Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

"No. I can survive well enough on my own - if given the proper reading material."

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Cover to Throne of Glass

Throne of glass is a fictional fantasy novel about an assassin, who has been sentenced to Endovier a prison camp because of her crimes. She is Adarlan's best and most feared assassin. Her world is flipped upside down when the crowned prince of Adarlan and his guard come to take her from Endovier to be the prince's champion in the king's deadly competition.

"Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons."

Name: Throne of Glass

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 404

Publisher: Bloomsbury, August 2, 2012

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction

Purchase: Chapters, Amazon

Series: Throne of Glass: Book 1

How I came to read Throne of Glass

My best friend who I have known since kindergarten was hounding me to read throne of glass for a really long time. So much so that when I got a gift card from my boyfriend for christmas that she told me if I do not buy this book she will come down and murder me. So naturally because she kind of scares me I bought the book. I bought Throne of Glass online at Chapters, I had never heard of Sarah J. Maas before that. Back then I did not know that I was buying a book that would change my life.

"Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters."

My thoughts

When I first started reading this book, I enjoyed it but I did not understand the huge hype. It was good, but it wasn't the best book ever, you know? The first half of the book we follow Celaena Sardothian, the most feared assassin in Adarlan. She was captured and placed in a brutal prison camp. There she was whipped and tortured for years. She is a skilled, witty and arrogant girl who has gone through too much death, and torment for one person to handle. Celaena is known for her witty comebacks, gorgeous looks, and her deadly skills. She manages to keep the reader interested even in slower parts of the book by never knowing what is going to happen. One thing that I am consistently expressing about this book is that Celaena can still surprise you. While reading this book you are completely in her head, you know exactly how she is feeling and what she is thinking, and then out of nowhere she completely twists the plot. She is always surprising us, Sarah J. Maas is an expert with plot twists and in depth character development.

Celaena starts off as this under fed, emotionally broken spirit, still mourning the loss of her lover Sam when she is first introduced. But by the end of the story we have watched her patch herself up and pick herself off the ground. She turns into this determined survivor that ends up a champion. As woman reading this novel is uplifting, and empowering. If Celaena can pick her self up and dust herself off after everything she has been through, than I can do anything.

Would I recommend this book?

I would 110% recommend this book to anyone. Especially to female readers. This novel really teaches women that no matter what we can really do anything. Celaena is an amazing example of a badass female character that can handle anything that is thrown at her.