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Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
4.0

"He had made one promise. He had not broken it yet. To save them. His friend, his kingdom. He still had that. Even here at the bottom of this dark hell, he still had that.

After the castle came down in Rithfold, Chaol and Nesryn have sailed to Antica to try to rally more allies for Aelin and Dorian, and to seek the legendary healers to try to get Chaol walking again. But Chaol is broken, beyond just his physical limitations and Nesryn is the windseeker, she was not meant to be caged. Their paths end up taking them down different directions than they had expected, but they know Antica is there only hope.

I didn't expect to like this book. I liked Chaol in the first couple books, and in fact was not a huge fan of Rowan to begin with, but then Chaol turned into a mopey man and I always found Nesryn a little boring. However, I think what Maas did with Chaols story was amazing. Sure he still moped, but he was broken, and the story was a tale of him repairing himself. I still find Nesryn a tad boring, but even her story got good towards the end. A lot of things were answered in this book, so while it is a companion novel, I'd say reading it is extremely important to he overall story