Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

I had a rare moment in which I read a few reviews of this book before I even picked it up. One of them mentioned that it was “slow” and that it kind of put them off continuing with the rest of the series. I bought it and read it anyway, because I usually ignore the opinions of others when it comes to books and films, and I think perhaps that reader was expecting it to be like the first two books. I found that there were equal amounts of down time and action, much less secrecy, more character growth. Also, a lot of the lure and history of the land was given through story telling by several new characters, which I personally enjoyed. I love it when a book gives you a ton of background information about the world, it makes the story so much more interesting. I am glad that I chose to not consider what others had said because we got to go to Wendlyn with Celaena, where magic still exists. We also get several different point of view chapters from characters we already knew, Dorian, Chaol, and Celaena, and new ones. There is more death in this book, more inner torment, and misery, but also a small glimmer of hope. I’m pretty excited to see what happens in the fourth book in this series, even though I have a feeling that things are going to get a lot worse before they start to get better considering that after Heir of Fire there are still four books to go.