I’m not looking to hurt anyone’s feelings if you have been hurt by SJM - you are valid, and if the book means more than words to you - you are valid. This review isn’t going to be a drag or a gush, it’s just going to be my thoughts and feelings on what I did love and what I did hate. And, in true Sarah J Maas fashion, the book was ungodly longer than it truly needed to be. And I always feel like the characters I do end up liking from this world, get the bad end of the stick. I’ve had a rocky journey with Throne of Glass even before it became “cool” to dislike this series and even before the stans thought it would be “cooler” to ignore all the gross, problematic elements. Here is the thing – if you have loved this series from the start, you are probably going to love this conclusion and be very happy upon turning that last page. It reminds me of reading Harry Potter with my friends back when I was little, and there really are no words to even begin to describe that feeling, because it truly transcends words and language. All of us updating, crying, and swooning at the same times all over social media. And there are no words I have to describe the feeling that I get while reading a book with what feels like the entire book community. I had a good time reading Kingdom of Ash.

“Once upon a time, in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom…” #0.4) The Assassin and the Underworld ★★★★★ #0.1) The Assassin and the Pirate Lord ★★★ The most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.(Thank you so much, Alex, for this tour edition! I love you!) The family he might have, the future he might have. And the smallest girl, clinging to her mother’s legs … A fine-boned, silver-haired child, little more than a babe, her blue eyes harking back to a lineage he did not know.

The boy next to him, silver-haired and green-eyed, might as well have been Rowan’s twin.

The boy beside her, nearly her height, smiled at him, warm and bright, his Ashryver eyes near-glowing beneath his cap of silver hair. The tallest: a girl with golden hair and pine-green eyes, solemn-faced and as proud as her mother. She stared toward him, hair still flowing. But it wasn’t the slightly older features that knocked the breath from him. It was her face-or it would be in a few years.

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