“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Sipnosis
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 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.
Opinion
This book tell us the story of the best assassin of the kingdom to her way for her freedom, Celeana Sadorthian may be the champion of the prince. She may compete with other assassins to win her freedom. But not everything is about the championship, something is the killer her competitors, something strange and dark.
First of all, I would like to talk about Celeana. She is the main character of this book, a girl who is an assassin just for survival, a girl who shines despite all the darkness of her past. A girl who is a criminal just to survive. I really like the way she becomes stronger and stronger each day, the way she convinces that a winning is the only option to win her freedom. Despite all of this, she is a little selfish, but it is understandable.
Then we have Chaol and Dorian, they are best friends. I think in the book we need more paragraphs about them, to know how they feel, how they think. Both characters let me with a lot of questions.
I love the idea of a love triangle, but what I loved the most was that any of the characters were in an open fight for the girl. Dorian and Chaol respect the decision Celean took for the good for three of them.
While you get involucrated more and more into the book, you realize that not everything is what it seems. The villain seems to be more cleaver than they appear, there is more of what the author let us watch.
Another topic that of this book is that MAGIC IS FORBIDDEN. And it becomes really interesting when Celeana found out that magic isn't extinct in the castle of glass, in fact, in seems it is part of the castle.
And what is more interesting is that the competitors are dying in mysterious ways, is magic involved? There are no clues, there are not footprints… Celeana is the middle of this battle, even if she didn't want to, what takes her to suspect of her friends and the competitors of the championship.
Talking about the championship I liked that the author describe some of the tests competitors had to made, especially, the way she describes how Celeana feels about everything. But, I would like Sarah J Maas wrote more about the test Celeana had to survive, because at some point the story become slower. On the other hand, the author focused more about the mystery and all the crets that surround the palace.
I really love this book, it has everything, magic, action, romance, comedy, mystery, EVERYTHING!
Throne of Glass has become in one of my favorite reading of 2019. I really want to conclude this saga.
See you on the next review dreamers!
-Daydream 🌻🌻
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