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Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

96 reviews

lorelai's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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: Complicated

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mcpopish's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring 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: Complicated

I put this book off for a while, too scared of what I thought would happen to take the plunge. I’m a little sad I waited so long.

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lavendar's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book is an emotional marathon but one that is absolutely worth it, especially for the

happy

ending.
It manages to connect every thread (including the seemingly tiny ones you might not have even noticed) going all the way from the shorts in the Assassin’s Blade prequels and continuing through each book in the series; closing every loose end & answering every question, giving every crossover, cameo, interaction, character, joke, fan favorite, and wish, its moment in the sun. Weaving together into a beautiful tapestry with branches you can see going out into their futures.
It will keep you on your toes, breaking your heart, and then remake it with your day. Be ready to cry, and scream, and have your jaw drop with its twists. And be ready to smile, laugh, and have new inspirational phrases.
It is a finale worthy of the entire series.
And definitely worth the read as one of the best (and most emotional rollercoasters) of the books!

Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

Minor: Animal death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Blood, Pregnancy

Generally speaking, be prepared for this book to give you all of the feelings! Maas does not hold back, for better or for worse. If you want to know in advance, whether it be reassurance or warning (or further information for content warnings & context, here is the information I wanted below). However, some of these have MAJOR SPOILERS so, do NOT read any further if you do not want them & read at your own risk & guidelines! So last chance: SPOILERS BELOW DO NOT READ YOU'VE BEEN WARNED! Quick questions: —Does it have a happy ending?

Yes.

—Do Evangeline & Fleetfoot stay safe?

Yes.

—Does anyone get severely injured? If so, who?

SPOILERS BELOW DO NOT READ YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!! Yes. Nearly every character has a nearly fatal injury, primarily: Lorcan, Fenrys, Abraxos, Lysandra, Aedion, Dorian, and Aelin. Falkan & Borte also have an unexplained moment. SPOILERS ABOVE DO NOT READ YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!

—Do any good characters die? If so, who?

SPOILERS BELOW DO NOT READ YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!! The Thirteen & their Wyverns (except for Manon & Abraxos), Gavriel the lion, Murtaugh Allsbrook (Ren’s grandfather), Connall (Fenrys’s brother), Elena (disappears for good), The King has one last visit, Mala leaves for good, and Aelin (but she comes back). SPOILERS ABOVE DO NOT READ YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!

—Do any bad characters die? If so, who?

SPOILERS BELOW DO NOT READ YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!! Cairn, Maeve, Erawan, The Blackbeak Matron, The Yellowlegs Matron, Iskra Yellowlegs & her Wyvern, and Uncle Vernon (presumed dead). SPOILERS ABOVE DO NOT READ YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!

—Pregnancy tag:

There is a pregnancy warning as a main character is pregnant. Neither baby nor mother are harmed, though it is a concern brought up a few times.

—Suicidal thoughts tag context:

Characters have to self-sacrifice to save lives. There are debates over who this should be. There is also a continuing feeling of “doomed fate” that characters are “tired of fighting” and moments of “giving up”. This is furthered by trauma, PTSD, and suffering leading characters to “want to die” or more so not “want to live” with it. And reckless behaviors that unintentionally lead them close to death. — There are also minor self-harming behaviors such as digging fingers into palms, or unintentional habits of anxiety, or loss of power control.

—Sexual content tag:

This book does contain sex scenes, they are not as fade to black as that in Crown of Midnight, but remain less explicit and more eluded/short in comparison to Empire of Storms.

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

I wanted to read this book as before this series, I had never read any of Sarah J. Maas’s work and I was so excited and interested to see what the hype was about. I was kindly gifted this series and A Court of Thorns and Roses by my parents. So, I thought I would start at the beginning. I’ve been really enjoying this series and this final book on the series has had me on edge since the second book. This book and journey were so worth it.

This book is about Aelin, and she has risked everything to save her people, but at a tremendous cost. She is locked with an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures month of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day. With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defence to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they’ve gathered to battle Erawan’s hordes might not be enough to save them. Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon and Dorian are forced to forget their own paths to meet their fates. Hanging in the balance is any hope of salvation and a better world. And across the sea, his companions unwavering besides him, Rowan hunts to fund his captured wife and queen before she is lost to him forever. As the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight, if they are to have a chance at the future.

Okay, this book – THIS BOOK. I didn’t want it to end. I love the characters; I loved the storyline and the action. I still love Aelin, I love how strong and how much of a leader she became. I just wanted her to succeed so much and the fact that she had becoming so successful made me want to cry. I love the multiple POVs during this book and it made the storyline more interesting. I wanted the whole series from Rowan’s point of view. I just love that Rowan’s like you’re not going to die, and we will do whatever you want besides sacrificing yourself. I love how Dorian grew up so much during this, compared to the first book, it was like watching a TV from series 1 after you’ve just finished the newest series and being like “oh, they look like a baby.” My favourite chapters were the reunions between our characters. Especially with Yrene and Aelin that didn’t know they were going to reunite and then they did and recognizes each other instantly. Then Aelin and Dorian reunited and then Aelin and Aedion. I loved all of the reunions before the massive battle.

I usually struggle with war books because usually there is a lot of build-ups and a lot of camping and talk and no action. But this book even with the build-up and the camping, something was always being discovered, someone was always wanting to help, someone was willing to sacrifice themselves that I was so stressed for all the characters until the end of the book.

I wanted this book to go on forever and forever. I wanted to see Aelin take court and to do it with power. I wanted to see Yrene and Chaol becoming parents and having a whole bundle of children and Chaol reuniting with his mother. I wanted to see Aelin and Rowan becoming parents and having a bundle of children as well. I wanted to see Aedion and Lysandra’s wedding and to see if Dorian and Manon ever got engaged or married. I just wanted another book where they all get a happy ending with no conflict whatsoever.

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g_monaghan's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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: No

I am an empty shell, a husk, a carved out bit of nothingness after the conclusion of this series. 5 stars.

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khymihr's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous medium-paced

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starfire29's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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jls6283's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional 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

I cried for the entire last 20% of this book… It has been a long time since a book/series had that much of an emotional impact on me!

The way it just all comes together in this finale. 😭 I too am sad to say goodbye to these friends ❤️

SJM does a marvelous job of tying in so many characters and planning out so many crazy tiny details and plot lines.

Some things I would’ve liked to have seen were endings for Nox & Dorian’s mother & brother. I found the whole interaction with the gods to be a little underwhelming, but perhaps that was the point? That we can hope for divine intervention, but ultimately must take our own fate into our own hands?

Despite all this I still give 5 stars because I honestly didn’t think I could care about these characters so much. I remember when Manon and the witches were introduced and I literally kept thinking “I don’t care about these characters at all, get me back to the main people!”

But let me tell you how much I BAWLED at the 13’s sacrifice 😭

Manon > Aelin to be honest 😅

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literarymary95's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

I really enjoyed the ending of this book. I think it's a bit long and could have been a little bit shorter as small pieces of it seemed repetitive simply because it picks up another character's POV and does a little bit of backtracking.
Otherwise, I think this ended the series beautifully as I thought 6 years or so ago when I first read it.

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cayliehausman's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Wow!!! What a conclusion to this series. I really loved how fast this book felt compared to the others, and I think the backstory was absolutely worth it to really feel the emotions of this book.

I wish we would’ve gotten a little bit more of their future than we did…and I would’ve loved to have seen more of a resolve in Manon and Dorian’s relationship (I know she would outlive him but still!!). But overall I love how Aelin really finds her way through the trauma by the end and is able to even overtake Maeve’s vision and start to destroy her within it.

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