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 four years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilarating. 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.
Published: 2012 to 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Series or Stand-Alone: Books 1 to 8, Throne of Glass
Source: Owned
MY REVIEW
With the final book in this series now out, rather than just picking that up and reading it and as this series is one of my favourite ones of all time, I thought it would be a good idea to pick this up again right from the beginning. I know that if I was to just pick up the final book, I would just end up spending a great deal of time at the start trying to remember and figure out what had gone on before. I am so that glad I did.
What I didn't like about this series... Despite the fact that I loved this series and have given it a full five starts, that doesn't mean that there were no aspect of it that I would have changed given the chance. One of those for me was with the main character Celaena herself. Yes, she is a hard ass trained assassin but at times it felt that she did not think too much about the actions she takes or the repercussions of her actions, leaving remaining characters to pick up the rest.
What I liked about this series...
The Writing - Easy to read, follow and because of the type of complexity of the story you don't want to spend too much time trying to decipher fancy wording etc. No fancy wording but great descriptions that helped build the world and characters in my own imagination.
The Characters - What I liked the most was the character progression and the different struggles they face as the story goes along, both in terms of the story and in terms of their own internal dialogue. My favourite character was Chaol. You see him at the start a bit grumpy and
very regimented on his position but also very loyal. As the story goes on, he is still all of those things but we slowly see a lot more.
The Story - With each book, we learn more and more. Even with Tower of Dawn when we take a 'break' from the main story and follow Chaol on his journey (that, of course, was one of my favourite stories of the whole series). There were a few story lines that I enjoyed more than most. One of them was the story of Chaol (as mentioned above), where he meets Celeana and goes on from there. There are a few more but don't want to spoil the story for those who have not read all the series yet!
In Summary... I loved this series. It was one of those stories that I picked up and just could not put down until I reached the very last page of the last book. I am so sad that this series has come to an end but very excited to see what Sarah J Maas has in store next!
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