After leaving you with a massive cliffhanger, Maas spends the sixth book of the Throne of Glass series on a side quest of Chaol Westfall, former Captain of the Guard. Paralyzed by the King of Adarlan and traumatized by recent events, Chaol sets off with Nesryn to request aid in the war from the Khagan of the Southern Continent. Working with a talented healer, Chaol learns more about the Valg than they realized.

Although Tower of Dawn made Chaol more understandable and added to the greater world-building of the series, it was a let-down to go from Empire of Storms's high-action cliffhanger to Tower of Dawn's slow predictable storyline.