The next three fiction books I read are probably going to be the last three books in the Throne of Glass series, because I am incredibly excited and impatient to see how the rest of this story goes. The book was well named, as the majority of the story follows Aelin working towards her goals through missions and business transactions in the grimy underground and alleyways of Rifthold both on her own and with the rebels.
I finally became slightly interested in the Thirteen of the Blackbeak clan after a few moments between Manon and her second, Asterin. I usually grudgingly read through all the chapters in her perspective because I found their emotions, those usually being limited to anger and violence, to be so boring. They start to show some individuality finally as they question authority. I am kind of interested to see what path their story takes.
There are a lot of huge story changing events that occur in this book, one being that a major character dies. I certainly did not expect this individual to die until the final book, which leaves me to wonder what kinds of challenges the protagonists are going to have to face in order to destroy the true face behind the evil. It seems like a lot of them have already been through almost too much, it makes you wonder how much more of a beating in both the physical and emotional sense can some of them take. It’s going to be hard to keep up my practice of trying to alternate nonfiction reads with fiction ones if the next book, Empire of Storms, is as thrilling as this book was.
Nonfiction and Nonsense 