This review contains spoilers for the first three books in the series. If you haven’t read them, (get on that!, then) proceed with caution!
So when we last saw our favorite heroine, she had just barely escaped Mauve’s clutches. Luckily she was able to free Rowan from his blood oath to her aunt and instead, bind him to herself. We saw a battle of epic proportion and we saw a queen rising from the ashes. Meanwhile, in Adarlan, Chaol and Dorian faced their own hell.
The book starts off with Aelin plotting her rescue of Aedion. But even though she learned how to use her magic, she has returned to a land without magic so unfortunately for her, she’s no longer able to shift. Returning to Adarlan means many things for Aelin. There are scores to settle, friends to free, and a city or essentially a world to save.
Everything. Every page, from beginning to end, was a vivid masterpiece. We love everything about this series. We feel like this is one of those books that couldn’t be timed more perfectly.
We were happy to have started after the first four books were published, but now we feel like we’re going to have withdrawals if we have to wait until Fall to read more of this series. Thankfully we can read ACOTAR and The Assassin’s Blade in the meantime.
Well, for once there was something that we really didn’t like. It was the sad fate that befell one of the characters. We hope there is a massive turnaround in the next book.
From beginning to end, Queen of Shadows is a vivid masterpiece.
I absolutely loved this book! Cannot wait for the next instalment but what worries me is the intense book hangover that I get after reading SJ Maas and then being unable to read anything further FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR!!!!