Hello, I just read a 980 page book in 4 days. No regrets, though.

This was epic and there’s only one way to describe how I feel now: I am lost and I do not know the way. I started crying with the prologue and I don’t think I really stopped until now. Every other chapter had me sobbing. I don’t think I have any more tears left in me.

I must say this last book had a very strong Lord of the Rings vibe to it. It begins 2-ish months after Empire of Storms where we have:

I loved loved loved the friendship between Aelin and Fenrys. That bond they forged after going through months of hell together was just precious. And the relationship between Aedion and Gavriel warms my heart, seeing how proud Gavriel is of his son and how everything he does is not for Aelin or Terrasen or anyone but Aedion. Also, quick shout-out to Borte and Evangeline for being awesome and my new best friends.

Now, I have to mention 2 moments that I thought were exquisitely done. The first one is

Manon being crowned queen and her rallying the crochans with the whole “your queen summons you to war, will you fly?”. It gave me chills. And the second one is Dorian channeling his inner Aelin in Morath, very impressive.

What bothered me the most is that the whole find the wyrdkeys and forge the lock drama that has been going on since the very beginning was

utterly useless. Aelin forged the lock and what changed? She lost her power. That’s it. She didn’t get anything useful out of it. Not a very wise thing to do, if you ask me.

Just because I had fun writing it, here’s a summary of sorts (mild spoilers ahead):
Me: Rowan get your ass to Doranelle.
Rowan: *Looking for Aelin in all the wrong places for months*
Elide: Wouldn’t she be in Doranelle?
Lorcan and Rowan: No.
Aelin: I’M IN DORANELLE YOU BUZZARD
Fenrys: *Saves Aelin*
Rowan: We came to save you, oh you’re already running free.
Me: Everyone get your asses to Terrasen.
Aelin and the cadre: Coming
Chaol and the khaganate: Coming
Rolfe: *Out of office*
Manon and Dorian: *Flirting*
Erawan: Let’s send our spare soldiers to Anielle.
Chaol and the khaganate: Let’s completely change our route and waste precious time and soldiers saving Anielle.
Aelin: Oh look, a ruk! Why help Terrasen when we can delay ourselves for weeks and help save Anielle? We can go hang with some royals and deplete all my power because why would I save it anyways? Fun times.
Aedion: I’ve been holding the damn line for months. Everybody get your asses here!
Vaughan: Can’t, I’m hunting for Lorcan.
Dorian: Can’t, I’ve decided it’s finally time to look for the third wyrdkey since no one else seems to care about that little detail.
Rolfe: I’m back, how do you like pirates?
Manon: Here I am, saving you poor mortals once again. What would you ever do without me?
Aelin: Everybody chill. No rush. Oh look, a spell that opens a portal between locations, that’s useless.
Aedion, Lysandra, Galan, Ansel, Ilias and the Whitethorns: AELIN EVERYONE IS FUCKING DYING FOR YOU, GET YOURSELF UP HERE
Aelin: Oh, hello Dorian. Let’s get rid of our powers before going to Terrasen because why would we ever need them?
Manon: Aelin, if you don’t bring that army to Orynth I will drag all of you here myself and it won’t be pretty.
Aelin: Can't, we're trapped in a snowstorm.
Some tree spirit: Aelin you must hurry.
Aelin: Okay everyone, we’re getting to Orynth right now. Oh look, something fancy for me to ride on.

And I’ll leave it at that because you know, spoilers. All you need to know is that it involves tears, a lot of them.

You know what I need now? Novellas. On Borte and Yeran's backstory and future and everything that happened in between but we did not get to see. On the days after the battle for Aedion and Lysandra and 

their wedding

. On Rowan and Aelin's kids. Just gimme some novellas.