21/08/2016 - 27/08/2016 : Re-read 
 4 stars. 
 I truly believe that rereading books can make you understand them better. And that's what happened with this re-read. I even changed my rating. 
 I remembered this book as dragging... but now I really wonder why. All I can say is that the first time around, I flew through this one because QoS was coming out (or was out already) and I was so into this series that I wanted to read these books the moment they were published. Needless to say, I'm pretty sure I didn't give much thought to HoF and therefor didn't care much for it. 
 And Damn, that is the stupidest thing I could've done! 
 This book is amazing. Maas truly knows how to write about depression (as is shown in both of her current series) and I'm so sad that I didn't pay more attention to the details the first time I read this. So many stuff gets explained and characters get more backbone (Dorian baby, you became a true king in this book <3) and just transform in this book! 
 Amazing! 
 Also, I loved Manon's chapters as much as I did the first time. I just love evil witches and dragons/wyverns. How could I not love this storyline?! Nothing about this changed with that during this re-read lol. Still loved it and looked forward to her chapters! 
 My feelings for Rowan stayed the same too. Just like before, I started caring more and more for him, especially when finding out about his own past and his own demons that he's dealing with. I loved his friendship and mentor-apprentice relationship with Celaena very much! They were equally hard on one another and needed that from time to time so I understood what Sarah J Maas was trying to show us through their fighting and training: They both grew and healed and transformed because of each other and I found it beautiful and wonderful and amazing to read that! 
 One thing tho: (view spoiler)[ No matter what and despite everything I've just said, Rowan telling Celaena she should've died years ago truly didn't sit well with me. I know he later regrets it and says it mostly because he is in an equally dark place as Celaena is at that time, but still... (hide spoiler)] 
 I wish I could explain why I didn't give it 5 stars... but it's more of a feelingthing really. It's amazing, and it's an important book in the series, but it also felt like a big set up for the next installments in this series and I felt like there wasn't enough advancement on the true plot of this series (stopping Adarlan, freeing magic etc.) to give it 5 stars. 
 There is a lot of planning in HoF for what will happen in the future and I wished that some of those plans would've made more progress in this book or possibly be executed. If that would've happened, I propably would've given it 5 stars! 
 Somewhere in 2015: 
 3 stars.