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Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I dont think you fuckers realize how fecking amazing this series is
“So she steeled herself. “I have never told anyone this story. No one in the world knows it. But it’s mine,” she said, blinking past the burning in her eyes, “and it’s time for me to tell it.”
This series is either a love or hate for most, but either way you have to admit how brilliant the writing is for the whole series, how dynamic the characters are and how shocking those freaking PLOT twists are !!
Celaena our heroine– broken and exhausted by life… and goddamn I relate to that
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love. You do not have the right to wish she were not what she is.”
But she learns to embrace her powers and control them. Sometimes it takes a monster to fight a monster.
“Perhaps they would never get out of it, perhaps they would never be whole again, but … “Together,” she said, and took his outstretched hand.
And somewhere far and deep inside her, an ember began to glow.”
It’s honestly been SUCH an amazing journey on how far our character has come. I mean seriously, her story is just fucking amazing and complex and intricate and everything has meaning and comes together and this world is just awesome
“She told him of the years in Rifthold, of stealing Asterion horses and racing across the desert, of dancing until dawn with courtesans and thieves and all the beautiful, wicked creatures in the world. “
Aelin is so much more developed now three books later and with each calculated move, you love her more. Her story has become so much more than the simple assassin trying to buy her freedom we first met. Now a powerful queen willing to fight for everyone’s freedom….once she figures out how to masters her powers that is
“She was not its slave. She was no one’s slave anymore. And if Rowan threw one more damned dagger at her face— He did.”
That firebreathing bitch (✿ ♥‿♥) And of course I fell in love with Rowan
“Wipe that smarmy, lying smile off your face.” His voice was as dead as his eyes, but it had a razor-sharp bite behind it.
She kept her smarmy, lying smile. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Even Rowan found out that she is so much more than the deadly insane assassin persona she showed to the world for so many years. And really how could he fucking judge, the goddamn fey assassin for fucking queen Maeve *eye rolling*
“At least if you’re going to hell,” he said, the vibrations in his chest rumbling against her, “then we’ll be there together.”
“I feel bad for the dark god already.”
And the training scenes were hilarious !! Sometimes this can be a dull part of a book OR worse!! When people are suddenly masters of epic powers *grrrrr* Instead, she epically messed up… quite a lot… Aelin had to learn to control her abilities and fucked up quite a bit, to be honest
“But each morning brought something new, something harder and different and miserable. Gods, he was brilliant. Cunning and wicked and brilliant.
Even when he beat the hell out of her. Every. Damn. Day.”
CAN’T YOU JUST PICTURE IT !
She began the story as Celaena: assassin of Adarlan betrayed by loved Chaol, manipulated by Nehemia, and scared of her own power and destiny. She ended as
Spoiler
Aelin Ashryver Galathynius
“She was as much a queen as Maeve. She was the sovereign of a strong people and a mighty kingdom. She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
And it all comes together with reiterating my FAVORITE quote from the first book
“I will call in every favor, every debt owed to Celaena Sardothien, to my parents, to my bloodline. And then…” She looked toward the sea, toward home. “And then I am going to rattle the stars.”
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