In retrospect, I wish I had read this book first instead of third.

While I enjoyed meeting the new characters (who, I'm sure, will play a part in the rest of the series) and liked the new characters, I was really unable to get attached to the characters I was supposed to be attached to, since I already knew their fate.

I need to know more about this book and how it came to be. Were these novellas released to fans one at a time as bonus content, and then condensed into a book once SJM realized she could make more money off them? Because this story would have been much more cohesive without all the breaks and pauses and re-explaining things 5 times across each novella.

I'm sorry, but I just couldn't get attached to Sam. Their romance was not believable. There's no way to build an E2L romance across 5 novellas. I didn't get any chemistry at all, especially on Celaena's side. It seems so out of character for S to throw everything away for someone she, at best, was indifferent towards but thought was hot, at worst, hated, only a month prior. 

I would very much like SJM to start writing heroines that are in their mid-20s because reading all this about a 17-year-old is just not clicking for me. 

Arobynn, I will celebrate your downfall, POS.