Sorscha

[Katrina♡••]

I was so angry when I realized that she would be Dorian's new love interest after everything that he and Celeana have.I laughed so loud with joy and relief when she died but i could not help being mean.

[priscilla]

Jayda wrote: "From the beginning I honestly hated her guts (BTW I ship Celorian) and when the guard had her at swards point I was screaming in my head "DO IT NOW!!!!!!""

Pretty much all just yes.

[Rachel]

Sorscha is a sweet, brave, and lovable character. She emerges with a quiet strength and admiration for Dorian that is soft and slow-burning. Her purpose, upon finishing the book, is clearly to unleash Dorian from beneath his father's control. After reading some of the comments in this thread, I lament for my peer group.

[Gabby]

Sorscha was adorable. Especially in comparison to our shocking excuse for a heroine.

[Bre]

I disagree. I liked Sorcha's character. I thought it did a great job of showing us Dorian's hardships that he had to go through.
This was basically how I saw her role:
Sorcha was put into the story because Dorian needed some form of escape from his feelings of Celaena/Aelin and also from all of the (intense) drama that came with his abilities and his father's plans. Sorcha's was Dorian's gate to freedom from all of the painful memories that had been made in the previous books. Once Celaena/Aelin left for Wendlyn, Dorian was trying so hard to forget his feelings for her but wasn't really able to until he met Sorcha.
Sorcha also plays a meager role in Dorians life because she helps him attempt to control his abilities. If she hadn't been present for this, Dorian wouldn't have had someone to help guide him, he wouldn't have the "escape" that he needed which was Sorcha herself.
The biggest reason why I liked Sorcha's character being in Dorian's life was her death (I know, that sounds terrible): when Dorian was begging for the king to spare Sorcha's life, it shows that he is the complete antithesis of the King and that his humanity is still in tact. But when the king refuses to grant his request and kills Sorcha, it shows how Dorian has, yet again, lost something he cared so much about-just like when Celaena/Aelin left. As Sorcha dies, We see that Dorian has basically lost what he has grown to care for so much, and he can never have that escape from reality again.
This I believe is why Sorcha's contribution to the story is well thought out and portrayed greatly because it helps us readers to have that soft spot for Dorian, to feel sympathetic towards him. This also is, in my opinion, a great demonstration of Dorian's character overall.
These are just my personal thoughts.

[priscilla]

Breanna wrote: "I disagree. I liked Sorcha's character. I thought it did a great job of showing us Dorian's hardships that he had to go through.
This was basically how I saw her role:
Sorcha was put into the stor..."

Honestly I think the only reason I disliked her was because I was stuck on shipping Doraelin but I've since jumped ships again and I'm hoping I'm not so stupidly harsh about it when I reread Heir of Fire. I really like what you've pointed out in this, she was in Dorian's life for a reason, but I also feel like her death sort of had to still happen because, while I'm completely over Doraelin, I still can't see him and Sorscha together in the end.

[priscilla]

Gabby wrote: "Sorscha was adorable. Especially in comparison to our shocking excuse for a heroine."

..."shocking excuse for a heroine"? Not to be rude, of course, but how so?

[Nur]

Anji wrote: "I didn't like Sorscha from the beginning and then when she said she'd been in love with Dorian I was just like, oh, no, yup don't like you. Also I didn't like their relationship together, it was re..."

Same:)

[Diana]

Gwhizz wrote: "Does anyone else feel that Sorscha has been poorly added into the story? It feels like she has been made up just for this book and has only been added as an afterthought.
The other characters in t..."

I think they added Sorscha just because they needed Dorian to break and for him to have a pretty bad past with woman so that other characters cold bond over that i guess but other than that, Sorscha herself didn't have any major character change. I didn't like her because she just had a meaningless point of view and we all kind of knew she wasn't gonna survive. She was important for the story and Dorian but what she saw was meaningless.

[Autumn]

I feel like the character of Sorscha could have been good had she had more time in the book and we as readers given a deeper insight into her story and personal life. But what I saw of her I didn't really like. Sure, I felt heartbroken when Dorian saw her killed but I think it would have had a stronger impact if we knew more about Sorscha and her relationship with Dorian had more time to develop.

[Diana]

Fandoms wrote: "I feel like the character of Sorscha could have been good had she had more time in the book and we as readers given a deeper insight into her story and personal life. But what I saw of her I didn't..."

Yea, thats true.

[kittensbooksandchocolate]

I really disliked her, I want doraelin o be endgame but it probably won't happen. Sorcha wasn't a character I liked even a little bit, and I was quite happy with her death. Also, her introduction into the story was really messy and unnecessary, and her "romance" with dorian wasn't realistic either. I feel like that whole thing was just to give Dorian more angst lol.

[song of the east]

ok but i feel that i wouldve loved her more if she was mentioned earlier on in the series?? like what someone said, it felt like she was added as an afterthought. hell, she doesnt even have a given surname?? honestly characters like her i love but the way she was portrayed and her role in the story was just too... eh?? like her sole purpose was to get dorian moving and have her death eventually break him in the end...

[Marlowe]

She felt like the very definition of fridging - a female character created just to give a male character some pain. She didn't have a whole lot going on except to serve as Dorian's love interest, and then to motivate his character in Queen of Shadows.

I feel much the same way about Nesryn in QoS, actually. I haven't read beyond QoS, so maybe she gets more character later on, but she's another character who seems added in just to be a love interest (in this case, so that Chaol has a consolation prize).

[Zeyah]

I thought she was a good character that matched Dorian’s personality better than Aelin.
Also, EoS SPOILERS!!
I totally did not see rowaelin coming.

[Hannah]

I...hated her I'm sorry for how mean that sounds and that i sound like a bad person when I say I was happy when she died. I really liked most of couples through this book.. and then Sorcha and Dorian happened and I was like gurrrll don't touch ma boi you aint in his league. i mean i liked dorian and celeana, celeana and choal, aelin and rowan, manon and dorian but sorcha i wanted to STAB that bitch... sorry if you liked her

[Alisha]

Gwhizz wrote: "Does anyone else feel that Sorscha has been poorly added into the story? It feels like she has been made up just for this book and has only been added as an afterthought.
The other characters in t..."

I felt the same way honestly, I felt that she was a last-minute addition to help Dorian's character developed and there was no actual thought put into sorsha character herself and so when she died it was irrelevant to me and this made me also not like how much more she was mentioned in the other books because she didn't actually add anything.

[Genevieve]

I really liked her at the beginning when she was just a nice person who protected a secret, but once she became a love interest, she drove me crazy

[[deleted user]]

She was a good addition to the story but I think the whole Sorscha x Dorian thing was overrated and more than a little over the top.