This book is so so much darker than ACOMAF. I do think I liked ACOMAF better though. It was good writing, but I think Sarah could have done better. I understand she was stressed, and sick, and traveling, and balancing like fifty billion books. I would have rather had her push back the release date and just edit and rewrite the crap out of this. I swear to god, if this book turned out this way because she went extra on chaol's supposed-to-be-a-fucking-novella I am going to have a fit.