Ugh, I feel so let down. After a weak start to the series, the second book won me over to keep going. At the end of the book, Celaena set out for Wendlyn, and it was my hope that the story would open up, to include world-building elements. Alas, it was not for me. Celaena spends all book in training with the fae Prince Rowan to wake her magic and fae heritage. I found this ridiculously boring. As Rowan is super-brooding, and she's beating herself up because of events in book 2, it was emo and emo, with bouts of violence, and the strong smell of an upcoming love triangle, my least favorite YA fiction trope.

The Rifthold PoVs, mostly Dorian and Chaol were really not that much more interesting. It just felt like very very little was actually happening. The only PoV I actually enjoyed was Manon, a new character. This Ironteeth witch is the heir of the Blackbeak witches, and her struggle for power among the witches and her training of her wyvern Abraxos were the sole highlight in this boring slog of a book.

It's probably me and not the series, which seems beloved by many. But I am done with Throne of Glass for sure. By the end of Heir of Fire I fully realized that I do not give a damn about any of the main characters. Life's too short for mediocre books.