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Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)

Sarah J. Maas

Start date: September 1, 2015

Finish date: September 30, 2015

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Mar 11, 2015 Heather MacLaughlin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-stars

First time read September 2015

5/5 Stars!! I just LOVED everything about this book!! I just wanted to savor every chapter and never wanted it to end, I loved the characters, plot, scenes, and SHIPS!!!!

***** THIS PART CONTAINS SPOILERS ***** DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED ****

OK, I just loved this book, I am so happy that we finally got to see a Celena/Aelin and Arobynn interaction! I have been waiting for 3 books to see what she would say and how she would handle him when they finally First time read September 2015

5/5 Stars!! I just LOVED everything about this book!! I just wanted to savor every chapter and never wanted it to end, I loved the characters, plot, scenes, and SHIPS!!!!

***** THIS PART CONTAINS SPOILERS ***** DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED ****

OK, I just loved this book, I am so happy that we finally got to see a Celena/Aelin and Arobynn interaction! I have been waiting for 3 books to see what she would say and how she would handle him when they finally came face to face, and it happened in like the beginning of the book! It was intense - I thought she was going to explode, but once again she is calm and calculating.

At first I was a little thrown off by the NON Chaol and Aelin story-line and how much they were filled with hate for each other, All throughout Heir of Fire I really thought that the feelings they once had were strong enough and that once they saw each other again, it would just be overwhelming and the emotions would be there ... THIS DID NOT HAPPEN ... apparently Chaol hates her and blames her for everything that went wrong, I didn't like this and it was hard to read.

Then there is Rowan, I kinda saw him as more of a mentor and not a love interest so that kinda through me a bit in the middle of the book, but once I realized that Choal and Aelin were NOT getting back together I found him more and more appealing. I still don't see him as the ONE, but I can get on board for a while.

NOW the main story - I LOVED IT, everything was so intense and it just kept coming, I really like the Manon character in this book. I wasn't too fond of her in Heir of Fire but found her POV so much more interesting in Queen of Shadows. The witches, The Valg, Aelin, Rowan, Dorian, It was absolute perfection!!

Second time read April 2025 - listened to the Audio book

It’s been 10 years since I first read this and I forgot almost everything that happened in this book - I am so happy I decided to read/listen to these books again, seriously sooooo good💗 and yes I still feel the same way about Rowan. I have always felt like she was “settling” for him. He’s a calming presence in her life, and she needs that but I just don’t feel the overwhelming desire.

This book has so much going on and listening to it really was perfection ...more

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Aug 09, 2020 Brittany rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

Queen of Shadows...oh. My. God.

This book...this WORLD.

Hello Erilea, I missed you so much. Oh, and hello to you two, Rowan. I MISSED YOU SO MUCH AS WELL.

There is so much stuff to unpack with this book, so I'm going to start with Aelin and her returning to Rifthold to stop the Valg demons and the King (which shocked the unholy hell out of me once I read it). So Aelin returns to Rifthold and had been forming a plan to take down the evil King and his Valg commanders, and to also free her cousin an Queen of Shadows...oh. My. God.

This book...this WORLD.

Hello Erilea, I missed you so much. Oh, and hello to you two, Rowan. I MISSED YOU SO MUCH AS WELL.

There is so much stuff to unpack with this book, so I'm going to start with Aelin and her returning to Rifthold to stop the Valg demons and the King (which shocked the unholy hell out of me once I read it). So Aelin returns to Rifthold and had been forming a plan to take down the evil King and his Valg commanders, and to also free her cousin and save Prince Dorian, who is trapped beneath a collar and is under the control of his father. So her plans had to deal with Aborynn (in which I fucking cringed, like holy hell I hate Aborynn SO FREAKING MUCH), which resulted in her and Lysandra becoming friends and her taking down Aboryn by letting her kill him in his sleep. They did have to save Lysandra (by 'they' I mean Aelin, Aedion, Rowan and Chaol), all the while meeting Manon and her Thirteen, and also seeing the King again and Valg!Dorian. Once they put their plan into motion-using hellfire to destroy the glass tower to bring back magic-it almost didn't work, mostly because of the King and the power of the valg, but when the King said he killed Chaol, Dorian forced the demon out of his head and ripped the collar from his neck, then with Aelin's help, they destroyed the glass castle and killed the king.

Now Manon and her Thirteen...whoo boy. Those Blackbeaks, I tell ya...hooly hell those girls went though hell, I tell ya, hell. Because Perrigton wanted to breed the witches, and Manon gave up the Yellowlegs. But once she found out what they were doing to them (thanks to Elide Lochan) she didn't send any more witches down there, even when she talked to Asterin and found out what her grandmother did to her (which was fucking terrible, by the way) and also, also...

THEY MET.

WHEN DORIAN WAS UNDER THE VALG.

MANON AND DORIAN MET.

Do I ship them? Not yet, but slowly but surely I am. Am I glad the kingdom is safe once again? Yes...yes I am. Am I fucking worried that now Perrington and Maeve and Erawan is about to let loose a war that I hope everyone on the good side wins? Yes.

And also RIP Kaltain Rompier and I'm fucking sorry Perrington treated you like shit and did horrible things to you. ...more

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Jan 18, 2021 Ashley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

My rating system

5- Gush/Absolutely Loved
4- Low Love/High Like
3- Like
2- Meh
1- Dislike/Hate

If it is a .5 star I round up

5 Stars

I think that this might be my favorite so far.

Manon and Aedion are my favorite characters so far, especially Manon I love her.

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Jan 13, 2020 Kaitlyn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-52-in-20-challenge

I don't even know where to begin with this book. I absolutely adored it. I laughed, I cried, I gasped, and when I was done I just sat and hugged it. There is nothing I didn't love about this book and I can't wait to continue on with book 5. ...more

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