Ashley Shea’s Reviews > Empire of Storms > Status Update

I feel like we spend too much time in TOD and there are a lot more people to keep track of here, so, man, has a lot happened in a short period of time and I'm constantly scared for Aelin, Dorian, Rowan, Manon, Elide. My gosh that's a lot of story lines! Dorian and Elide are certainly getting shafted as far as development, same with Aedion and Lysandra. But what does SJM do? Why, have some more characters, she says!

Besides the fear that Erawan is basically impossible to defeat, literally no one else stands a chance against the Aelin, Aedion, Lysandra team. So... I feel like this will just be a series of side quests that they'll easily conquer, but Erawan continues to be this insurmountable final boss. A bit formulaic, but the character interactions are great, the world-building is very engaging, the constant action is exciting!