spoiler visualizarcams 03/06/2023
Just finished re-reading this book and i'm overwhelmed with how much the characters have grown. you don't get this feeling because of the amount of books written before this one, you feel it because sjm gave everything she had for this one and i mean it!
i found myself in tears through the last chapters because this is not a story about a girl who became an assassin at such an early age, had been enslaved and now is trying to get her freedom back... this is a story of a woman, a queen, who wants a better world for her people and court; a story of love and salvation, of redemption, of hope.
aedion finally reuniting with his cousin and both of them sharing how much they've lost and how eager they are to have their kingdom back.
lysandra being free of arobynn and clarisse (evangeline as well).
manon being taught that witches weren't meant to obey simply, but to love.
i could list so many things out of so many characters because sarah really took her time onto giving development to every. single. character.
i couldn't end this without talking about rowan and how lovely their romance is. you can feel the agony of them thinking they don't deserve each other, but they crawled out of their dark paths into light together and how much it warmed my heart... and there's no reason to rush anything. every rowaelin scene was pure perfection.
finally, the og trio. i'm truly captivated on how much they have grown. chaol realizing there's more to life than serving the crown blindly and re-shaping every thought of his. i remember him being repulsed by aelin when she first shifted into a fae in front of him and look at them now.
dorian leaving his post as a prince who was known for bedding different women every now and then, not giving too much value to his title to embracing the weight of now owning a kingdom.
and aelin... i'm so biased. she is perfect, amazing, if she ever did something wrong is because she was trying to do it right.
lord, king and queen.
sarah wrote this so beautifully and after all these years, it still has a special place in my heart.
i hope to read this again in a few years and feel all of this again.