Took me a while to get into just because I did not like Chaol (still not really a fan of him but I can tolerate him a little more now). I do feel like Sarah has a bad habit of always needing to make couples out of characters, not allowing characters to be on their own once they have grown, it's like their reward is just jumping straight into a relationship. Choal also treats a lot of the women in his life like objects, he lusts after them and then once he gets what he wants he figures out he never really likes them.

For example, When he said he never loved Nesryn and when he went on a whole rant about not being happy that Aelin found Rowan. Chaol is just a very selfish character and to me, he started off a 1/10 and ended off being a 3/10. He is not a character that I can ever find myself respecting due to his treatment of many of the women in the series

Anyway, I was REALLY invested in Nesryn's character development and storyline. TOD does a great job at exploring her WITHOUT Chaol and I am happy with where her story left off.

One thing I was not expecting was the twist with who the villain was, however, I am VERY tired of Sarah "killing" characters just to bring them back to life 2 pages later, tbf it's getting old and it no longer keeps me at the edge of my seat because I KNOW she won't let that character REALLY die.

I'm looking forward to finishing the story and I can't wait to see all the characters brought together again.