Title: Throne of Glass
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Ideal Age Range: Young Adult
Mass Market Paperback: 416 Pages
Blurb: 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 exhilirating. 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.
Rating:(★★★) Overall, I feel like the last one hundred or so
pages made up for the first part of this book. I think I might have outgrown my
love for Young Adult fantasy books. It’s totally possible that the immature
love and story lines that include tropes like a love triangle just don’t float
my boat anymore.
In general I enjoyed reading this book. It was easy to read and pretty
fast paced. I thought the Celaena wasn’t a believable assassin, but I don’t
know any real assassins so, what do I know about what assassins are like? I
didn’t like the love triangle, it’s t a tired story arc. Why can’t it be a love
rectangle sometimes?
It wasn’t amazing, but I liked it.
Quotes: “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading
material.”
