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Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas

33 reviews

kaledragon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Medical trauma, Sexual content, and Trafficking

Minor: Racism and Sexism

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Ableism, Cursing, Medical content, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Sexual content, Misogyny, Torture, and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Child abuse, Medical trauma, Child death, Death of parent, Excrement, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Stalking, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Rape

mhairi_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Sarah J. Maas is in a league of her own. Honestly, I can’t even. She has such a talent and can make you fall in love with characters you entirely dismissed originally.

We seen Aelin really grow as a character in Heir of Fire and now she really does lead her court as the ‘fire breathing bitch queen’ she truly is. We really see a lot of character growth here and see Aelin stand on her own to feet and come into her own. Plus Mr Territorial Rowan - yes please!

Manon and Abraxos were definitely another two favourites of mine. Manon is another female character that gives of major badass vibes and Abraxos is just too much! I can’t wait to see how Manon and her Thirteen develop in the next book. I can definitely feel a massive shift happening here.

Elide, Lorcan and Lysandra are three more characters I’ve got my eye on moving forward. Elide, I think has the potential to bring some badass female energy to her story, Lorcan could go either way here but Lysandra surprised me. I’m interested to see where these three come into their own moving forward.

Queen of Shadows wraps up the start of this series and it’s almost as if we have a totally new hoard of characters to follow moving on. But the finale!! Give me more - right now! I love how everything is lining up for the no doubt, insane battle that we’re encroaching on. A battle of epic proportions that will decide the fate of all the characters we have come to hold so dear.x

This book is filled with plot points. We see many plot twists, epic battles and many new character introduced who become pivotal to the rest of the story. This is definitely climbing the ranks for me. I can’t wait to see where Maas takes this in the next instalment of the ToG series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Violence, War, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Genocide, and Stalking

Minor: Cannibalism, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Bullying, Torture, and Vomit

kinsportch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, Violence, War, Domestic abuse, Blood, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Slavery, and Genocide

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Cursing, Miscarriage, Child death, Death of parent, and Sexual content

rakizaka's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Grief, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Minor: Sexual content

charhollyx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

“I feel as though I’ve looking for this place my entire life.”

This is by FAR the easiest 5 star I have given to a book. From start to finish, each quote, each twist in the story, each character introduction and arc, each new location, each plot development… perfection.

Queen Of Shadows had me UNDERSTANDING why this series truly has so much hype, because this is the first series I have ever ranked higher than ACOTAR, frankly.

Chaol’s character development, Dorian’s pain, Aelin becoming the queen she is, LYSANDRA?!?! Manon and her growing heart, my heart broke for Kaltain and frankly, the king? 

SJM is a genius, frankly. The way she can make you love a hated character, hate a character you loved, insert all those hints about Aelin setting up Aedion’s escape and the kings death… I will buy ANYTHING she ever writes from now on🤍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Gore, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cannibalism, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Stalking, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Vomit, Excrement, and War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

amandak's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Physical abuse, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Trafficking, and War

Minor: Vomit

andrikkk's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Celaena became the QUEEN of Mary Sues since Heir of Fire, but while the characters became more plain and boring, this book was so damn entertaining.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual content

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Oh. My. God. The build up in this book makes it worth it’s medium pace. And thank got Kaltain was used for more than a romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Slavery, Torture, Violence, War, and Vomit

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual violence