The first book in New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's sweeping fantasy saga - now available in hardcover with a new look to match the series!
When magic has gone from the world, and a vicious king rules from his throne of glass, an assassin comes to the castle. She does not come to kill, but to win her freedom. If she can defeat twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition to find the greatest assassin in the land, she will become the king’s champion and be released from prison.
Her name is Celaena Sardothien.
The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. And a princess from a foreign land will become the one thing she never thought she’d have again: a friend. But something evil dwells in the castle—and it’s there to kill. When her competitors start dying, horribly, one by one, Celaena’s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the source of the evil before it destroys her world.
It was OK...
I just didn't feel a connection with any of the characters. This was definitely not a romance...but that could be a...YET. There were some lusty thoughts flying around but I never felt like they were true feelings.
Everyone is a baddie, no one I felt was truly heroic. There was a brief time I thought the heroine acted a little selflessly towards another character, but it was fleeting. I don't really want to fight the good cause with any of the characters because deep down, the cause doesn't seem very noble.
The narrator does a good enough job. No problems telling the characters apart.
A little too expensive to go on in a series that I wasn't completely sucked into. Unless a humungous sale has them all for under $5.00 each, I think the Throne of Glass series ends here with me.
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