Book One
Throne of Glass series
Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness.
In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught.
Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament — fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin's heart be melted?
REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
“You could rattle the stars”
I’m going to say it, after countless times re-reading Throne of Glass, this time I hated it the most.
It has never been my favourite of the series, but I don’t think I’ve hated it as much as I do this time around. It all comes down to one factor; I hate Celaena.
Okay we get it, you’re the greatest assassin in all of Adarlan. Instead of telling me this over and over again, show me. In all honesty, she is more portrayed as a murderer than this elite assassin. Does Sarah J. Maas know what an assassin is, or did she just love the title?
She even made her door extra squeaky so she can hear people come in, yet there are countless times where both Dorian and Chaol walked in without her knowing.
What an amazing assassin… (sarcasm)
There is going to be a lot of things that I really didn’t like about this book, but I will say the things I liked about it first.
I do think Sarah J. Maas knows how to write a story. Let me rephrase that, she knows how to keep you in and hooked, wanting more. I mean, there is eight of them total in the series. And strange enough, I think she writes better side characters than main ones. For example; Nehemia. She was my favourite throughout this book that I just wanted the point of view from her. This is a character who would have character development and growth, unlike a certain someone else.
Okay, now to the things that annoyed me.
I really didn’t get the main plot of the story. So, you have this competition where these criminals, and yes Celaena you are one of them, to compete against each other to become the King’s champion.
Now, hear me out here, wouldn’t it be better to get a “champion” who was already loyal to the crown. You are intrusting this person to carry very delicate dealings, I would want someone who I could trust 100% Not criminals that would no doubt stab you while your sleep.
Out of all the criminals I think Cain is the most loyal to the crown. I’m surprised they didn’t just give it to him. Actually, knowing what is going to happen later on in the series, why didn’t the King give it to Cain? It boggles me how this King has gotten this far in conquering.
Talking about criminals competing against each other, can someone also explain to me how they had these lowest of low criminals just walking around the castle, attending parties and whatnot? There was a scene with Celaena and Nehemia walking together, alone it seems with no guards, when Cain and this other competitor just comes up to them and starts intimidating them. There was not once where a guard, which I believe there was none around, to stop this.
I know a lot of this is for plot reasons, but it just didn’t make sense at all. Am I the only one that remembers these are murderers and let’s not forget about an actual killer on the loose killing the competitors. Where is Chaol? Who, might I add, is way too young for this role as Captain of the Guard. The only reason he is in such a high position is because he needs to be a love interest for Celaena. Honestly, they should’ve just made a personal guard to the prince, that could be more believable.
On that note, let’s talk about the love triangle. The relationships between Celaena, Chaol and Dorian also made no sense to me. I know, this is becoming a pattern for this book.
I can’t believe what I’m going to say, but it’s true; If Celaena wasn’t beautiful (her words) then this book wouldn’t have the romance that it has. And they definitely won’t love her for her personality, even though Sarah J. Maas tries to give her a heart every now and then.
Celaena is basically a mean girl. There was so many disgusting instances where she made a comment of any group of girls, yet it’s okay for her to fawn over Dorian. Make this make sense.
This is why I don’t think she is a great assassin; she wants all the attention on her. And for some crazy reason, she cares more about what she is wearing then actually competing in this stupid competition.
There is a scene with her a Dorian and she says to him; “Would you like me to explain why, or is it enough for me to say that I don’t take jewels and trinkets as payment for my affection?”.
What an absolute liar. After you came back from the Silent Assassin’s (which I was hoping made you a better assassin, obviously not) he apologised for beating you to a pulp and then gave you a trinket. You were okay with that, and you still think he didn’t betray you.
I do know that these books start to get better, but I’m just surprised how much I hated Throne of Glass this time around. Hopefully I don’t feel the same for the rest of the series, not when my favourite character; Lysandra is in them.
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