Kingdom of Ash

It's over and if somebody could come pick me off of the floor that would be great, thanks.
A book that's almost 1000 pages doesn't scare me. The last book in a series that I'm completely obsessed with scares me. It COULD be too much. Or not enough even. But as per usual SJM did not disappoint.
First of all, let me say I'm glad this book was this big and not split into two books dragging it out because THAT would have upset me. It was exactly like how the endgame of a war should be. Battle here...battle there...battle...regroup. BOOM. WAR. END.
Second of all? Secondly? The character growth in this series in general is BANANAS. I'm looking at you, Dorian.

The women. THE WOMEN. Bad asses all the way. They are the illest of the ill.
Aelin- A Queen all the way. And until this book I forgot she was only 19. NINETEEN.
Lysandra- Literally clawed her way up from nothing. Abandoned as a child....to becoming essentially one of the Queen's right hand. I see you, boo.
Manon- I want to be her when I grow up. That is all.
The Thirteen- I can't even talk about this right now. Maybe not ever. Unless you want to see me ugly cry.
Elide- Human, abused, left crippled by her piece of shit uncle and still held her own against magical beings. Especially Lorcan. Ha!
Yrene-..... I WANT TO SAY SOME THINGS BUT IT'S HARD BECAUSE I'M TRYING NOT TO GIVE SPOILERS..but yea...definite bad ass.

I'd like to point out that being a bad ass (at least to me) isn't just being able to wield a sword or magic. Some of the aforementioned women are not warriors , per se. What makes them bad ass is how they stare down the crap life throws their way and even when they fall they still manage to get back up. That is all.

The men are no less bad ass. But the women stole my heart. Well..save for Rowan. I'd punch threw them all to get to Rowan LOL. At the beginning of the series I couldn't even stand Dorian or Chaol. But now..we homies.
Also..anyone not mentioned doesn't mean i didn't care about them or they didn't matter to the story...But as you can imagine seven books in ...there are a lot of characters. lol
SJM still managed to surprise me a few times with things I didn't see coming. So kudos for that.
I can't believe it's over. I'm still on the floor sobbing if anyone wants to help me up.