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 There was basically nothing I liked about the book after it ended. If a character started out to be fine, halfway through his/her story in the book I was fed up with the actions or what they said. And worst of all is Aelin. How a character can be so full of herself and thinking she is the cleverest, most beautiful, strongest, most perfect person in the world is beyond my understanding. I hate the way she threatens other protagonists if she doesn't get what she wants, that she somehow knows everybody else's plans before they are executed, or that she schemes behind the backs of her companions so they are worried or without any knowledge until Her Majesty feels the need to share her plots. 
 The other characters are either becoming degraded to worthless side characters, or they will agree with everything Aelin says, or they are just the love interest of somebody to make them care or switch sides. 
 And if the only way to make you plot work is with the help of deus ex machina, something clearly went wrong in the plotting of the story. There are almost 700 pages, they could be filled with useful plot and not just descriptions of ear lobes, eyes, faces or whatnot. 
 Apart from that, there are so many other things that don't make sense to me and with maybe a little more time, this book could have gotten at least 1 star more... 
 I am pretty disappointed and it is most definitely the worst in the series. I am actually really debating with myself if I should pick up the last book at all. I mean, in the end we all know what is going to happen... 
 What makes me actually angry at this book is the fact that some people pronounce my name incorrectly and then it sounds like Aelin. I don't want to my name to be used like this ever again, I don't want to be reminded of her in my real life.