Queen of Shadows ~ Title

[Evelin]

I think the cover will be black and white.All the other colors you guys suggested would be nice too!

[priya]

I just plainly have no idea

[Pidge15]

A title, finally!

I had fun playing the guessing game. Cheers to all of those who got the 'Queen' part. It seems so obvious now doesn't it?! I don't remember who said Throne, Crown, Heir, and now Queen but nice tie in!

I like the monochromatic color ideas you are throwing out there! Shadow-y, black and white... Maybe one small splash of color? A piercing eye with color, or one lit flame somewhere...?

Idk

[Alice (Booksandfreshlybrewedtea)]

GUYS GUYS I'VE JUST PRE ORDERED QUEEN OF SHADOWS! i know super early but i couldn't help myself!

[Alexis]

You're not the only one, Alice

[Izzy]

I can't waaaaittt for Queen of Shadows :DDD

[Izzy]

Omg reallyyy?!??! HoF was already so long!!

[priya]

SJM said that currently QOS is 647 pages long!!!

[Izzy]

*HYPERVENTILATES*

[[deleted user]]

Did You See The Blurb????

[priya]

YES THE BLURB WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! I LOVED THE DESCRIPTOIN OF DORIAN IN IT!!! (I really want to know what's happening with Chaol and lorcan though)

[[deleted user]]

Priya Westfall Carstairs Winchester Havilliard Stark Targaeryan Lightwood Lynch Parish Thorne Salvatore Queen Allen Blake Stilinski Ashryver O'Brien wrote: "YES THE BLURB WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! I LOVED THE DESCRIPTOIN OF DORIAN IN IT!!! (I really want to know what's happening with Chaol and lorcan though)"

Agreed!

[Izzy]

I can't wait for ACOTAR!!!! AND OMG YESS I SAW THE BLURB!! SO HAPPY ABOUT THE DORIAN AND AEDION PART :D

[priya]

Lorcan is the leader of the Fae group (I think I most LIKLEY got that wrong) I saw several pictures of him on SJM Pinterest and am now in love with him (and Vaughan too (I have no idea who he is but there's this one extremley hot picture of him))

[priya]

Probably

[priya]

Same I only sort of know these things because people told me (how do people even figure these things out?)

[priya]

Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Now she returns to the empire - to confront the shadows of her past ...The fourth breathtaking instalment in the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series. Bloodthirsty for revenge on the two men responsible for destroying her life, and desperate to find out if the prince and his captain are safe, Celaena returns to Rifthold, the seat of so much evil. She has accepted her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, there are dark truths to learn and debts to be paid. Aelin must stay hidden beneath her assassin's hood and draw on her mortal strength as Celaena to prevent the King of Adarlan from tearing her world apart. Only then can she fight for her people. Readers will be held rapt as Celaena's story builds to an agonising crescendo, packed with heart-pounding action and swoon-worthy romance.

AMAZON DESCRIPTION!!! AMAZINGNESS TWITTER FRIEND SHOWED IT TO ME!!!!

[Mirou]

Priya Westfall Carstairs Winchester Havilliard Stark Targaeryan Lightwood Lynch Parish Thorne Salvatore Queen Allen Blake Stilinski Ashryver O'Brien wrote: "Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Now she returns to the empire - to confront the shadows of her past ...The fourth breathtaking instalment in the New York Times bestsellin..."

"SWOON-WORTHY ROMANCE" OH MY GOOOOD !

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Priya Westfall Carstairs Winchester Havilliard Stark Targaeryan Lightwood Lynch Parish Thorne Salvatore Queen Allen Blake Stilinski Ashryver O'Brien wrote: "Same I only sort of know these things because people told me (how do people even figure these things out?)"

Because Lorcan was in HoF LOL

[priya]

Wait wait wait. HE IS?! Wait I think I kinda remember he came with the other cadre right??

[Blake]

To be honest, the 'swoon-worthy romance' tagline annoys me, because I picked this series up since it sounded like an amazing fantasy, not a romance.

But anyway, Lorcan was in HoF??

[priya]

That swoon worthy Romans annoyed me too. Why don't people realize that no one really wants 'swoon worthy romance' in a fantasy

Lorcan came with the cadre to help rowan!!!!! I completely forgot about this!!!

[Blake]

Hmmm, why can't they advertise a cool fantasy series as a cool fantasy series? If I want to read something High Fantasy, like ToG, I want cool, mature relationships, that aren't the main point of the story. The 'swoon worthy romance' line just opposes this

Oh, yeah, I remember now!

[priya]

Same for me. I started really getting into high/epic fantasy because it had the highest possibility of having romance being a side story. I also hate that line because I really started liking this book after CELAENA broke up with dorian, it really shows how not concentrated TOG is on romance (celaena broke up with dorian because she knew it was never going to work, not because of her love for chaol which a lot of other books would have made it about). I also really really loved how chaol chose his duty over Celaena that was amazing and how celaena reacted. A major part of why I like this series is because it's NOT a 'swoon worthy romance' it's just an high/epic fantasy concentrated on plot.

[Blake]

Hmm, that's what I really liked about it too! But now it just focuses on her many many love interests, which annoys me to no end. A high fantasy story should NOT revolve around a love triangle - and even worse, multiple love triangles, a love polygon!!

[[deleted user]]

I think ToG is one of the very few series where the romance adapts to the plot-lines, and not the other way around. Like, the main focus of the book isn't on C/A's relationship. We only feel like it is because we're too busy shipping her with the super-hot guys XD

[Blake]

Actually, I think ToG doesn't really do the romance well at all. In ToG I thought it was pretty obvious she liked Chaol, but I didn't care if they didn't get together there and then. She had more important things to focus on, like the tournament, so the sudden romance with Dorian just sticks out like a sore thumb, and nobody even likes love triangles anyway. Her whole romance with Dorian was unnecessary if she was just going to get together with Chaol, and getting over him didn't even serve for character development (since she already got over Sam). That and the whol dating someone then hookingup with his or her best friend thing is seriously the lowest anyone can do, even if it's for Chaol.

I think CoM did it really well though, since she only had the one love interest, and it was actually key to her character development, but didn't stick out like a sore thumb and melded together nicely.

HoF was just stupid with romance because Dorain and Sorscha was just to boring, and Rowan was an utterly detestable character.

There we are, the completely 'swoon-worthy' romance where the only thing I'll be swooning from is it's terrible execution

[[deleted user]]

Kate wrote: "Actually, I think ToG doesn't really do the romance well at all. In ToG I thought it was pretty obvious she liked Chaol, but I didn't care if they didn't get together there and then. She had more i..."

Agreed :) We all know it's good that the series focuses more on the story/plot than the romance.

[priya]

DONT FORGET ABOUT THE UNBURNT