Synopsis from Amazon - After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her Opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations. she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilarating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best. Then one of the other contestants turns up dead.... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.
Ideas Before Reading
I'm not a huge fantasy book lover. However, there are some exceptions to that. So after hearing about the reviews and looking into the book I'm really curious about this book. I tend to go into it with an open mind. It sounds really interesting with assassins aspect. Again it is an author I never read before so I'm hoping for the best. I also chose to get this book now because Amazon had the eBook for $2.99 and I figured why not try it, and here we are.
(11/14/2018)
*****SPOILERS BELOW*****
First Half of Throne of Glass
Before I go into what has been happening so far in the book let me just say WOW! I didn't think this book would really interest me as much as it did. I wanted to give this book a chance because it is so popular, the reviews are either they love it or hate it, and then there is the plain fact that I've never read a Maas book so I wasn't sure how I would feel about the writing style. That all being said I LOVE THIS BOOK! I'm completely obsessed with the characters and the book overall. When I've heard about these books before I heard a lot about Dorian but so far that is the only character that I've heard about and also read about so far. In most videos or comments about the book I haven't heard much about Chaol, Nehemia, or Celaena so it makes me wonder what happens with these three people throughout the story. I really love these four characters, it is amazing character development between everyone.
Even though I really love the story and everything going on right now in the book I am starting to get kind of confused. The story started is pretty much just about Celaena and her journey throughout the competition to be the King's Assassin. That story alone I felt like was really interesting because you had her being escorted everywhere, because who would want to leave an assassin alone to wonder throughout the castle! But the story is still predominantly about that but now the focus is starting to shift. Celaena just met the very first queen of Adarlan and she basically is telling her what she needs to do, but not really a why she needs to do it and there is a whole bunch of craziness going on with this meeting alone because this queen has been dead for centuries. So the story is getting really twisty and a little bit hard to follow. Even though it is a little bit difficult to follow I'm still enjoying the characters and pushing through the story because I'm really interested in seeing what all happens. It'll be interesting to see what happens with these characters. I can't wait to finish the story.
(11/27/2018)
Thoughts After the End
So I stayed up all night and finished this book last night. I was sucked into the chaos of Celaena's life while she was finishing the challenges. Let me just say this I never liked Kaltain! She was mean and it was all over a boy. This is one thing I absolutely hate is when a girl is being so manipulative because of a boy. So what if Dorian is a prince and a whole catch. I feel as though she really got what she deserved in the end of the book. Now Celaena broke my heart when she had to tell Dorian what's what because of her new position with the king. But I was still sad about the situation. But does that mean Chaol will finally grow something and go after her?! I can't wait to see what happens in the next book! I'm seriously hooked! I loved the way the story was developed and the characters. I just loved it overall. There were moments where I was seriously confused and annoyed with the book though. I think there was just so much just bunched together and it became tangled here and there but overall I still felt like it was still a really good book.
(11/29/2018)
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