And I was even more disappointed after reading king's cage, so I decided to leave a comment to see if any other agree with me because I'm heart broken for maven and think mare acted so weakly, cal did not deserve forgiveness so easily at least.
Ok so I didn't understand weather or not cal ACTUALLY gave up the throne and his power on norta's matters, but anyways he chose power over mare and mare JUST SLEPT WITH HIM AGAIN AND FORGOT EVERYTHING?!!!! I mean, that's pretty WEAK to let someone insult ur value like that even if it's ur lover. She f*cked up, and that's why I decided it was a waist of time to red about these two characters any more and just went to read the summary of the rest of the book after king's cage. Maven deserved better, even though he hurt mare alot, but he still loved mare more than cal, because he took the crown just so he had enough power to keep mare by his side, if only after his mother's death Victoria didn't mess him up anymore and instead gave his freedom back to be himself again and undid the effects of her mother again, I think maven was the best choice for mare instead of that weak cal whom noone even rates for him 🙃 Victoria, u disappointed me by weakening the female character and making her a sweet forgiving loving little girl in love with a princeling. That's how most of the readers disappoint me, they are effected by traditional female definitions and they don't know it, female's are always shown as sweet and forgiving and unable to kill those who wronged them and will be their downfall. The only female character who didn't disappoint me was Aelin from the Throne Of Glass series, and even there Sara J Mass gave her other series ACOTAR and it's male character more credit than she did TOG.
LADIES, PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one who has noticed this weakness in writing female characters and giving more credit to male characters.