. We all know the type, right? Grown women who get all flustered and hot and bothered over a YA novel, and then go into teen girl fan ravings.
And then I read this book and blew that all straight to hell in about a minute flat.
To write this review without spoilers is very difficult, so if I slip up, I apologize in advance. If you haven’t read the prior books in this series, you will probably want to stop reading this review right now because I will totally ruin the earlier books for you.
The first thought that comes to mind for me right now is: Emotional roller coaster. I mean, not for nothing but holy crap.
While generally I tend to dislike a large amount of swearing in YA fiction, in this particular book I don’t think the story would have been as good without it. Be warned that in this one there is a fair amount of sexual innuendo as well.
I both loved and hated it all at the same time.
The main character calls to mind the mythical creature the phoenix, because all I kept thinking as I got further and further into the depths of the pages was “out of the ashes,” and from those ashes what is reborn is absolutely incredible.
I do have to say though that quite frankly the ending thoroughly pissed me off. There is no polite way for me to say it. It is only the inkling of an indication from the author’s own Goodreads page that this is not the way the series ends and another book is somewhere on the horizon that kept me from blasting on Twitter and every other bit of social media about my disappointment that…. Well, the end just left me with too many unanswered questions… Hmm, that seems to be a bit of a pattern with me lately.
So, Ms. Maas, you have thrown down the gauntlet, and I have no idea how you are going to top this one, but I say, Bring it on!
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