Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
So I, like a relatively normal teenager, find myself surfing the interwebs. I find this beautiful thing called 'Booktube' about six months ago and after watching for sometime I hear a certain Booktuber bring up this series. The booktuber's username is PeruseProject you should go check her out she's awesome and just yeah. I keep a mental note that I want to see about this series the next time I'm at the public library. I go, I get it, I read it (in eight hours) and fall in love with it. This book is everything I've ever wanted in a fantasy series for YA. If you want to get into fantasy and you don't want something too heavy like Game of Thrones, try this because you will seriously love it.
The writing is FANTASTIC. Sarah J. Maas is an amazing writer and I bow down to this woman. I think she's awesome and has a true talent for the writing word. Okay, enough about my fangirling let's get onto the review.
Basically, the story is about this female assassin named Celaena Sardothien who is at this slave encampment called Endovier and she is summoned by the king of Adarlan to take part in this champoinship to become his personal assassin for all the kingdom's dirty work basically. She agrees to participate in exchange for only working for the king for four years before earning her freedom, not the original six years his son, Prince Dorian Havillard, offered. Long story short she wins. There you go.
She wins and throughout this whole book there's this subplot of champions being killed by this mysterious force type thing it's executed very well. I didn't think that one plot tried to overpower the other and it was very well balanced. Also the "spirit" I suppose you could say of an age old queen named Elena basically "haunts" Celaena and warns her about bad things to come.
This book didn't end with a cliffhanger but it also definitely didn't feel like the end of a stand alone. It gave us a lot of world building and I was so excited to start its sequel Crown of Midnight. I can't say enough good things about this book. It is awesome and the writing is superb. I felt like she kept the suspense at a minimum but I liked that! It was so refreshing to see a book where the obvious was still kept in the dark with frustrating suspense that didn't need to be there. She left me wanting to know more about Celaena's past but didn't make her backstory super obvious that I just wanted to know how she would let it play out.
All in all I gave this book five stars on Goodreads and you guys should seriously check it out.
You guys can buy it from Amazon here, from the Book Depository here, and Barnes and Noble here.
