Throne of Glass

Hardcover, 406 pages

English language

Published Aug. 23, 2012 by Bloomsbury USA Children's.

ISBN:
978-1-59990-695-9
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4 stars (8 reviews)

After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

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Review of 'Throne of glass' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Celaena Sardothien spent years in the Endovier death camps, where she would spend the rest of her life. Until, crown prince Dorian appoints her to enter a competition for the title of King’s Champion, who will tasked to do the King’s secret bidding. But when one by one, the competitors turn up dead, Celaena knows that something evil lurks in the castle.

This was a huge letdown for me. It mainly involves the writing and the major lead.

For someone who’s supposed to be a deadly assassin, ’s pretty weak. I get it. She's a girl who likes to be pretty and wear nice clothes and date popular boys (I actually love when female characters are both girly and badass at once). The problem is that she is so narcissistic and stubborn that you can't help but focus on the tooth-cringing parts of her personality. She never (or rarely) speaks …

Review of 'Throne of glass' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Celaena Sardothien spent years in the Endovier death camps, where she would spend the rest of her life. Until, crown prince Dorian appoints her to enter a competition for the title of King’s Champion, who will tasked to do the King’s secret bidding. But when one by one, the competitors turn up dead, Celaena knows that something evil lurks in the castle.

This was a huge letdown for me. It mainly involves the writing and the major lead.

For someone who’s supposed to be a deadly assassin, ’s pretty weak. I get it. She's a girl who likes to be pretty and wear nice clothes and date popular boys (I actually love when female characters are both girly and badass at once). The problem is that she is so narcissistic and stubborn that you can't help but focus on the tooth-cringing parts of her personality. She never (or rarely) speaks …

Review of 'Throne of glass' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A good, fast-paced read, but not quite as good as Maas's later work; certainly feels the Y in YA. Can be read as a standalone but is probably better if you continue on to read the whole series (I assume).

To summarize it briefly: Celaena, a proficient assassin, has been in the salt mines for a year when she is taken out by Prince Dorian and his guard captain Chaol to be the prince's candidate in a competition to find the next King's Champion. But someone, or something, is picking off candidates even outside of the competitions designed to winnow out the unworthy. Celaena's heart is also pulled into two directions, between the overtly romantic Dorian and the steadfast Chaol.

The major drawback to the book is that it's so clearly written to be part of a series. For instance, from very early on, I started to suspect that Maas …

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Subjects

  • Assassins
  • Princes
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance
  • Prisoners
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General
  • Court and courtiers
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic