In my review of Throne of Glass I described it as a hard core fairy tale. I have to remove the fairy tale part for Crown of Midnight, and just go straight hard core. This was a great follow up to the first book. I remain in awe of what a truly great storyteller SJM is. There was not one boring or slow part for me in this entire book. I was totally engaged from beginning to end. 
 This is shaping up to be one of my classics that I will definitely be reading again. 5 stars!!!