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Despite my hesitation, I was still intrigued at the prospect of a sequel. When I was debating reading A Torch Against the Night anyway, a Barnes & Noble employee told me, "I love that series. That world is my favorite!" Deciding it was worth a try, I purchased the novel. It did not disappoint.
Not to make a bad pun, but this was easily one of the most magical experiences of my life. It baffles me that J.K. Rowling once sat down to write a book, and from her mind came this beautiful world that has turned into reality for so many. She created a whole universe in her head; and so many people went to such great lengths to replicate her imagination and make her ideas real and tangible.
*Do NOT read if you have not read any of the other Throne of Glass novels.*
Empire of Storms begins on a plot built on subtlety, a minefield of politics, and characters struggling to find their way back to each other, to dig themselves out of hellhole after hellhole, in a world that threatens to cleave them apart daily. Underneath each page is a hint of violence, each word carrying a promise of bloodshed in the near future, a byproduct of a book which has a heroine that is both an assassin and a queen.
