And so comes the end of a life-changing journey. Forever grateful to Sarah for sharing it with us.
Tag: kingdom of ash
All these years of cracking jokes at the nameless king only to discover it had a purpose all along…
SJM clearly did not balk from the phrase “did not balk”
This book is giving me so many art ideasssss
It’s here! What an absolute beast of a book that I can’t wait to dive into
The full sleeve art for the Barnes & Noble edition of Kingdom of Ash!
I was honored to be involved in the final installment, both Sarah and the series definitely shaped my life a little bit. Hope you all enjoy the final book!
My least favorite Kingdom of Ash Comment is the one that goes “well she better kill someone at the end otherwise it’s predictable and the stakes aren’t high.”
No
Nope
Like let me have my happiness. Let my babies have survived all that trauma to come out on the other side of this ALIVE. let their fight not be in vain.
Also you know who is going to die?? Like hundreds of soldiers on either side. Theres your reality and high stakes. Anyways.
The idea that a story needs to end painfully in some way in order to be valid or realistic or literary is so bleak and abhorrent to me. It’s also really heavily based in the idea that literary fic, aka “well written books” are ones that explore darkness and pain and end in sadness. It’s this idea that the exploration of joy and happiness and love is not a complex or worthwhile literary task. It’s exactly the same argument people level at romance authors and readers. “Don’t you want it to be realistic?”
Why can’t happiness be realistic? Why are all your versions of reality marred by death? Why can’t a series like Throne of Glass, which is built on the premise of hope in the worst of times, end happily with all the characters alive? Why do we need there to be more pain after Sarah has given us an examination of pain and trauma from every possible angle? Why can we just not accept hope and joy and life?
Joy and hope and love are complex, important emotions that are terribly difficult to write about. I want an ending full of happiness. And I’m not sorry for that.
This ! ! !
If you had asked me even a few months ago, I would have said that I wanted SJM to kill someone important off in the finale to make it more ~dramatic~. But then I experienced a meaningful death in the family for the first time, and my view on character deaths has completely changed. I don’t want anyone to die just for the sake of dying. I don’t want deaths to become so frequent and expected that the readers are desensitized. I don’t want the characters to lose someone close to them, because I know what it feels like now and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone just for the sake of “realism”. More than ever, I need a story where characters get their happy ending, because there’s enough death to deal with in our lives already.
can you guys pretty please tag the koa quotes as spoilers?????
“Let’s begin.”
Duva says this when she is about to put the ring on Yrene’s finger and turn her into a Valg.
Maeve says this at the end of the last chapter to Aelin.
I’m not saying that Maeve is going to turn Aelin Valg, but that’s exactly what I’m saying.
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