To be Manon Blackbeak from Sarah J. Maas’s renowned best selling series, Throne of Glass would be quite the personal growth journey. Manon had endured and faced many challenges throughout her entire existence (well over 100 years old). These challenges had put her into situations in which she had to make sacrifices and carry a team of other witches through countless battles.
While learning how to use her magic and train for battle, she had surpressed an overwhleming amount of angst towards her family members when secrets about her heritage had been exposed. These secrets had ripped through her current being and led her through a torrent of emotions. Manon had to accept her newly discovered heritage (for her) and had to experience an extremely destructive ego death, in order to understand who she truly was.
She later became a woman who now cultivated friendships with others who had been outside of her Ironteeth clan and demonstrated ruthless loyalty towards them. The paradoxical lifestyle of her family had led her to openly see the immoral practices and traditions that they were incorporating themselves into. Manon is one of Sarah J Maas’s female main characters that many fans and readers could resonate with, as her story has been told in such a realistically compelling way. I would love to live a fantasy life through Manon Crochan-Blackbeak’s lens and endure every hardship, heartbreak, celebration, forged alliance and journey encountered.
“But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.” – Manon Blackbeak – Sarah J. Mass, Queen of Shadows
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