Paige’s Reviews > Empire of Storms > Status Update

I’m so excited for the next book, however, I think I’m going to take a small break and try to recover from all of this. The plot twists and ending are insane. I can’t wait to see what happens and how the ending will turn out. I really do hope and pray for Aelin, cause girl is going through jr right now and need all the support she can get. Gosh I can’t wait. I need more of King Rowan. Dorian is stepping up

Elide is pissed at him. He practically took Aelin away and gave her to Maeve while Elide watched helplessly. Although, Maeve did not get the keys, Manon has them who is taking an army of Crochans, her thirteen behind her all the way. Everyone must prepare for war, and the Cadre including Elide are on the hunt for Aelin, desperate to get her back. I don’t know if Aelin will ever be the same after this encounter.

Both Gavriel and Lorcan have be sworn off the blood oath which nearly broke them. I don’t really get it but whatever. I love how all of the happy couple we had are now destroyed. Lorcan betrayed Aelin, in order to save Elide, but still betrayed. He summoned Maeve to their exact location, knowing what the cost was. He thought he was enemies of Aelin, but after seeing what went down, he’s pretty damn broken.

I’m sure that killed her, but I’m happy that Rowan’s not too upset about, since he already suspected during the battle at Skulls Bay where she refused to harm him. THEY GOT MARRIED?!? Ugh I love that. He is the official King of Terresan and Aelin is his legal wife. The way he broke down at the end though was heartbreaking. I can only imagine how much pain he truly felt in that moment, knowing Aelin is gone.

Everything that got revealed is crazy. Maeve was making her plans millenniums ago. She knew Rowan and Aelin would be mates, but since Aelin wasn’t coming to Wendlyn, she made him get with Lyria, then killed her!!! To break Rowan he killed his supposed mate!!! Like what!?! But then Aelin came and they got their short happiness. It kills meter they could be truthful about the mating. That Aelin had to lie.

God damn bro I fucking hate Maeve. Why does she have to be so cruel. The whipping. The not counting. Cairn. Awful. She had to endure all of that, naked mind you, and still be just tortured. She has to wear an iron mask, be transported in an iron coffin, wear iron chains, only so that she cannot use her magic and escape. On the side note though, The thirteen are back!! I’m so excited. I love.

This is ending is just so insane I can’t even process it. Like Aelin knew that she and Rowan were mates and she used as much time as she could to spend it with Rowan knowing she could have a lifetime. She is willing to sacrifice herself for the lock even though she could have thousands of years with Rowan if only for a better world. It breaks my fucking heart so much. Like why?!?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!???!?!?!?!

LYSANDRA AS AELIN? Like that was the big plan all along. That’s why they spent so much time together it’s all so that Lysandra could master the art of Aelin. Even when Aelin was gone, she would be the queen that rules Terresan. Even have Rowan’s children someday. Like absolutely bat shit crazy. It just kills me how much Aelin had to think about her death. How much she had to plan to make sure everything worked

Holy fucking shit. This ending has wrecked me. Why did they do this to meeee!!! Poor poor Aelin. I feel for that girl so hard. What she has to endure? She knew she was going to die one way or another and has literally set everyone up but herself. She has called in favors from Ansel, Ilius, Galan, and anyone else she can think of.

Finally, Maeve’s armada is here and she is the Valg Queen. We don’t know for sure why she is here, only that she wants Aelin to surrender. Also, she has Elide and is about to kill her unless Aelin steps in. Did I forget to mention that she is the Valg Queen?!? Yeah, she has pretended all these years to be Fae in reality she is not. She is manipulative and only seeks the dark power of Erawan and the keys.