I ate this book UP. I cried, I laughed. So many schemes, so many twists. This was a really fun ride. SJM got me again. Fuck.

It's not perfect, a few things still stand out to me as cheesy or convenient, clearly meant to move the plot forward rather than to make sense in the moment, but I honestly don't care about those things here and there. I'm all in, I love these characters so much. This is my favorite book in the series so far.

I had the rockiest start with this series, it's actually surprising to me how invested I am in it now. Those novellas really turned things around for me. Or I should say, Sam and Aelin's story really turned things around for me. I went from reading the books cause I felt like I had to cause I bought the first 3, to being very excited to get to them and now I'm pacing myself because I don't want to be done with it too quickly. I'll start the tandem read next month and I'm so hyped.