Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)

by Sarah J. Maas

Manon Blackbeak, heir of the Blackbeak Witch-Clan, bearer of the blade Wind-Cleaver, rider of the wyvern Abraxos, and Wing Leader of the King of Adarlan’s aerial host,

Geez, no need to brag

Kaltain—

Ooh, I remember her

its white flesh marred with too many bruises to be accidental. And then there was the thick red scar just before the dip of her elbow, two inches long, slightly raised. It had to be recent.

Poor thing

He liked to do that—just tumble off as though he’d been struck dead.

That’s hilarious

As stunning as her mistress—or would have been, were it not for the deep, jagged scars on both cheeks. Scars that explained the hideous, branded-out tattoo on the inside of the girl’s wrist. She’d been one of Clarisse’s acolytes—until she’d been marred and lost all value.

Aww 😭

this was not a rescue attempt.

Unfortunately, no

Quietly, Aedion said, “Dorian.”

Why could I see them getting together

See to it that he’s attended to immediately.”

Darn

Chaol had been all of those things

I literally sighed aloud when I realized this chapter was from his pov

Aelin Galathynius was about to turn the glass palace into a killing field,

Darn right she is

little portrait of a woman who could be either a wife or a daughter. With men like him, it was impossible to tell.

🤮

Aelin rolled over in bed and stretched a hand across the mattress, reaching lazily for the warm male body beside hers.

🥰

“I’m replacing you with Sorrel.”

Aww 😢

“You fill it out better than you did at seventeen.”

Blegh

He came close enough to graze his lips against hers if she should sway a fraction of an inch.

Ew 🤮

Lysandra had brought food. Lots of food.

Yum

She’d worn one of his shirts to bed these past two nights.

Girl- you have freakin ROWAN to choose from and you pick the dead guy?!

Maybe Chaol deserved to burn, too.

He does

Five guards were dead before the others could even move.

Darn right

Aedion Ashryver was ready to die.

Please don’t, I like you

beside a crowned woman who had not noticed that the thing using his mouth wasn’t the person who had been born of her flesh.

Wow, what a great mom

And tripped, sending the bucket of water spraying over the marks.

Oh, that’s so genius

She was fire, and light, and ash, and embers.

An extra dancer was moving through the crowd: some understudy,

ITS AELIN YOU IDIOT

Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.

It wasn’t just the glass flowers that had been rigged with a reactive powder, quietly purchased by Aelin at the Shadow Market. Every bit of sparkling dust the dancers had tossed about had been full of it.

Ok, that’s genius

Slashing and ducking and twirling, Aelin gave herself completely to that killing calm, until the blood was a mist around her and the gravel was slick with it.

I think Aedion would be proud of her

It was with no small amount of horror that she found Dorian strolling toward them.

Oh crap

She shoved the chains into Aedion’s hands,

Why didn’t she just drop them?

Dorian let out a lover’s laugh.

What the crap does that mean?

The wound in his ribs stretched and burned in agony.

Too bad, Aelin needs you so suck it up

“Hurry, you hulking ass!” she barked.

Lol

praying that her cousin kept quiet in his little compartment.

I’m just imagining Aedion in the little compartment and it’s hilarious

see the massive figure lying on the bed, a towel around his waist.

Ok SJM, we got it, Aedion is huge

The agony in Chaol’s eyes hit her like a physical blow.

I literally couldn’t care less about Chaol’s “pain”

Elide Lochan’s

Ooh, are you gonna be a new main character?

Most men, she’d decided, were bastards of varying degrees. Most of them were monsters.

100% agree

At the sound of his name, a massive triangular head, scarred badly around one eye, poked into the aerie.

I feel like Elide and Abraxos would get along

A giant, lethal dog. With wings.

Exactly

Only with books, only when reading, was Ghislaine so snappish.

Same, except it’s not just with books, it’s with everything

Manon motioned with an iron-tipped hand for her sentinel to go on.

Doing absolutely anything with those iron nails is such a power move

“That’s the smell, isn’t it? The smell here, around some of the soldiers—like it’s wrong, from another world. The king found some way to bring them here and stuff them into human bodies.”

YES YES YES

Down the table, Kaltain did not react.

What is Manon’s fascination with Kaltain?

Manon gave him a long, long look that told Vernon that one day, in a shadowy hallway, he would find himself with the claws of this wild, immortal thing in his belly.

Please

He had sobbed with relief when she trapped it and raised an ancient blade over his head.

I KNOW Dorian would not be mad at Aelin if she had killed him

But he wished she had killed him. He hated her for not killing him.

😢

Each of his pounding steps on the wooden stairs accented the raging, thunderous beat of his heart, until it was all he could hear, all he could feel.

Oh, stop acting like a child

Aelin was and had always been a gods-damned liar.

Gods, you are such a hypocrite

He should have been hiding as well, but the roaring in his blood and bones was unrelenting.

Well, I hope you get yourself killed

Aelin didn’t know everything.

Yeah? Well neither do you, CHAOL