The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, Books 0.1-0.5)

by Sarah J. Maas

[Leah]

Oh, holy crap. This was epic! For those who say they don't read or like novellas, The Assassin's Blade is a must-read for the Throne of Glass series! To read what happened to Celaena before Throne of Glass is a necessity because it's what makes her who she is, and it's ridiculously good. Like blow-my-brain-up good. I closed it feeling all the feels possible.

The story between Sam and Celaena is just heart-breaking. We know, from reading Throne of Glass, that Sam is dead but we don't know much of how it happened, and it's heart-breaking, I swear. There's a BIG, BIG part of me hoping it's a fakeout? And he'll come and pop out alive in one of the next five books. PLEASE.

I loved how each of the novellas carried on from the last, and I just lapped it all up! it was epic! I felt like I was right there, with Celaena, although I would have been absolutely useless as I cannot fight at all. To read all these things that makes Celaena, Celaena was absolutely epic, I'm STOKED to get into Crown of Midnight! I am raring to go to devour the rest of this series!