Heir of Fire was definitely a turning point for this series. Ever since Celaena left for Wendlyn the story improved enormously, becoming much richer and layered with characters and plot lines. That being said, this book was kinda slow. Not boring or dragging, just slow. I’ve found that the books in this series tend to have everything happen in the last 100-200 pages which are full of awesomeness, but that means this really didn’t need to be 650 pages long.

Just to get the point across, this is what gets accomplished in the first 500-ish pages:

–Saving Aedion
–Reuniting with Rowan
–Killing Arobynn
–Befriending and saving Lysandra
–Lorcan comes snooping around (I still don’t fully get this guy)
–Manon debating what she should do

And this is what gets accomplished in the last 100-ish pages:

–Freeing magic
–Saving Dorian
–Learning the truth about Erawan
–Killing the king
–Manon finally deciding to do something about the whole mess
–Kaltain redeeming herself and being a badass
–Going back to Terrasen

So yeah, that’s that. I’ve also been thinking that this whole series didn’t really need Fae in it. Badassery and magic? Yes. Fae? Not really. And it would’ve made it different from A Court of Thorns and Roses because they are too similar in too many ways. But what’s done is done.

Now can we please talk about the women in this book? Because damn. The guys are nothing without the ladies saving their sorry asses. Rowan sort of disappointed me in that regard. He’s supposed to be pretty much the greatest warrior in history. He’s a legend, men tell stories about him around fires, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone had written a song about him at some point. And yet he still manages to almost get himself killed several times.

I still like Rowan and he’s the perfect match for Aelin, but do you know who I love? Aedion. For his personality, for everything he is and is not and for everything he stands for. He’s such a perfect lovely cinnamon roll and needs to be protected at all costs. He deserves to be happy.

And you know who else deserves that? Lysandra. My baby girl has gone through so much and she’s such a badass and I love her to death. I would really love for Aedion and Lysandra to be together. That has the potential to be a love story for the ages. Side note: to fully get Lysandra's character, do yourself a favor and read the novellas first. You're welcome.

I also have to mention my third baby and cinnamon roll: Abraxos. He likes to look at the stars and sniff flowers and is just the cutest. He knows right from wrong and can tell when someone needs help and I just want to befriend him and hug him.

As for the rest of the characters, I really like the witches and their story line but not much happened with them other than Manon debating what to do the whole time. Oh, and that epic fight were she almost gets killed. I don’t care about the rest of the witches but I really want the Thirteen to ally with Aelin and Dorian. Speaking of which, I felt kinda meh about Dorian in the first books but he’s been growing on me lately and I think Manon will do wonders for him. Then there’s Chaol and Nesryn, who I do not care about at all.

By the way, I feel like this series has too many fake love interests: