Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas’s #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius’s journey from slave to king’s assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. . . Aelin has risked everything to save her people-but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin … cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day…
With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they’ve gathered to battle Erawan’s hordes might not be enough to save them. Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian are forced to forge their own paths to meet their fates. Hanging in the balance is any hope of salvation-and a better world.
And across the sea, his companions unwavering beside him, Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen-before she is lost to him forever.
As the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight, if they are to have a chance at a future. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever in the explosive final chapter of the Throne of Glass series.
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This is it, for all the marbles! All story lines converge, and the final battle is upon them.
I did get a bit of battle fatigue and bored reading this last book. It could have been edited a bit better, and some of the battles were a little redundant. That being said, it was still really good, and I loved how the story ended. There were a couple twists that I didn’t expect that made it interesting.
After reading all of this I still cannot decide which characters are my favorite. I ended up falling in love with all of them. Aelin was probably the least interestin, but I loved her snark, and her love story with Rowan was so sweet. I liked that Manon did not exactly soften through the series. I think she started caring more, but didn’t really soften. I think I would have liked her less had that happened. Elide and Lorcan were inevitable, and even though I saw it coming I still chuckled at Lord Lorcan Lochan.
All in all this has been one of my favorite series I have read lately.
Would love love love a novella about after this book to give an update on all the characters! Such a brilliant story and so many amazing characters that could do with a few more pages to capture their world’s after this book
Now what am I supposed to do with my life?
I honestly can’t believe this series is officially over. The series as a whole will forever stay locked in my heart.
I knew this finale would be an emotional heavyweight, but even knowing that, I wasn’t and could never have been prepared for where Maas took this story.
The level of raw emotion she’s able to pull us through left me astonished at every turn. Where something as simple as blinking can come to be something deeply meaningful and memorable.
I stayed up reading this long enough to see the sunrise because I could not put it down. My entire face hurt from crying so much.
That epilogue will forever remain one of the most beautiful pieces of literature Maas has ever blessed us with.
And if you really want to make yourself sob uncontrollably, go to the acknowledgments and read Maas’s note to her son Taran.
It’s over and if somebody could come pick me off of the floor that would be great, thanks.
A book that’s almost 1000 pages doesn’t scare me. The last book in a series that I’m completely obsessed with scares me. It COULD be too much. Or not enough even. But as per usual SJM did not disappoint.
First of all, let me say I’m glad this book was this big and not split into two books dragging it out because THAT would have upset me. It was exactly like how the endgame of a war should be. Battle here…battle there…battle…regroup. BOOM. WAR. END.
Second of all? Secondly? The character growth in this series in general is BANANAS. I’m looking at you, Dorian.
The women. THE WOMEN. Bad asses all the way. They are the illest of the ill.
Aelin- A Queen all the way. And until this book I forgot she was only 19. NINETEEN.
Lysandra- Literally clawed her way up from nothing. Abandoned as a child….to becoming essentially one of the Queen’s right hand. I see you, boo.
Manon- I want to be her when I grow up. That is all.
The Thirteen- I can’t even talk about this right now. Maybe not ever. Unless you want to see me ugly cry.
Elide- Human, abused, left crippled by her piece of shit uncle and still held her own against magical beings. Especially Lorcan. Ha!
Yrene-….. I WANT TO SAY SOME THINGS BUT IT’S HARD BECAUSE I’M TRYING NOT TO GIVE SPOILERS..but yea…definite bad ass.
I’d like to point out that being a bad ass (at least to me) isn’t just being able to wield a sword or magic. Some of the aforementioned women are not warriors , per se. What makes them bad ass is how they stare down the crap life throws their way and even when they fall they still manage to get back up. That is all.
The men are no less bad ass. But the women stole my heart. Well..save for Rowan. I’d punch through them all to get to Rowan LOL. At the beginning of the series I couldn’t even stand Dorian or Chaol. But now..we homies.
Also..anyone not mentioned doesn’t mean i didn’t care about them or they didn’t matter to the story…But as you can imagine seven books in …there are a lot of characters. lol
SJM still managed to surprise me a few times with things I didn’t see coming. So kudos for that.
I can’t believe it’s over. I’m still on the floor sobbing if anyone wants to help me up.
This was everything and so much more! The tears were flowing! Like a rushing river! I’m equal parts sad and relieved that this has ended. I could never ever get enough of these characters! The farewells were indeed heartbreaking and memorable. I feel as if I’ll forever think on certain events. This was surprising and so well concluded! I’m pretty sure that my heart stopped quite a few times along the way and I was absolutely freaking out more than once. I was giddy with pure excitement when I realized that Feyre and Rhysand were in this, though they are not named. I do feel like some things are left hanging in the wind. Please one day Ms. Maas give me more Manon and Dorian! I want to bask in their happily ever after and see their story told! I need more Abraxos in my life as well! This was a huge series and took me months to read, but it was time spent with my besties, and one day soon I’ll gladly begin the adventure all over again. If you love fantasy, true love, overcoming the odds and the deep bonds that friendships forges, read this!!! You’ll never read anything comparable to this. See why her readers have dubbed her Queen Maas!!!
Finally finished this crazy series. This series was absolutely breathtaking what an adventure we’ve had. That ending was so perfect!!!!! Honestly I dont have much to say as I already have on the past books. This series was amazing in every way. I cant wait to see what else Sarah J Maas has to offer us in new stories PLEASE GIVE ME MORE OF THIS lol.
Long live the Queen!!!!!!
I realize my review is very late, but I took a mental break from Sarah’s world. I went through KoA so quickly my processing time was slow. I loved it and I cried multiple times throughout the book. Sarah you did awesome and I couldn’t be happier with the way you wrote this monster of a book. Aelin, Rowan, Dorian, Manon, Chaol, Yrene, Elide, Lorcan, and so many more, thank you for your awesome journeys. I finally did a reread of the book and I think I’m ready to come at you all with my opinions, feelings, and thoughts. I did listen to part of this book on Audible and and I’m slowly starting to enjoy audiobooks. It helps my work commute is 30 minutes one way so I’ve got lots of time for listening. I know a lot of people in the fandom weren’t overly enthusiastic about KoA because they felt Sarah drug on the fight scenes and didn’t ended it realistically. All I have to say is she did a fabulous job in my opinion. She got backlash for ACoWAR and her fight scenes being short and dull. She comes back with a 992 long detailed war campaign and people still complain, so she did good. I won’t do any huge spoilers but I can say the ending for the most part was happy for me. There were casualties throughout the book and some ripped my heart out, but in the end I was content and crying for the wholesome moment(s). I could go on and on about KoA but I’ll wrap it up. I hope someday Sarah decides to come back to this world and give us the spin off stories we crave. This series has had a huge impact on me and I’m devastated its ended. All good things must come to an end though and I can’t wait for Sarah’s upcoming novels.
Great conclusion to a great series. Action packed.
SJM is one of my favorite authors! I recommend this series to my (senior year, high school) students as well as my 30-something year old friends.
This is the best series I have read in a long time. So much action and adventure. The characters were brilliant. I will probably reread this series again at a later date.
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Stunning conclusion that won’t leave the reader disappointed! I loved that there were generally happy endings for everyone, but I was shocked that more of these awesome characters weren’t killed off. That said, the death of the 13 absolutely GUTTED me, and I’ll be feeling that one for a long time. Probably the best death scene and most honorable in the whole book.
This did not end up being my favorite in the series, but it was a great conclusion that I’ll take with me into my dreams. Some parts were a bit lengthy, maybe a tad unnecessary?? And then, funnily enough, some parts just whizzed by and I was like, “WAIT, I WANT MORE DETAIL AND BACK STORY.” For example, tell me more about the Mycenians, Galan, and Rowan’s cousins, and I want to know how the khagnate’s interactions and reactions to war went between each other, and what were Manon and Dorian’s last words/interactions before she left for the Wastes???
Overall, a grand conclusion! Loved every minute that I spent reading this series. Looking forward to reading more of SJM work!
Death had been her curse and her gift and her friend for these long,long years. She was happy to greet it again under the golden morning sun.
This was EPIC!!!
Sarah rocks my world.
A condensed version see Amazon.com.au 4 full version…
Great Goddess of Literature This is One Of The Greatest Books I Have & Will Ever Read & I’m Only Part Way Into Chapter 31 of 122 Chapters (If you include the last chapter ‘A Better World’)!
I needed a man sized Kleenex with Aloe Vera to dry the tears from my eyes & snot bubbles forming at my nose after reading a certain scene (when you read it you’ll know what I mean, there will be no spoilers here, but it involves Aelin & Fenrys).
Every Character is first Rate, not one I did not enjoy reading or thought was less than Alein or Rowan.
Every scene written /described to perfection.
This is a rare trait, only accomplished by a select few authors.
Those with a genuine ability to walk me through the words, pages, world of their making as if I’m
‘Skin Walking’ in essence becoming one with characters (depending on the talent or gift of the author).
If this does not occur, I truly did not feel the book, I may have enjoyed or liked it, but did not truly become 1 with it unless taken on this incredible journey leaving behind a body crippled by pain and whisked away in my mind in a new form / body of each character, like an avatar enabling me too live a full & marvellous adventure as if it was my own body & mind preforming these tasks, enabling me too walk & talk with My Legs, My Arms, My Mind and Spoken Through My Mouth Speaking Ms Mass’s Words!
This is the greatest compliment I can pay to a truly talented author for the incredible gift I read & now listen too at the same time.
I find this now takes me too a deeper place & level, almost like a meditation which whisks me away from the pain & sorrowness of my everyday life and unco-operative body into a magical adventure I don’t want to return from or find it difficult to leave even after the acknowledgments have been read & the book jacket closed for the last time & the book put back on the shelf!
This Book Is Out Of This World And I Wish I Could Rate It Higher, I Want To Rate Kingdom Of Ash 6 Out Of 5!
Do not buy the book, buy the whole damn series including the audio’s & Narrator Elizabeth Evan’s is Absolutely Awesome & the way she defines each character with a different voice & tone is truly magical!
This is the First Audiobook Series I have listen too & Absolutely Adored. Ms Evans U are s Genius!
It’s almost like a meditation that always picks up straight where I left off the day before. And as soon as I open the page & press play I am immediately transported back into The Throne of Glass Series,
no matter how long its been since I last heard & saw the story.
You help to whisk me away into the same incredible journey Sarah J. Maas does & can not thank you both enough.
I love leaving behind my pain wracked body at home, taking my mind and my new body/s on an adventure to places & worlds it could never go or reach and having my body or limbs perform activities it could not possibly ever obtain or or achieve in real life.
It’s no wonder I never want to leave the story, even once the final chapter is read, the cover is closed & the words cease to be heard. I won’t say exist, as I still hear them & think of them 4 days or weeks!
I highly recommend all formats of this story, the paperback – (ah the smell of the paper, the feel of it, the turning of the pages, it immediately transports you). The ebook format – so easy to read, giving you the ability to take the story with you no matter where in the world you are without the added weight of multiple books weighing you down, taking up valuable luggage room & if you forget the paperback, it matters not, you never forget your mobile.
Plus with these books being so long (which I love btw) with a severe back & shoulder injury I can not hold a large heavy novel for hours on end to read,
so my light mobile or tablet – Is God sent! or in this case Goddess Sent!
And last by not least being able to hear an author’s words come to life it must be bliss especially when Narrated by a top notch artist who nails every word, tone & inflection in just the right place or way!
Elizabeth Evans takes a breath in the right places and continues on where she should. Listening to earlier books in this series on audio disc, I found it was way
too slow for my personal reading speed, which of course can be annoying, but at the same time those gaps in space & time are needed, but with Audible Audiobooks, rather than the audio disc books, I am able to set the speed – I can slow it down or speed up the narrative to match my reading speed!
What an absolutely Awesome Feature!!!
So while at Chapter 31, I believed I still had a dual All-Time Favourite Series & Author, but I am currently at chapter 93 of Kingdom of Ash & I was so tired, both emotionally & physically drained & so thoroughly exhausted, my exhaustion was exhausted after reading several chapters last night, (I will explain momentarily) that today I have decided to spend a freezing cold winters day in bed after South Australian’s worst storm of the year last night!
Although I may jump in a hot bath with both my ebook & audibook of K.O.A. with a glass of wine & unwind!
The scenes I’m referring too are: The one where Manon / Abraxos go up against Iskra & her giant bull & he latches onto Abraxos’s throat! Oh My Goddesses,
I bawled & bawled, with tears streaming freely down my face & intermixing with snot bubbles (sorry for the graffic description)!
Actually I lost it when Petrah came to the rescue of Manon / Abraxos & hearing Manon’s desperate pleads of “Please” to Iskra, & cried more as I heard Petrah’s finawords to Iskra of “For Keelie” (another scene, that had me a totl emotioal wreck!)
Then I read “Live Manon”!
Seriously “Live Manon”!
How is that not meant too wrench the heart in two?
And then I really lost the plot!
If I thought I lost it over Abraxos, it was nothing compared too the loss of The Thirteen!
Oh My Goddess, it was so well-written!
I felt the loss as if I was Manon herself! The way you described the friendship, sisterhood, sacrifice & devotion to one another just blews me away!
And then comes the tribute the people of Erilia, paid to the spot of the battle, a memorial to the 12 of The 13 & their Wyverns, all sacrificed on that site of that final confrontation & how That Bitch of a Blackbeak Matron, deserveedly recieved her comeuppance & that it was dealt out by Asteron (a 2nd), rather than by Manon (a leader) was pure perfection!
This wonderful Coven, who had it drilled into their heads on how they were created, not born & had no heart,
showed their Matron exactly how big their hearts were & that they not only did it for Manon, but for the good of all of Erilia was to put it simply, Magical!
(As was the wording of a sea of flowers growing from a bloody ground of Sacrifice to bring the land back & witches back as 1, as was that speech by the Crochran Matron, it was just so poetic, beautiful & true of all the witches.
I loved loved loved how they came together as One!
In turn lifting a curse enabling them too return as a United Coven & One People too their barren homeland ‘The Wastes’ Reunited as they should be under the learership of a true & honourable Queen!
Manon!
I only wish I could write it justice here myself describing it.
I thought I had shed every tear I was capable of until the reunion / first meeting of Aelin / Dorian / Chaol / Yrene.
Once again it was so beautifully written showing the true depth of this spectacular friendships built on love, trust, loyalty, devotion, strength & sometimes full of honesty / sometimes full of dishonesty, but always for their protection!
It takes an incredible talent to enable me to feel if I’m ‘skin walking’ in all of the characters.
This unique gift both you wonderful ladies have created & nurture had me so deeply involved in the roles, every loss, every love, every heartache, every experience of torture I felt as if it was occurring to me personally.
The level of depth I became involved, while reading/ listening has taken my reading experience to new level and now, I couldn’t imagine reading a book without listening too.
OMGODDESS!!!
I just completed Kingdom of Ash,
Another night of tears & feelings No Book, Series or Artist has ever provoked in me before!
I now say I have a Sole All-Time Favourite Series!
I will never forget this ride & thanks, Ms Maas for the Thank You, you wrote in Acknowledgements to We The Readers!
Honestly those words were truly felt, so sincerely.
Produced a lump the size of Uluru, in my throat, bringing slithers of silver welling to the cusp of my lids & fell over the lip, tumbling down my face!
Through the characters in this series I have lived a life my body & mind no longer allows me too live (due to multiple injuries, migraines & illnesses).
I fought bravely standing toe to toe on the battlefields, I danced in Rowan’s arms as we waltzed at my coronation in my golden slippers,
my heart broke, bleed & shredded at the loss of my 12 sacrificing sisters & their incredible mounts.
My body shifted into so many forms changing my skin from fur to hide to scales to armour & occured so many times & in so many forms, I lost count.
I fell in Love a little more with those Spectacular Sapphire eyes of Dorian’s each time I beheld his in mine & the joy I felt upon learning his Father’s name,
after having Erawan return it b4 perishing, it too had the walls of my damn bursting again (seriously when aren’t they, reading these last 3 books)
And I felt the pain & ache of Chaol’s back & spine as it ached in this snow & cold of Terrasen (as mine felt the biting cold of an Adelaidian Winter’s eve and
I finally had the reunion of setting foot back in my true home & Kingdom,
one that I had not seen since my stolen childhood. For Terrasen!
For Now & Always, because at heart I am Truly Fae!
Jewelz Pederick.
(From The )
(Bye Love From The Crazy Australian BookWorm)!
I absolutely love the Throne of Glass series and the last one just made me love it more. WARNING: SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
I loved all of the scenes even the ones that reduced me to tears like the yielding of the Thirteen except Manon and the death of Gavriel. There are so many others. I died at the “tell me tomorrow” at the end because it tied back to the first book and I just can’t. And Aelin’s goodbye to Dorian and Chaol just killed me because those were the three characters who started it all. Those last two and the ending was what made me realize that it was over. And when Elorcan sailed I just was laughing and crying and I just died. I also died when Fenrys revealed his last name. The two names Fenrys Moonbeam and Lord Lorcan Lochan will always make me laugh. Theres so much I can say about this book, this series. I loved every moment of this series and j have a hole in my chest because it’s over. But I will keep reading this series again and again. To whatever end.
I finally read this! Throne of Glass has long been a favorite series of mine, but it took me a while to get through this wonderful behemoth of a book. I laughed, I cried, I loved the triumph and how all of the different threads of the story came together at last.
The final installment in the Throne of Glass series is a must read
OMG I love it
Just great
So sad to see this story come to an end.
The whole series was fantastic!
Sarah J Maas puts every beloved character through a crucible of fire in this fantastic volume of an epic series.