And I can’t even imagine how many different points of view she’s going to give us in Kingdom of Ash, meaning that we won’t get to spend any significant amount of time with any of our favorite characters.īut a lot of this book was also spent on Chaol and Nesryn trying to convince the ruler of Antica, the khagan, on allying with them against Erawan. I think my two favorite characters from this book were definitely Yrene and Sartaq! I wish she had spent more pages on Nesryn/Sartaq, but sadly, she doesn’t. She eventually had a slow-building romance with Sartaq, and I was totally here for that. The second story is Nesryn’s, but fewer pages are spent on her than Chaol (which for the most part, I didn’t mind). Seeing how many pages she spent on the characters doing the same thing over and over again, you’d think she could have spent a few more pages on that. He stopped liking Aelin when he found out she was fae, I don’t think he ever dealt with that or how he felt towards the fae. Towards the end, he does deal with some of his problems (like his problem with Aelin), but even then, I feel like she re-hashed what his problems were, but he didn’t really work through them. Before this book, I didn’t really like Chaol, which is why I put off reading it for so long. It definitely is slow-moving, with a lot of the book spent on Chaol working with Yrene to get his legs functioning again, and they have a very slow-building romance throughout. I’m not into political fantasies but by the end of chapter two I was starting to get into this book. Upon arrival, they learn that Nesryn’s hometown of Rifthold has been ransacked by Perrington and his demons, which must mean that her siblings, nieces, parents, are all dead. Nesryn and Chaol have come to the continent of Antica to ask the Khagan Urus if he will ally with them in this war, and so Chaol can meet with the healers at Torre Cesne about his legs/spine.

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