Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Genre: Fiction, High fantasy, epic fantasy
Format: Digital Purchase via Kindle
Publish Date: August 2012
Read: August 2023
Favorite Quote: “Guards are of no use in a library.” Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Story Synopsis: After a year as a slave, the most notorious assassin, Celaena Sardothien, gets a lucky break when the prince wants her to compete to be the King’s Champion. Should she win the competition, she’s offered her full freedom after a few years of service to the crown. Choosing between the competition or certain death in the labor camp, Celaena travels to Rifthold and competes in a series of tests and trials to become the King’s Champion. While in the castle, she befriends a princess from a rival realm, the captain of the guard, the prince, and seeks to learn what evil creature lurks within the castle and why it’s killing her competitors.
Why does this book beguile? After devouring the ACOTAR series and the first two books of Crescent City, I knew I had to read Throne of Glass. This series is Maas’ first and more solidly in the YA genre than ACOTAR or Crescent City (which are decidedly more… adult). Throne of Glass is an eight-book series spanning nearly five thousand pages - and I am unsurprisingly barrelling through it. Much like Maas’ other books, you begin with a human heroine, faced with an impossible circumstance that she must make the best of. Calaena is a deeply layered character, and each chapter allows you to learn more about her, her history, and watch her grow. The other main characters of Chaol, Dorian, and Nehemia are also rich and complex, and the way Maas tells the story from multiple points of view is fun, exhilarating, and keeps you turning the page.
Rating: 5/5
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