Review: Empire of Storms

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I originally gave this 4 stars, but I'm bumping it down after sleeping on it (literally). I used to love this series so much, but this book just grated on me too much. Don't get me wrong, there are still a lot of moments and characters I loved, but I think I have slowed down enough to realize how bad the writing really is. Not only the sentence constructions and all that (see my review of ACOWAR, lol), but I feel like the plot has just gotten SO convoluted. I think I was fine with it right up until the ending, where it just felt like so many things were haphazardly thrown together, there were miraculous saves and revelations right til the end (I'm counting Aelin's machinations here, even though she technically wasn't saved), couples were split up until they were set up to conveniently be together for book 6, etc. I might have to start turning off my brain for the rest of this series like I did for The Selection -_-

Of course, I will continue to #hateread this series...because for some reason I am still excited about every new SJM book??

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