Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)

by Sarah J. Maas

[tellemonstar]

This review was originally posted on book reviews with the blogmonstarWowzers guys! I mean really. Also, thank god Crown of Midnight didn't have that awful second book curse. But really, there were some huge revelations in this things, and some other major things going on and I had several flaily fan-girl moments throughout.

Crown of Midnight is fairly character driven, but rather than it being all just character feelings, the desires and motivations of the characters and the actions or reactions they have because of these desires and motivations push the plot along nicely. At the same time the way these actions cause the other characters to react sets other things in motion as well. And it's all good... Or bad depending on your viewpoint I suppose.

There are some major moments in this book, including a fairly enormous plot point revealed in the final chapter that was hinted at quite a few times within earlier chapters. Certain elements (a song, some of Celaena's behaviours) that perhaps didn't make sense certainly make sense once this is revealed. I was left going o_0 *flail* when I closed the book.

I don't know that I can really say too much else for fear of spoiling, but I will say that I don't think everyone will like the second book in the series, mostly because of how the author chose to characterise Celaena in this one. HOwever, we do have to remember that for all her experience as an assassin, she's still only an eighteen year old girl.