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Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)
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Le sigh. I really wanted to love Queen of Shadows. But ... what was this?
5%, only FIVE PERCENT dang it, have given this book 3 stars or less. Unfortunately, I am a part of that 5%. Thatvery lonely 5% of people.
I just felt that many of the characters changed. And I don't mean that they evolved slowly and beautifully and grew into themselves. I mean CHANGED. I mean that they flipped the switch. They felt unrecognizable, off. My poor, dear Chaol got the brunt of this. His character does a complete 180 with no real reason except to make way for this new romance. He becomes so minor. So extraneous. Sort of just like Dorian. These two together got about 80 pages of the 600. Ugh, it killed me. I NEVER thought that it would become this way.
Aelin's/Celaena's/whatever's and Rowan's changes were also like Jack-in-the-box tricks. And I hate those. Remember Crown of Midnight? Didn't Celaena say that she's always pick Chaol? There was SOMETHING between these two, but then she met Rowan, and everything just went to hell. I've never really been able to like Celaena, but she had such childish moments in this book. Anyone remember that nightgown scene?
This series used to be about an awesome and dynamic trio: Celaena, Chaol and Dorian. What we're getting now: Aelin, Rowan, Manon (Ugh. Manon's boring. I seriously forgot she even existed prior to reading this), and Aedion. I miss how it was before.
Besides all these things, I guess the rest wasn't bad. There's a fair amount of action and fighting. And it made me feel. I wasn't detached. I still cared about the lowly Chaol and Dorian. And I really loved Chaol and Dorian's bromance. That was one of the things I initially liked about the series. Celaena walked over Dorian, but Chaol stuck by him. I LOVE that. And ... Abraxos. YES.
Overall, I don't love what this series has become, but there's absolutely no way I'm not continuing on. I haven't read 4 books just to ditch it now. But now I know what to expect.
2.5 stars
Now for one spoiler. In the end, Chaol's (view spoiler)
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bookshelves: buddy-read, annoying-characters, long-read, over-600-pages, series-dnf
Apr 16, 2015
bookshelves: buddy-read, annoying-characters, long-read, over-600-pages, series-dnf
Le sigh. I really wanted to love Queen of Shadows. But ... what was this?
5%, only FIVE PERCENT dang it, have given this book 3 stars or less. Unfortunately, I am a part of that 5%. That
I just felt that many of the characters changed. And I don't mean that they evolved slowly and beautifully and grew into themselves. I mean CHANGED. I mean that they flipped the switch. They felt unrecognizable, off. My poor, dear Chaol got the brunt of this. His character does a complete 180 with no real reason except to make way for this new romance. He becomes so minor. So extraneous. Sort of just like Dorian. These two together got about 80 pages of the 600. Ugh, it killed me. I NEVER thought that it would become this way.
Aelin's/Celaena's/whatever's and Rowan's changes were also like Jack-in-the-box tricks. And I hate those. Remember Crown of Midnight? Didn't Celaena say that she's always pick Chaol? There was SOMETHING between these two, but then she met Rowan, and everything just went to hell. I've never really been able to like Celaena, but she had such childish moments in this book. Anyone remember that nightgown scene?
This series used to be about an awesome and dynamic trio: Celaena, Chaol and Dorian. What we're getting now: Aelin, Rowan, Manon (Ugh. Manon's boring. I seriously forgot she even existed prior to reading this), and Aedion. I miss how it was before.
Besides all these things, I guess the rest wasn't bad. There's a fair amount of action and fighting. And it made me feel. I wasn't detached. I still cared about the lowly Chaol and Dorian. And I really loved Chaol and Dorian's bromance. That was one of the things I initially liked about the series. Celaena walked over Dorian, but Chaol stuck by him. I LOVE that. And ... Abraxos. YES.
Overall, I don't love what this series has become, but there's absolutely no way I'm not continuing on. I haven't read 4 books just to ditch it now. But now I know what to expect.
2.5 stars
Now for one spoiler. In the end, Chaol's (view spoiler)
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Reading Progress
April 16, 2015
– Shelved
September 5, 2015
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Started Reading
September 10, 2015
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33.0%
"I now see what all the fuss is about.
Who is this new Chaol?
What is going on?!"
Who is this new Chaol?
What is going on?!"
September 12, 2015
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55.0%
"Is it just me, or is Aelin Galathynius as much a mouthful as Celaena Sardothien?"
September 24, 2015
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80.0%
September 29, 2015
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Finished Reading
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Sep 06, 2015 05:19AM
I'm so jealous!!Still waiting for my copy!:'(
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Oh I know that feeling :(I hope you get it soon!
*crosses fingers*Hope you'll enjoy it!!:)
Oh bummer! Sorry you didn't like it. I loved it because I never liked Chaol. I was rooting for Dorian, and then when Rowan came along, I was happy for a new option. Chaol was a boring fuck in my eyes. But, I'm among the lonely 5% in that opinion. ;)
how did you know about the 5%?? where can we see these statistics
@Jilly - Rowan probably has more layers to him than Chaol does ^.^I wouldn't have minded the switch, I just wish it felt more natural and not so forced.
@Leenah - If you look at the book page Queen of Shadows, right next to the 4.67, there's 'rating details' that has it.
Tila I'm with you I have it 2.5 as well but rounded up. Maas was sorta careless with her characters and OMG Celeana and the nightgown thing *throws up a little in my mouth* until this book I felt like all her books were getting better but a lot of this was a jumbled mess for me. Actually I hated the first half except for the witches storyline. The transition didn't go well in this book at all for me.
100% agree with you Robin! So I'll forgive you for spelling my name wrong ;)
Stupid phone...it doesn't like new words. It also likes to randomly put comma's after As. So I'll look at something I wrote later and it will beTwila I'm totally with you after a,long time I still think Maas's transition was choppy wth (view spoiler)
see commas after As make no sense but somehow my phone thinks that is what I want to do.
Huh, that would totally irk me. My phone is in the 'terrible twos' stage right now. But at least it still knows who's boss.Just bang yours against a desk really hard, it'll fix it right up.
Not really, don't do it!
Ahem, I just hope nothing happens to Tamlin and Feyre. Rhysand is concerning me!
Twila wrote: "Ahem, I just hope nothing happens to Tamlin and Feyre. Rhysand is concerning me!"Same here xD
Twila wrote: "Ahem, I just hope nothing happens to Tamlin and Feyre. Rhysand is concerning me!"I will rage if she did all that stuff for love in ACOTAR just to have it screwed with later. If she breaks them up I will be pissed
Holy crap this whole review explains all my feelings about the direction this whole series went!
Yes, yes and yes, Twila. It's completely ok for a character to fall in love and then fall out of love and then fall in love with another person, but ugh, she could have done so without wiping the floor and cleaning the toilet with Chaol. She turned him into an irrelevant character.
^^^ this Also how many loves are we supposed to go through. Too many in this series
@Robin 5? They're all in love with her. Idk why since she's horrible in this one but...eh. =.=
Hahah...maybe I'd like it better is not everyone was in love with her.
If Feyre and Rhysand get together, it all would have been for nothing! I really don't get why Mass loves screwing up relationships. She's driving a lot of fans crazy.
Another thing that bothered me was that everyone needs a love interest. Can't anyone be single and happy? Next book, I'm predicting Dorian and Manon -.-
Twila so true! Why can't we see a badass lady that doesn't need a man?
Awesome, honest review, Twila. I don't know why I couldn't bring myself to read the rest of the books in the series. I've only read the first and it wasn't really super special IMO.^^
@Aj - I didn't think the series was anything special either. But I still found them enjoyable, you know? They're not so much now but I still find them readable.
This was a series that I couldn't get into. I tried to read the first book and didn't get very far before I set it aside (and immediately picked up another book that I loved, so I'm glad I did that). And based on the reviews I've seen (both those who loved and those who hated), I don't think I would be very happy with this series at this point.
