This books was tooooo long. It could have cut pages 300 - 650 and the story would have read the same.
 
 You are being dragged around to every single characters unrelated random side quest/plot which had nothing to do with the main plot line, they are also mostly unresolved. So I hope something happens with them in the next book because otherwise it just wasted my time.
 
 The epilogue leaves a big cliff-hanger leading into the next book making me want to continue the series. Although ...
 SPOILER MAJOR ~~~

Sarah J Maas does a good job at trying to get you to read all her books. I haven't read ACOTAR and wasn't really interested in reading it but after investigating. The name drop Rhysand has something to do with this series so to not feel like I'm missing information I'm going to have to read them. ~ SIGH ~ I see how this is inciting but it also forces the reader to read her other series and as someone who had no intention of reading it is frustrating

 
 
I do still like the main characters and the side characters continuing from the first book. Not so much this book.

Like Tharion, everything he was doing did not help the plot line at all and his motives don't make sense. Neither does his decision to join the Viper Queen at the end of the book he feels like a forced into the story and I feel like he is just another character that is useless to the main plot.

 
Overall will continue the series, the cliff-hanger got me interested. But I don't like this book. Though the main story line is good it had to many bad points not making me want to pick it up ~~ unrelated side quests, repetitive dialogue and scenes, characters that had no purpose. I might have liked it better if it was 300-400 pages shorter but that is not the reality here.