This entry is going to be about my opinions of Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas. It's the third book in the throne of Glass series, and if you have not read the book I first of all reccomend you to do that, and second of all I suggest that you don't read this entry since there are going to be spoilers from the entire book in it. So here we go I guess: The second book ended with that Celaena was shipped of to Wendlyn, on a mission from the King of Adarlan, as his champion. Before she boarded the ship she whispered a date to Chaol. He later checked it up and realized that it was the day the king and queen of Terassen had been assassinated, and when the princess, Aelin, had disappeared. So he figured out that Celaena was the lost princess.
Heir of Fire is all about when Celaena, or Aelin, is in Wendlyn, trying to get into Doranelle in order to get answers from the Fae queen Maeve about the Wyrdkeys, that the king of Adarlan is using in order to control his kingdom. She meets some new characters in Wendlyn, among them a fae man called Rowan who will be a pretty important character in the book, and also a guy called Luca and an old man called Emrys.
The chapters in this beautifully, amazingly perfect book are divided between Celaena and the things happening in Wendlyn, Dorian and Chaol back in Adarlan, but also a whole new character. Her name is Manon Blackbeak and she's the heir of the blackbeak witch clan. She and all the other witches in her clan and two other clans (yellowlegs and blueblood) are going to train wyverns (a dragon specie) on the King's order. To be honest, I didn't really understand that part of the book. I think it was because the king wanted some sort of army of dragons, so in exchange of working for him they got their very own wyverns.
Anyways, this book was so freaking great that I haven't finished this book review until now (about three weeks after I finished it) because I've had the worst book slump after that. It was so good that I just wanted more of the series, but knowing that the forth book won't be released until september put me in a state where I couldn't read any other book or write this review. So for these three weeks I've been trying really hard to start reading again but i've only accomplished to read about 150 pages in Cress and about 20 pages in The Immortal Rules (yes I'm reading two books at the same time, although I don't usually do that).
But back to this stunningly beautiful book! If you haven't started to read the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas you have to! It's one of the best series ever! YOU HAVE TO READ IT!
I know that I've been hyping a bit over the first two books so it shouldn't be surprising that I'm hyping over this book as well. I mean; the character's are amazing, nobody's perfect and everyone has a story, and the world and the whole idea of the book series is super duper mega great, and the relationships between everyone are special from person to person, from one relation to another. And especially the whole idea around how Celaena is the lost princess. I did not see that coming until I accidently read the ending of Crown of Midnight when I had about 200 pages left of it... But still. I wouldn't have suspected it until the ending otherwise.
The character developments through the books are fantastic too. No one is becoming a flawless person in one second, everyone is developing in their own way in their own pace.
Another reason for my love to these books is the plottwists and surprises and unexpected scenarios. Like for example Dorian's magic. I did not see that coming, why does he have magic? And as I've mentioned before the huge plottwist where Celaena is the lost princess of Terassen.
But not only the bigger things, also the little details that I wasn't expecting. Like when Sorsha was beheaded; I literally screamed and cried, because I really shipped her and Dorian, but then she just died... Just like that... And even though this was a horrible thing I still love when I get little unexpected surprises like that.
This book was sooooo sooooo soooo good that I cannot give it anything lower than 9.5/10. I would give it a 10/10, but the reason I'm not doing that is because I had a hard time getting into the book. Not becasue it was slow or anything, but becaseu I had so much to do in school so it just felt as if it was slow when I could only read about two pages at a time and then I had to do something else. But after about 100 pages I really got into it and read constantly for a few days (I'm a pretty slow reader so yes; it took a few days).
I recommend this book to anyone who is into high fantasy, or if you like urban fantasy or some other kind of fantasy and want to try high fantasy. The Throne of Glass series is seriously the best high fantasy series that I know of!
~ Filippa ~
