Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas - Reading from 'Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4)' from September 18th 2019 Showing 1,201-1,250 of 1,453

[Maddie]

Sounds great! You can respond to our spoilers XD

[Claire]

I finally finished exams so I can start reading this now! It is HEFTY though omg.

[Claire]

Actually I think I'll save this for the May Challenge and start it first thing when it hits May 1st. Hopefully I'm not too behind for this to count as a valid buddy read.

[Maddie]

Heir of Fire, Claire?

[Tiera]

Keep me in the loop for when ya'll start book 4 I haven't read that far yet in the series and I don't want to miss it!

[Shae]

I want to start book 4 soon as I have just finished 3!

[Maddie]

Yeah I'm keen for #4!

[Claire]

Yup, Heir of Fire, I should be able to finish it in 4-5 days max and then be back on schedule for book 4!

[Maddie]

Sounds good!

[Shae]

Should I get the thread reset for queen of shadows to start? Or do we just start?

[Maddie]

Always safer to ask for reset

[Shae]

Is everyone right to start queen of shadows in the 1st?

[Maddie]

I think it's safer to set it for then, they can always jump in later

[Claire]

Shannara are you still reading Heir of Fire? I'm starting it today and hopefully gonna finish by the 3rd. It's alright to have a bit of overlap between books as long as it's only a week or so right?

Sorry again for the delay, my exams ruined my reading schedule so badly.

[Maddie]

You can overlap books no problems :) You plan to fly through!

[Claire]

Oh yup I managed to sort it out with Sarah's help, just started Heir of Fire and I am very excited to finally meet (view spoiler)[Rowan and Manon (hide spoiler)]!

[Claire]

Chapter 4:
(view spoiler)[Celaena having a crisis of conscience and just deciding to sit back and get drunk for like a week is actually hilarious.

I'm guessing that Rowan is gonna be like Chaol, starting off all broody and soldier-y and then turning out to be nice and stuff :3 (hide spoiler)]

[Shannara]

Claire wrote: "Shannara are you still reading Heir of Fire? I'm starting it today and hopefully gonna finish by the 3rd. It's alright to have a bit of overlap between books as long as it's only a week or so right..."

Yes, I had a rough month so I haven’t read as much as I wanted to. So I’m trying to kick things into catch up mode!! I’m only 40% of the way in now...

[Shannara]

Claire wrote: "Chapter 4:


(view spoiler)[ I thought the same thing about drunk Celaena. 😆 (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

@Shannara: When replying to a message, you need to make sure to hide the spoilers in the reply as well

[Shannara]

Maddison wrote: "@Shannara: When replying to a message, you need to make sure to hide the spoilers in the reply as well"

Sorry about that!! I didn't realize it didn't hide the stuff that Claire said!! I've fixed it so you can't see it. I hope no one who hasn't read it saw that!!!

[Maddie]

Yeah it's something to watch out for.

And it wasn't too spoilery anyway, so you're all good. Is it your first time reading ToG as well?

[Tiera]

So starting Book 4 today?

[Shannara]

Maddison wrote: "Yeah it's something to watch out for.

And it wasn't too spoilery anyway, so you're all good. Is it your first time reading ToG as well?"

Yeah. And I’m loving it!!! I didn’t realize I was going to like it so much lol...

[Claire]

Chapter 21:
(view spoiler)[So many viewpoints spread out between so many different locations omg.

I actually had to to back and read a recap of CoM because I forgot how that whole clusterfluff with the rebels and Chaol and Archer ended up playing out. I totally forgot that Archer died 😂

Also, Aedion's whole situation is reminding me a lot of a certain character from ACOTAR.

The stuff with Dorian and Sorscha is cute, Dorian definitely needs a friend right now :3 (hide spoiler)]

[Claire]

Shannara wrote: "Started Heir of Fire and it’s really intense!! In like a good way, but dang!! I’m up to chapter 14. [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[Yeah the constant switching between perspectives every other chapter is disorientating and I usually don't usually mind books with multiple perspectives. I think it's because the chapters here are often very short.

I can't wait for Rowan to finally develop a personality 😂 (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

Chapter 7 (view spoiler)[ chaol is making me so mad at how he is being towards Aelin!!! Blaming her for sorchas death and Dorian being captured. And to trust Nesryn when he only knows her from sleeping with her a year ago, what a bloody idiot!!! I now understand the hate train for chaol, I didn’t before. But I do in the chapter. (hide spoiler)]

[Claire]

Still Chapter 21:
(view spoiler)[Celaena: Knows that Rowan didn't light a fire for a reason and later hears terrifying stories about the surrounding area.
Also Celaena: Lights a fire anyway.

WOMAN PLEASE (hide spoiler)]

[Claire]

Chapter 33:
(view spoiler)[Every single book, we have at least 1 instance of big drama happening because someone snuck up on someone else doing secret stuff. You'd think that by this point, these protags would put a little more care into making sure they're not constantly getting overheard.

Also yikes Rowan, ice cold. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

Starting today Shae!

[Maddie]

Claire wrote: "(view spoiler)[
Still Chapter 21:
Celaena: Knows that Rowan didn't light a fire for a reason and later hears terrifying stories about the surrounding area.
Also Celaena: Lights a ..." (hide spoiler)]

RIGHT!? (view spoiler)[It's so dumb coz she's so 'stealthy and deadly and intelligent' yet she does that shit... (hide spoiler)] I can already tell I'll love your updates!

[Maddie]

Claire wrote: "
(view spoiler)[Chapter 33:
Every single book, we have at least 1 instance of big drama happening because someone snuck up on someone else doing secret stuff. You'd think that by ..." (hide spoiler)]

Hey stuff's gotta be found out some way -_-

[Shannara]

Claire wrote: "
Still Chapter 21: (view spoiler)[
Celaena: Knows that Rowan didn't light a fire for a reason and later hears terrifying stories about the surrounding area.
Also Celaena: Lights a ..."<\spoiler>

Bahaha!! I know right?!?! (hide spoiler)]

[Claire]

Maddison wrote: "Claire wrote: "
Chapter 33:
Every single book, we have at least 1 instance of big drama happening because someone snuck up on someone else doing secret stuff. You'd..."

(view spoiler)[I mean trueeee but still, the setup is so similar every time it happens, I get nervous every time someone has an important secret conversation because I feel like someone is gonna overhear it 😂 (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

8% WTH (view spoiler)[ "You're still the same assassin who walked away. You came back only when it was useful for you." Umm excuse me I guess Choal missed it in the last book when he sent her away.. she didn't run away he sent her there. WTF is his problem. If anything you would think he would be grateful for some new info and some extra help.. but no, ungrateful man! (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Claire wrote: "Maddison wrote: "Claire wrote: "
Chapter 33:
Every single book, we have at least 1 instance of big drama happening because someone snuck up on someone else doing se..."

Especially with (view spoiler)[the amount of plot twists that happen that we don't even know were planned! Like we know they're planning something, but not what, and it's crap (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Tiera wrote: "
8% WTH [spoilers removed]"

Pretty much -_-

[Claire]

Chapter 48:
(view spoiler)[BIG YIKES. Do we really need to wait a whole 4 more books for this king to be taken down? Because I'm ready for him to die horribly like... Yesterday. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

Claire wrote: "
Chapter 48:
[spoilers removed]"

lol!

[Claire]

Shae wrote: "
Chapter 60 [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[It was so vampire-y! 😂

I wonder what Chaol and Dorian are gonna think when Celaena gets back to Rifthold bringing another hot dude with her hahaha (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

SJM did say her books were full of hot guys 'because it's a FANTASY. FAN-TAS-Y' XD It was great

[Claire]

Hahaha 10/10 reasoning! And we all thank her for it :D

[Claire]

Finished!
(view spoiler)[YOOOOOOOOOOO THAT ENDING THOUGH!

I mean I had a feeling the Sorscha was doomed because she obviously wasn't going to turn out to be just some random healer but that was a bit sooner than I expected :<

I liked how much this book expended the universe and backstory of Throne of Glass, the first 2 books were very contained within Rifthold, now we're getting to the REALLY crazy stuff. The downside of this is that I have a terrible memory so I'm going to spend the rest of the story really confused because I have no idea who half the people mentioned are :D (hide spoiler)]

I'll start Queen of Shadows within the next few days!

[Maddie]

Yeah these all have to be read together XD And HoF is just the start of the rest of the series, the first two were nothing alike at all. QoS is where the real shit starts :D

[Claire]

I already have QoS but I'm just going ahead and order the final 3 books right now, if I wait too long between reading these, even book recaps won't save me 😂

[Shae]

Chapter 12 (view spoiler)[ I love how perrington and katalin are back. Like I don’t like perrington, but I like how they have made their way back into the story.

I can’t believe Asterin got made third!

And what an absurd thing they want to do, make the witches breed with the valg. I didn’t realise witches were created from valg and fae breeding! (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

@Claire: Yes good idea :p

[Maddie]

Shae wrote: "
Chapter 12 (view spoiler)[I love how perrington and katalin are back. Like I don’t like perrington, but I like how they have made their way back into the story.

I can’t be..." (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[I love Manon's brutalness. She knows what she wants and does it. It's amazing! (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

Chapter 20 (view spoiler)[ Elide and Finnula, who are they? More characters to try and remember. (hide spoiler)]

[Shae]

Chapter 26 (view spoiler)[ the shadow market was attacked!! Those poor people. And I hate how chaol is blaming Aelin! He has become so angry!

And that creature in the water, it sounds like the one from the river in book 3. (hide spoiler)]