Tower of Dawn

#0.1-#0.5 The Assassin's Blade ★★★★★
#1 Throne of Glass ★★★★★
#2 Crown of Midnight ★★★★★
#3 Heir of Fire ★★★★★
#4 Queen of Shadows ★★★★★
#5 Empire of Storms ★★★★★
#6 Tower of Dawn ★★★★★

re-read update: April 2023

I still think this book is much longer than it needs to be, but I enjoyed it.

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original review: October 2018

Despite the fact that this series has become one of my favorite series of all time (literally, it's now tied with two other series for my #1 favorite spot), I was extremely apprehensive about picking up this installment! Not only is it so close to the end (just one book left!), but it takes place from Chaol's perspective in the Southern Continent, and if you've read my reviews of the other books in this series, you know I'm not his biggest fan.

“You must enter where you fear to tread.”

“Using the chair is not a punishment. It is not a prison. It never was. And I am as much of a man in that chair, or with that cane, as I am standing on my feet.”

disability rep.

It was like waking up or being born or falling out of the sky. It was an answer and a song, and she could not think or feel fast enough.

“I think she was a god... I never learned her name. She only left a note with two lines. ‘For wherever you need to go—and then some. The world needs more healers.'”

Assassin's Blade

Tower of Dawn

Empire of Storms

weep

Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books—reading.

This was not the end. This crack in him, this bottom, was not the end. He had one promise left.

is this book required reading for the series? YES.

Tower of Dawn

refuses