Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)

by Sarah J. Maas

[Angie]

My ratings for this series have been steadily dropping. It's super unfortunate, because I was beyond excited to get into the meat of the story after finishing the novellas. Heir of Fire was just a long bore. It's one of those points in a long plot where the main character is suddenly shipped away from all of the action, lots of stuff happens while they're away, then they return and have no clue what's going on. I hate that. Celaena is across the sea supposedly on a mission for the king, but she's looking for her Fae family. Meanwhile the rest of the world is falling apart.

Heir of Fire started off fine. I was eager to see how Celaena would find the Fae, and what she would learn from them. But the more time she spent there, the more bored I became. For being so badass at everything else, she certainly sucks at magic. It doesn't help that her teacher, Rowan, has a crappy method. You know, the one where they don't actually tell you how to do anything? They just poke, prod, and generally piss you off until you explode and do what they want you to do on accident. Yep, that's the way. And we all know Celaena has a temper.

So, while Celaena is kind of learning how to do magic, Heir of Fire also jumps between a few other POVs. None of which I cared about at all. Chaol and Dorian are so dull without her. Like, what is their point?! Well, Chaol is actually doing stuff. I just didn't care. But Dorian? I don't even know. I was so not into his little spoiler. It felt so forced and like it was there to give him something to do, when he should have been doing what Celaena is doing: practicing magical control! Then there's these witches preparing for The War Games, and I was so beyond not caring, that I started to skim these parts.

Heir of Fire was just disappointing. Things started to get good and interesting at the end because that king is an evil bastard, but as a whole, I was bored. A lot of what I was reading didn't even stick with me, because I simply didn't care. This is not the series I was expecting from the beginning.

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