She is being tortured by Cairn while Fenrys is forced to watch.

The actual novel begins and we find out where all our heroes are. We see our first glimpse of Aelin’s captivity and torture, and Rowan’s journey to save her. Maas jumped right into the emotion on page one. Kingdom of Ash opens with two short prequel chapters called “The Prince” and “The Princess.” Sarah J. It still hasn’t hit me that the series is over. I truly felt like I was with Aelin, Rowan, Dorian, Chaol, Aedion, Lysandra, Nesryn, Sartaq, Yrene, Gavriel, Fenrys, Lorcan, Elide, and Manon on their journey throughout the entire series. The characters and world mean so much to me. The Throne of Glass series is my favorite series (tied with Harry Potter of course). I cried a ridiculous amount of times (for both happy and sad moments). She absolutely delivered with Kingdom of Ash, and I rode the emotional rollercoaster throughout all 980 pages. Maas has the spectacular gifts of storytelling, world-building, and foreshadowing. I knew that Kingdom of Ash would be an emotional rollercoaster, and I wasn’t sure if all of our heroes would make it.

I was an emotional wreck at the end of both books. Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn both ended with huge, gut-wrenching, jaw-dropping reveals and cliffhangers. I could not wait for Kingdom of Ash to be released, but I was also terrified. Kingdom of Ash was the perfect conclusion to my favorite series.

It’s been over a week since I finished Kingdom of Ash and I still can’t form complete sentences. I have no idea how I am going to write this review/recap. Please also check out my review/recap post of the Throne of Glass series up to Kingdom of Ash. The most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.There will be LOTS OF SPOILERS in this post.Īll quotes and content are property of and created by Sarah J. 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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