I read this book in 12 hours straight and it was the best book I have ever read. 
 this was so incredibly amazing that I can't even put it into words - I was sad and happy crying, laughing, screaming, smiling like an idiot, throwing the book across the room, gasping and getting goosebumps throughout the entire book. 
 the whole story tied together so perfectly and I could not be more happy with the direction its going in. 
 only downside - having to wait a year for the next novel!!! 
 ps: ROWAN. <3 
 QUESTIONS/THOUGHTS FOR THE NEXT BOOK: 
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 1. Where is the Queen of Adarlan/the Kings wife at? 
 2. Where's Manon's grandmother and all those other crazy old witches at? 
 3. What about that guy that gave her the spider silk in the novella? She said he could come find her - will he somehow come back? 
 4. What about Ansel? 
 5. How did Kaltain find that Wyrdmark? 
 6. Is there anyone left out there who still have collars and/or rings on? 
 7. Was Eyllwe freed when the king died? 
 8. WHAT WAS THE KINGS FREAKING NAME 
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 (view spoiler)[ I decided to come back and edit my review because as soon as I finished reading, I read some other reviews and was bombarded with 
 "They're all so OOC" 
 "Instalove" 
 "Nesryn is a plot filler" 
 "Why is Aelin a bitch to Chaol" 
 "Why isn't Aelin with Chaol" 
 and I'm here like DID YOU EVEN READ THE SAME BOOK. 
 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but it just makes me so sad to see so many people "giving up" on this series because they think the characters have changed. And guess what? THEY HAVE. And they're meant too - it's called character development. 
 Chaol has every reason to be angry at Aelin in this book (just as she has every reason to be angry at him). They are not the same people they were in Crown of Midnight, SO much has happened since then. 
 Everything Chaol has ever done was for his king, Dorian, and so of course he would not trust Aelin when she almost killed him. And you know why she almost did? Because she endured a Valg in Heir of Fire, and she knows what that darkness feels like, and she knows first hand how much Dorian would hate being trapped in their - and she wanted to help her friend. But Chaol loves Dorian so much, and was basically blinded by his love for him that he couldn't imagine killing him. 
 Chaol has grown up his whole life believing magic is evil, bla bla bla, and of course he had mostly overcome this in Heir of Fire, but he still couldn't wholly trust Aelin in the beginning, because he was raised HIS WHOLE LIFE to trust the king and his people's ways (which of course now, because of character development, he doesn't). At the beginning he believes Aelin is trying to take over from Dorian (because she tried to kill him), and again, he doesn't trust her because he would do anything for his king. 
 BUT by the end of this book, the trio is (mostly) all patched up as friends. Chaol looks at Aelin's fire power and isn't disgusted. He regains her trust when he helps to save Lysandra, and tells her "Never again" would he let what happened to Nehemia happen to another one of her closest friends. And Aelin made it up to him by keeping her promise to save Dorian, and by not destroying the whole land with her powers. 
 Ever since Throne of Glass, I was a MAJOR Chaolena shipper, even after I finished reading Heir of Fire. Anyone who tried to tell me otherwise I would scream at basically - I was obsessed. However, after re-reading it, I saw so many things I'd missed out on before (such as her not really missing Chaol, her taking the ring off, still not forgiving him for Nehemia etc). 
 Looking back to that first book, Aelin has changed SO MUCH. She was always the Aelin we now know and love inside, but she just had to conquer all those bad memories and her traumatic past in order to move forward and accept her role as Queen of Terrasen. And everyone is embracing this change! GO AELIN! THE FIRE-BREATHING BITCH-QUEEN! But why can't we embrace Chaol's character development, too? 
 He has accepted magic. Accepted Dorian. Accepted Aelin. Has been working as a rebel. SAVING PAST MAGIC WIELDERS. Stood up for the people he loves. 
 When "Celaena" left for Wendlyn, I think they both new she wasn't coming back. 
 Now onto Rowan. I'm not going to lie, in Heir of Fire I kind of hated him to start with. The way he treated Aelin I found so unacceptable (and still do), and in no way I am trying to justify how he spoke to her to start with, but he has changed so much as well. 
 He has carried this burden around his whole life about his wife and child (I forget their names now - sorry!) and obviously didn't want to let anyone in, knowing what the pain of loosing them would feel like. And anyone saying it was instalove between him and Aelin is so, so wrong - they wanted to rip each others guts out throughout Heir of Fire (and still do sometimes, tbh). But they eventually became FRIENDS, and their relationship has been built gradually on this solid friendship. 
 We don't even know how this is going to turn out yet - with Rowan being immortal and stuff - but Aelin has someone in her life she can confide in, be herself with and not need to worry about being a "monster," or hiding anything from him. Finally someone she can trust 100%, share her deepest and darkest secrets with. Rowan has finally learned to live in the moment again, not to always be looking only towards the future. No matter what happens later in the series, I'm so glad they have each other at this point in time. 
 That's another thing - THERE'S STILL TWO MORE BOOKS. There is still so much to happen, and even MORE character development will take place. And I am so, SO excited to see it. 
 (sorry for the rant, I am sleep deprived and running solely on coffee from reading all night) (hide spoiler)]