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The reviews and ratings from my GR friends on this book are very mixed and I can easily see why after finishing this entertaining but disappointingly tame and romance-y young adult fantasy. Throne of Glass is like Shadow and Bone round two. This book is to the fantasy genre what Twilight is to vampires; though I have to stress that it is a fast-paced, compelling read and Maas does tame fantasy as well as it can be done. Despite my frequent eyerolls and disappointment at the romantic turn the story took, the pages seemed to fly by.
I tend to read several books at once; I’ll spend a few chapters with one and then mix it up by moving on to another, but Throne of Glass managed to hold my attention from start to finish with no time for interference from another book. This, in itself, was quite an achievement. Celaena Sardothien is the star of this show. A former assassin turned prisoner, she spends every day in the salt mines prison of Endovier.
Having given up on hoping for freedom, she wishes only for death. That is, until one day The Crown Prince Dorian and his Captain of the Guard Chaol arrive with a proposition for her – fight in a competition, win, become the King’s Champion for four years, and finally earn her freedom.
It’s an offer Celaena can’t refuse. But, of course, things aren’t that simple. Some dark evil is at work inside the King’s castle; something that is killing off the competitors one by one. Plus, there’s the handsome Prince and moody Captain to deal with too. I don’t think Celaena is in the King’s palace for a day before she starts obsessing over her looks, her new dresses and whether or not either or both of the aforementioned men find her attractive.
She still manages to have more badassery than Alina in Shadow and Bone and the book is, in my opinion, nowhere near as boring as Grave Mercy. I like that she’s “feminine” whatever you want to take that to mean as well as a brutal killer, but there’s only so much high school changing rooms behaviour I can take.
I think there’s an excellent quote, a question that Celaena wonders to herself, that basically sums up what was running through my head for a lot of this novel: “How had she gone from the most feared prisoner in Endovier to this sappy mess? But, that being said, I really enjoyed the banter between her and Chaol. And Dorian wasn’t bad either.
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again for the benefit of this review: I actually don’t mind love triangles when they’re convincing and both candidates for the MC’s heart are on equal footing so there’s some tension over who they’re going to end up with. Though I may have to do all kinds of evil things – like Ms Maas, you’ve been warned. So, yes, I will be reading Crown of Midnight , god help me. I’m hoping it will please me more than the sequel to Shadow and Bone did, but the ending of this does make me think the second book could have more action and nastiness yes!
I think you can enjoy this book if you go into it knowing exactly what you’re letting yourself in for. It isn’t high fantasy.
It isn’t mind-blowing. View all 52 comments. I really enjoyed this book. The characters were well formed and excellently developed. There are recognisable and enjoyable twist on the classic Cinderella. Example Celaena Sardothien’s fairy godmother is a ghost of an ancient warrior queen.
There are also slight touches such as Celaena has an innate charm with animals. I was also very impressed with the pacing and evolution of the story.
Honestly the pages just seem to fly by. Just because Celaena was the greatest of assassins after being in I really enjoyed this book. Just because Celaena was the greatest of assassins after being in a death camp for over a year she need to capture her old form, but her skills are still intact. Also I like the way the author plays with her feeling even though she is an assassin she is still very young and prone to her feeling and ego getting hurt. The book does leave a lot of questions many of which are for the second novel, but as much as I hate prequels I will have to read the back up stories on the kindle version.
I cannot wait for the next book and am really looking forward to what is going to happen next. Like I said earlier this book was more about Celaena recapturing her old form and claiming a position of power, also setting up her side cast, I am expecting a lot more action in the next book after all the training in this book.
I hateread a chapter from book five of this series with a friend. And I’m going to register my opinion that while it may have slightly improved in character development or worldbuilding or etc etc etc – I wouldn’t know – it is, objectively, just as horribly written as this book. And that’s the tea. Okay, yeah, the plot is kind of boring and there I hateread a chapter from book five of this series with a friend. Okay, yeah, the plot is kind of boring and there are a lot of opportunities for deception and badassery that are not taken.
I take full offense at badassery being missed. But seriously, guys, this book suffers from fucking terrible character work. Thesis Statement: Celaena is a badly written character. She is arrogant as hell, really petty, and somewhat obsessed with her own appearance. And that’s not even the problem – a horribly unlikable assassin as a lead character could be amazing. But Celaena does not have enough character depth for her unlikability to be tolerable.
Her alleged tragic past? Pretty much not represented on page. Frankly, tragic pasts need a lot of fleshing out to be compelling and believable, and I don’t even think Celaena’s trauma is acknowledged once in this book – come on, at least do the bare minimum?
Listen, okay, you want to get me started on my 1 pet peeve in YA for all eternity? Heroines that have less sense than the audience. I like my heroines to be one step ahead of me, or at my level. Let’s talk about the fact that Celaena is just I am so disappointed by all this character could have been and all this character is not.
Again, that could be super enjoyable to read about! I’d LOVE a book about a slightly unbalanced girl who murders people with a smile on her face. This could be Celaena if she were cleverer and a bit – okay, a lot – more fleshed out.
But she’s just an unbelievable, annoying heroine. And Jesus, I am so annoyed by the love triangle. Dorian is just flat as hell and has no character. Chaol is Chaol is an overprotective ass. I can’t believe he’s supposed to be the good romantic interest compared to Rowan.
Jesus, how bad is Rowan? What is happening in this damn series?? And yeah, I forgot just how much I hated it until the hateread, but the writing style of this book is worse than amateur.
It is so tedious, it is so typical, and it is so overdramatic. I take full issue with both overuse of exclamation points and lack of ability to truly get into a character’s head. I have made my decision and I am not continuing. Blog Goodreads Twitter Youtube View all 21 comments. Instagram Twitter Facebook Amazon Pinterest Edit: Lost a few friends over this book, so on it goes to the books-that-made-me-lose-friends shelf , where it can party with my feminism and anti-Trump reads.
Maas is basically the Taylor Swift of books: they are both among the most well known if not THE most well known in the genres they create work for, and have cultish fan bases that believe they can do no wrong. And both, in my opinion, are ove Instagram Twitter Facebook Amazon Pinterest Edit: Lost a few friends over this book, so on it goes to the books-that-made-me-lose-friends shelf , where it can party with my feminism and anti-Trump reads.
And both, in my opinion, are over-hyped. I hated it, and wrote a scathing one-star review of it filled with swear words and vitriol.
I originally planned to read and review the entire series, but the first book put me off so much that I never attempted the series again – until now. I had so many people ask me to review this book series that I decided I might as well give it another shot. I try to keep an open mind when I review books, and even though I’m very critical and snarky, I try to be fair as well.
Although honestly? I didn’t hate it as much this second time around. I still didn’t like it and the hype escapes me , but I’ve read so much worse. Also, speaking of bodice-rippers, I loved that Celaena was reading some in her room, cheesy prose and all. Based on the writing, it totally sounded like a Johanna Lindsey viking novel. So, let’s talk about where this book went wrong. Celaena is a terrible heroine. She reads like the self-insertion character in a fanfic.
She has all the boys, all the powers, all the talents – and none of the characterization or skills to back it up. It got to the point where I would roll my eyes every time she admired herself in the mirror and listed off her features or humble-bragged in the narrative about how beautiful she used to be until she wasted away in the stupid salt mines.
When she’s not doing it, the two love interests are doing it for her, either while pining outside her window seriously , pining over her playing the piano like Christian Grey did while watching from a shadowed corridor SERIOUSLY , or pining over her looking up all tragically at the sky while being carted away to her “terrible” fate OMG.
What makes this even more irritating is that she is supposed to be a strong female protagonist, and yet she is basically the total opposite. Not only is she incredibly vain and arrogant, she’s also a total jerk. She insults everyone around her, especially the people she shouldn’t be insulting read: the people who are in charge of her fate and could send her straight back to those salt mines with a flick of their wrists and other women.
Celaena loves to slut-shame other women, especially in the beginning. I mean, how can you like a heroine who says stuff like this? They’re so desperate for the attention of men that they’d willingly betray and harm members of their own sex.
And we claim men cannot think with their brains! At least men are direct about it” And then there’s the fact that she doesn’t really live up to the “assassin” part of her attributes until the very, very, very last possible moment of the book.
People sneak up on her all the time, and she isn’t a light sleeper because on several occasions she wakes up, surprised to see someone standing over her. And then. There’s this line: “Candy! Also, one of the Tests they did shortly before this one involved poison. So obviously, someone wants her dead and even more obviously, there is poison lying about somewhere on the premises that someone could probably steal if they didn’t already steal some from the competition.
And it never once crosses her mind that someone might have dropped off a batch of poisoned candy to her bedroom knowing her insatiable lust for sugar. Crosses her mind. I face-desked pretty hard at that.
How do you come back from that? Reason 2: It’s boring and slow AF. This book is very back-heavy. Not much happens until the end of the book. But no, these scenes are vastly overshadowed by much more important scenes. Like Celaena going to the library.
Celaena debating about how much sugar to add to her oatmeal. And Celaena looking into a mirror and admiring her fiftieth sparkly, low-cut dress. I liked the scene with the poisons. It kind of reminded me of that scene in Harry Potter, when Harry has to go through all of those trials before he faces down Voldemort that, and the flying keys. The Tests had the potential to be so much MORE, and it was so frustrating to read about all this pointless stuff when what I wanted was action, adventure, and showmanship.
Rule 3: Book-pandering. Liking books is not a personality trait, please, and thank you. There’s nothing wrong with writing a character who reads, but when it’s their only hobby and seems like it’s just an excuse to give people quotes to make them go, “OMG! SQUEE” it feels cheap. That’s just my personal opinion, but it bothers me a lot, so I’m mentioning it. Chaol and Dorian were fine. Dorian is the typical womanizing bad-boy rich-boy stereotype, and I didn’t care for him much at all, especially what with his “you’re not like other women” attraction to Celaena.
Boy, bye. Nehemia was honestly my favorite character in here. She’s powerful, cool, mysterious, intelligent, and courtly – basically everything Celaena was not.
I also think it’s ironic that Nehemia and Celaena had much more chemistry than Dorian and Choal did with Celaena combined. I would have totally shipped them. They were cute together. Celaena was almost tolerable when she was with Nehemia. I honestly felt bad for Kaltain – probably because it felt like we were supposed to hate her. She was honestly one of the more tragic characters in here, and her narrative ARC reminded me a little of Anne Boleyn’s.
I can’t really remember why I hated this book so much when I first read it. Maybe because I went in expecting more, whereas this time I knew what to expect? Or maybe because I’ve read several particularly awful books this year that made this one seem better by comparison? I don’t know. But this time I actually found some redeeming facets of the narrative that made me sigh and go, “Well, I suppose it could have been worse – and I did like this thing and that thing, so there. Condescending comments aside, I did actually “like” the book more this second time around, although I still think it’s pretty bad although I’ll be trying to give the other books in the series a shot because damn that curiosity.
Lastly, since this book has so many passionate fans, I would like to issue a caveat: If you leave me rude comments, I am going to delete these comments and block you. It is not personal and it does not mean that I hate you, or harbor any ill-will towards you. I just have zero interest in interacting with people who don’t distinguish between criticism of a book and ad hominem attacks of an individual. Part of the reason I deleted all my reviews back in was because I was getting a lot of nasty comments on about five reviews and I made the novice mistake of arguing back with them and giving them that satisfaction of a response.
I’ve grown up a lot since I first started using this site and now have little interest in arguing or fighting with people. I would rather spend my time and energy on writing snarky reviews or having positive interactions with my friends and followers. I did have a lot of fun posting snarky status updates for it, though.
But I saw the whole series in spiffy hardcover on sale at Costco and so, of course, I responsibly bought only the first one to make sure I liked it before buying more bought the whole damn series in one go because, well, no impulse control.
But anyway. This was fun. I liked it. I look forward to the next one. Which is good. Since, as I said, I already have the next one, and the one after that Oh, and TeamChaol. View all 67 comments. I mean what’s not to like: A mysterious new world, a set of interesting characters in novellas and a lot of potential plot-lines to explore. But, after reading this first book, the only reason I’m rounding up what felt like a 2.
But even for a young audience, I believe “I swear on my crown that the pup shall live. But even for a young audience, I believe some of the stuff here are too shallow and rudimentary, especially in the first half of the book. Though it wasn’t much original, I still found the plot to be interesting. The unfairly convicted protagonist trying to make a change by fighting on multiple fronts, and some politics to keep things heated among characters, while adding a bit of dark magic to have a little mysteriousness.
Story starts with Celaena being conditionally released from prison, to participate in a competition which expects to select a champion for the king.
I was under the impression that this competition would be the main plotline, but it was mostly on sidelines. Politics played a major part, and I think that’s what I enjoyed the most here. As for magic, there wasn’t a whole lot of revelations in this one, however I’m hoping everything would become clear in time. But after a few chapters, it quickly becomes apparent that the main theme here is romance.
Everything revolves around Dorian – Celaena – Chaol trio, and leading up to a too obvious love triangle. But at least, it’s not one of those terrible ones, where one of the three being a complete villain.
The pace of the story was also okay, and even though the book wasn’t much impactful, it was kind of a fun read overall. But the prose has a lot of room to improve, especially by moving beyond the pure melodramatic conversation. However, I have to admit, it did get better towards the end. Even though the villain turned out to be the obvious one, I loved the detailed final battle, until the very end.
From the very first page, I didn’t expect much from Celaena. It was clear from the novellas, aside from being fun, she had a number of conflicting traits, and was not very congruous with being an infamous assassin.
Trying to squeeze in this many qualities to a single character is hardly a good idea, even if the character is of an age suit to be full of wisdom, and experience. But when you try that with an eighteen year old girl, who is the definition of impulsiveness, it is not surprising that the character turning out to be an annoyance.
Even if the author had intended to create a strong role model for readers of the intended audience, I think the character came out looking too shallow, and inconsistent. I’m not giving examples to avoid spoilers, but one does not have to look deep to find her shortcomings.
Celaena might be a very popular character but she is anything but a role-model in my opinion. If it wasn’t for the novellas, I probably would not have finished this book.
And even with the novellas, I still might’ve discontinued, if it wasn’t for the shared opinion among many that first couple of books being the weakest in the series. I hope, at least in time, these qualities would fade away. At this point, I cannot say that I liked the prose that much either, but I’m hoping that’d improve as well.
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We each survive in our own way. This is going to be a rather personal review because Throne of Glass took away a week of my life and my SJM virginity. A couple, actually, and they mainly involve the writing and a certain main character which I won’t name for now.
Now, before I start, I must s We each survive in our own way. I can see that. I actually could see a writing style development between the first and the second half of the book. Too many exclamation points!!!!!! I don’t like that, nuh-uh. Plus, most of the time, it really looked and felt like a thirteen-year-old fangirl wrote a fanfiction based on scratches of books she’s seen her big sister read. The plot is not bad. Not bad, but not breath-taking, either.
I’m not giving up, though, because I trust my fellow readers and I believe it when they say it’s gonna get better. Well, Now, another thing that threw me almost completely off the Throne of Glass Train, was the main character, Celeana Sardothien. Oh, boy. I had such a hard time with this one. Not only I didn’t connect with her and her way of thinking before the very last chapters, she’s also made it into my Top 3 of most annoying characters thanks to her immaturity.
Basically Celeana in every single line ever: For someone who’s supposed to be a deadly assassin, she’s pretty weak and dull. I get it that she’s a girl who likes being pretty and wearing nice clothes and dating hot boys I actually love it when a female character can be girly and badass at the same time , but she’s just so narcissistic and stubborn, she never or rarely speaks without thinking first, that you can’t help but put aside her best sides and focus on the tooth-cringing ones.
Sometimes, she really lacks tact, not to mention good manners, and, for the most part, she walks around feeling like she invented the concept of being a badass.
You still have a lot of road ahead. So flipping frustrating. To be completely honest, sometimes I even enjoyed this book, but I couldn’t help but notice they were chapters or paragraphs in which Celeana was silent or absent or too busy fighting for her freedom to care about other stuff.
Ahem, I’ll leave the math to you, peeps. Bless the multi-pov option! Which brings us to the romance side.
Guess what? There was a love triangle! Since, y’know, I think it’d too much to hope Dorian and Chaol will both dump Sardothien, grab a dozen puppies each, and ride their way into the sunset, together. You can tell someone didn’t really do their best at researching. The setting and the way all characters behave could have been a little more authentic, and, holy crow, the ooc-ism was too much, even for a mediocre book. I have too high standards now.
Until then, two and a half stars are more than enough. The plot in particular. SJM stepped up her writing game and I also ended up liking celaena’s character development. This to say, don’t be surprised if you step upon another of my THG reviews and find it more positive than this one. Love what I learned from this: sometimes giving a book series another chance wil end up surprising you. I’m afraid this just wasn’t for me. As an avid reader of the fantasy genre, I am saddened that this is marketed as a fantasy-for-females.
Fans of fantasy – actual fantasy – I don’t suppose I’m afraid this just wasn’t for me. Fans of fantasy – actual fantasy – I don’t suppose would much enjoy Throne of Glass , either. And even though the synopsis makes it sound Hunger Games -esque, I’m afraid on that front, you’d be disappointed, too. I would say, if you enjoyed The Selection by Kiera Cass , but long for a less self-abasing character than America, then I think you might enjoy Throne of Glass.
I must warn you: this review will be long , and most of it dedicated to a bit of a character study if anything; and why Sarah J Maas failed at her character of an assassin. But let’s start at the beginning. Celaena Sardothien has spent years in the death camps of Endovier, where she will ultimately spend the rest of her life. Until, that is, crown prince Dorian appoints her to enter in a competition for the title of King’s Champion, who will be tasked to do the King’s secret bidding.
But when one by one, the competitors turn up dead, Celaena knows that something evil lurks the castle. Instead of the action-packed novel I was lead to believe I’d be reading, all I got were No, Sarah J Maas , I hope you don’t forget what we came here for. When I say that Throne of Glass lowers the standards of Fantasy , I mean that it doesn’t seem to know much about its own setting.
Royal Households everywhere, at every turn of the century, have a set of rules dictating things such as etiquette; what is proper and what is im proper. And these rules don’t exist for the sake of it – there are reasons behind etiquette: to prevent affronting your peers, for instance. To prevent harmful court gossip. To prevent a crown prince from running around and fathering a thousand bastards before he is even dubbed King, creating more than enough future claimants to the throne.
I assume the same applies in Throne of Glass ; for instance there are etiquettes mentioned that deem a prince dancing with only one partner something considerably rude. So it threw me way out of time and place when I found out that Chaol, Captain of the Guards, would enter Celaena’s chambers at any time of day he wishes – even when she’s still dressed in her scanty nightgown.
Even the Prince does this; visiting her whensoever he pleases. You may call me a prude, you may call me many anti-feminist names, but this is not acceptable. Not because I give two cents on what the court would say about Celaena; not that I give two cents whether or not the prince was copulating with her; but because this is simply not done.
Especially not without repercussion, if even in the form of social stigma. Celaena had a maid waiting on her – but it seems that all she was good for was putting her clothes on.
It was Chaol who barged in her room, underdressed as she was, just to wake her up. He is a Captain of the Guards. This should not even be his task! These small, ridiculous ignorance of Royal Household etiquette and division of labour made it seem as if the whole thing was poorly researched. You may argue that this was not feudal England; that this world was built entirely of Maas ‘ imagination, but things such as logic should still apply.
And when has it ever been logical for a Captain of Guards to be responsible for waking up guests? When has it ever been acceptable for a Prince to come and go, without repercussion, into a common girl’s chambers? But that is exactly the problem with Throne of Glass. The entire premise wasn’t logical.
By this I am of course talking about the King’s competition. He’s hosting a competition. He invited twenty-three members of his council to each sponsor a would-be Champion to train in the glass castle and ultimately compete in a duel. To work for the King of Adarlan as his loyal servant.
She raised her chin. To kill for him But where is the logic fail? Allow me to reiterate. He wants a loyal subject to kill for him, without question, with the utmost secrecy. Yet he chooses this loyal subject through a competition. Not only that, he makes his councilmen choose the competitors for him.
I may not be a direct member of a royal family myself, but I know there are things such as court intrigue and hidden agendas and hell, there are hundreds upon thousands of discrete allegiances and plots being made left, right and centre. Do you really want your future, “loyal” Champion to be handpicked out of a number of criminals and entrusted to your councilmen? The whole competition thing wasn’t at all very thought through. In the end, it felt as if it was just there to get the story going, to get Celaena into the castle.
The competition itself was a let down nstead of some fight-to-the-death or similar trope, we get An archery competition.
And a lot of others that happened off screen. Amidst all these competitions and training programs, the plot scattered into flirting banter, gatecrashing parties, and some girl-on-girl hating; as if the author wasn’t quite sure whether she wanted her novel to be the story of a ruthless assassin, or the romances of a ruthless assassin princess-wannabe.
And now I get to Celaena, the princess-wannabe. Allow me to present a number of quotes I’ve highlighted: She loved clothes–loved the feeling of silk, of velvet, of satin, of suede and chiffon–and was fascinated by the grace of seams, the intricate perfection of an embossed surface. And when she won this ridiculous competition, when she was free A half-rate boy assassin!
She bared her teeth. How dare she be denied an invitation to the feast? You read all that and tell me, do you imagine these thoughts coming from a renown, world-class assassin? An assasin complaining about her wet shoes? About not being invited to a banquet? Two things strike me here: First, she had just spent years at a death camp , but her behaviour upon leaving it did not portray any humility or gratefulness of being far away from all those whippings and forced labour. You’d think she’d just be glad to be away from the mines and pickaxe to be complaining about wet shoes SMH.
Second; this sounds more like something a ditzy princess-wannabe would say. Oh, after I win this competition, I’m gonna buy myself some clothes. For someone who has spent years suffering, who spent her childhood being trained as a ruthless killer, she comes across sounding so privileged. Now, I’m not an assassin. I’ve never been trained as one, but for years I did go through a whole series of martial arts before finding one that suited my small stature. And of all martial arts — from karate to jiu-jitsu to wushu to the one I finally settled with — there was one thing we were taught was the foundation of any great martial artist.
And I’m sorry, Celaena. But you don’t have it. This is her reaction to failing at a game of pool : A shriek of rage ripped from her throat, and Celaena ran over to the pocket. She first screamed at the ball, then took the cue in her hands and bit down upon the shaft, still screaming through her clamped teeth. Finally the assassin stopped and slapped the three ball into the pocket. This is her discipline at training: “It’s cold,” she moaned, holding her knees to her body.
She didn’t care that she had only a few months to beat the other Champions–she needed sleep. Do you think the realm’s greatest killer would be afraid of walking in a glass house? The thought of standing on floors of glass made her queasy. She had a terrible headache around her left temple. Everything was sickly and frail. They were so high up, so dangerously high Do you think they moan and whinge and complain at the drop of a hat? Once they’d finished their run, they trained in a private room far from her competitor’s eyes.
Until, that is, she collapsed to the ground and cried that she was about to die of hunger and fatigue. Discipline doesn’t just mean getting up every morning and training every day.
It also means a discipline of the mind. It means self-restraint. It means keeping your head low. What kind of assassin wants to be the centre of attention?? To have her skills known?? If you want glory, then you’re in the wrong career path.
Be a damned knight. But Celaena is vain and self-absorbed. She wants to be in the spotlight. Could she actually stomach working for him?
And I suppose “assassin” is just a synonym for mercy-killer? But enough of her faults. Let’s take a look at her more positive attributes. She’s beautiful.
In fact so beautiful that she drains the blood out of people who sees her: Celaena smiled smugly to herself as she nodded to a passing noble-man, who raised his eyebrows at the sight of her. He was immensely pale, she noticed as he opened his mouth to say something, but Celaena continued down the hall.
In fact so beautiful that other ladies envy her and she has to shove that in their faces view spoiler [because you can’t have a YA novel without other girls being envious of our heroine! Even Redd, one of the handsomer guards posted outside her rooms, had said so. Also shallow, as it seems, because if Redd hadn’t been handsome, his opinion wouldn’t have mattered, right? Still not convinced that she’s shallow?
Why did Chaol never joke with her as Dorian did? Perhaps he truly didn’t find her attractive. The possibility of it stung more than she would have liked. You see, because people can only like you if you’re attractive. Oh, sorry, I got sidetracked. We were talking over her positive attributes. Well, she’s a great dancer: She didn’t falter a single step, nor did she seem to care about the many angry female faces that watched as dance after dance passed and they didn’t switch partners.
She also plays a mean piano view spoiler [because music is like, the way we show just how deep and artistic our heroine is hide spoiler ] : Celaena eyed the pianoforte. She used to play–oh, she’d loved to play, loved music She loves dogs view spoiler [because that’s how we know she’s a kind-hearted person. No evil person is an animal lover! I don’t want her urinating on everything and chewing on furniture and shows and books. And I want her to sit when I tell her to and lay down and roll over Oh, but she doesn’t want to be inconvenienced so she doesn’t want to train it herself of course!
She speaks foreign languages, and! I could go on and point out her inconsistencies , but this is getting much too long for my liking. In short, Celaena Sardothien is a Mary Sue.
But even worse — she is an unlikeable , vain, shallow, self-centred Mary Sue. And if you expect me to believe she’s a deadly killer, then you better think again. But that is the final problem I had with this book — the narrator constantly tells us what to believe.
There was something great and deadly concealed within her, and he didn’t like it. Yeah, no. Also, “Because it looks like he’s in love with her,” he said, and walked away. His shoulders were straight, his back erect. He looked like a man. Like a king. Yeah, if you say so. But, you say to me, there must be something you liked? Well, I did like Celaena’s relationship with the err, Indian princess. I forgot her name.
Because I didn’t like the actual princess herself — she doesn’t know tact. She doesn’t know diplomacy. She comes to a foreign realm and all she does is whinge and insult their language and clothes and court. So, no. I didn’t like the plot, I didn’t like the characters. The only stars go to Chaol for being a beacon of sanity amidst all the awfulness. It’s a pity he, too, fell for our Mary Sue. View all 51 comments.
It took a minute to get used to the narrator but I finally got settled in with her. I love Celaena Sardothien. She was taken from Endovier the death camp and brought to the castle to fight with other Champions. If she wins then she has to kill for the King for 4 years and then she is free. I have a feeling that’s not to be. Prince Dorian is the one that chose her as his champion to fight against the others. Celaena is being called Lady Lillian because they don’t want anyone to know who she is, since she is a bad ssed assassin.
I loved and still to this day love Chaol. But, I never liked the fact that Dorian and Celaena shared a few kisses. Ewww, I just don’t like Dorian that way. He’s like a best boy friend. How awesome is that. Oh, and the part where Prince Dorian picked up one of the steamy books she had been reading. Lol “Sunset’s Passions,” he read, and opened the book to a random page to read aloud.
Do you actually read this rubbish? I’m glad they were friends. We do finally find out what it is and it just figures. That’s all I’m going to say. I loathed Cain, one of the champions, and Kaltain, an evil woman that was up to no good as well.
I loved Nehemia, she’s from another kingdom and there for her own reasons. Nehemia and Calaena become best friends. And I loved Elena, she’s a ghost of someone.
But who? Not saying. She bad to the bone! Assassin Celaena Sardothien! She’s the toughest assassin around and she loves books and plays the pianoforte. Imagine that :- I really liked Chaol, the captain of the guards. I loved Nehemia, she is a tough princess in her own right and a great friend. I’m very interested to know more about Elena and hope she shows up in the other books. This was just an awesome fantasy book with a great cast of characters!! This is a very popular series. Listen to me here, if I were a fantasy fan when I was a teenager, I would have definitely read this book.
But you know, my relationship with fantasy hasn’t been lit for the last years , so I hadn’t picked it up. I started loving fantasy again this year because of A Court of Thorns and Roses , a book I bought because I needed it for my uni thesis, not because I was interested in reading fantasy again. I haven’t read fantasy since I have a million fantasy series to catch up to.
I’m nervous. After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 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 four 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 Then one of the other contestants turns up dead 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. I had very high expectations for this book which were partially met.
As I said before, my first Sarah J. Maas book is A Court of Thorns and Roses , which is the her latest series. Most of you have read Throne of Glass first and then A Court of Thorns and Roses , and you have experienced her writing flourish.
I haven’t. I read her better book first. I can see now that she has improved so much, her writing is so much better now. Some things in the writing of this book weren’t my thing, like repetitions of some phrases, “assassin” being referred to Celaena the whole entire time which bugged me a bit , poor choice of words at some parts. But I recognized Sarah in this book.
I can recognize her writing style now, and I truly love it. From the badass main character with the hard to pronounce name which reminded me of Daenerys Targaryen to the championship which was like the Triwizard Tournament in Goblet of Fire , the vibes were fucking lit yo! The world Sarah J. Maas has created in this book was so immersive, I was so into it when I was reading the book. I wasn’t even confused with all the names and places and words, it all came natural to me.
I can see how after this book, the world will expand to an enormous extend with magic and Fae and so many new characters appearing, and I’m here for it! The multiple character perspectives was a surprise to me. Celaena owns the most chapters, but we can see things told from mostly all the characters, even the fucking King which is something I was surprised about as it does not happen in her other series.
I loved it. The multiple character POVs. And I relish in the fact that we can explore things from numerous viewpoints.
I didn’t expect her character to be like this, to be honest. The book description suggested a ruthless, cold-hearted killer, and I expected as much. But her compassion and her kindness and her passion for multiple things showed from the very first pages. She is a merciless assassin who can end you with a snap of her finger but she has also kept her personality.
Her humor, her quirkiness. Especially in fantasy. I can relate to them so much easier. I immensely appreciated her friendship with Nehemia and that it wasn’t ruined at the end. I was so scared about this. I loathe when they make female characters hate each other in books, especially about a love interest!
Just don’t, please. Girls need to stick together! I want to see more of her in the future books. I’m sure we will, but it was left kind of wonky in this book. I suspected her too, in the middle of the book, and I was certain it was her, orchestrating everything. But it was Cain. The obvious choice. It was anticlimactic, to be totally honest. I wanted it to be someone else. We all expected Cain, and it was Cain. I didn’t believe it would be him, I was certain there would be a plot twist, at the end, or something.
But no. I love both Dorian and Chaol, both for different reasons. I’m so fond of the relationships Celaena holds with both of them. They’re so different, and yet they both mean so much to her.
Their scenes were cuter, and I think they have more things in common. They made me feels so many things! And then we have scenes with Chaol and I was back in that train again. I will choose for you, but for myself. The one moment she found Dorian extremely attractive and she wanted to kiss him, and the next she found Chaol handsome and she wanted to spend more and more time with him. I was as much confused as she is. But I’m delighted that the author didn’t make the romance the main part of the book.
She didn’t portray Celaena as a character who depends on a man to save her, or to make her feels special or anything alike. She would have been fine without them as love interests in her life.
Furthermore, I have to talk about Nox. What a sweetheart. What a wasted opportunity on a character. We basically saw nothing of him. But I kept thinking about his character. I hope we see him again. The final battle It dragged more than it should, to be honest, but it was breathtaking.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. You know you’re in love. She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.
