Honestly? Honestly? I stopped 70% of the way in. I can't handle it anymore. I thought Chaolena was endgame, that was it for me. But suddenly this big badass warrior Rowan comes in, and it's like Maas changed her mind and hastily changed Aelin's love interest. 
 Chaol is so real. Chaol was it for me. CoM embodied everything, and Chaolena- the relationship was real. Rowan and Aelin, on the other hand, don't even have a proper ship name and their relationship feels impure and forced. He literally hated her the last book; he treated her like trash. Now, Maas thinks it's okay to suddenly make them fall in love. Whoop-de-doo. 
 That's the thing with this series. Aelin/Celaena literally has a new love interest every single new book. Sam, then Dorian, then Chaol, now Rowan. Settle down. Chill. 
 I feel like Sorscha and Nesryn- they're just pieces of crap hastily thrown in by Maas without a second thought. You can actually taste the fake and crappily put together relationship they have with Chaol and Dorian. Sorscha was a healer; she tended to Dorian, is a spy, falls in love with him, they have sex and stuff, and then she dies a few seventy pages later? And here it is with Nesryn. We know nothing about her; yet somehow she ends up in Chaol's small army. And of course she's his right hand woman. And, being that they're so close in work, they've got to fall in love, right? Forget everything about CoM? 
 I just hated how Aelin had so many love interests in the span of the series I've read so far and manages to get over every. Single. One. Of. Them. Except probably Sam. 
 This could have went a lot better if Maas didn't go ruining the characters and the plot. Maas makes Chaol into a whiny, groveling pet in this book. He was so real, so intimate. Then, Rowan came and Maas decided to throw him under the bus. There are so many plotholes and character destructions, I'm appalled. That's why I couldn't finish this. However, if you hated Chaolena and love intimate, shirtless, do-nothing-wrong possessive males that have a fake relationship with the protagonist, I recommend you read this.