Review: Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

"Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart."

Crown of midnight is the second instalment of the throne of glass by Sarah J. Maas. In this second novel we follow Celaena Sardothian after winning the king’s competition, and becoming the king’s personal champion. While we follow the tasks that the king assigns Celaena we also get to see a more personal and intimate relationship with her friends.

“If they wanted Adarlan’s Assassin, they’d get her. And Wyrd help them when she arrived.”

Name: Crown of Midnight

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 418

Publisher: Bloomsbury, August 27th 2013

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction

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Series: Throne of Glass: Book 2

“To escape death, she’d become death.”

My Thoughts

As a second instalment to Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight is an exciting and heartbreaking novel. Celaena finds herself now the kings champion, and must complete these tasks he assigns her. Most of them are killing people who pose a threat to him.

The one thing I absolutely love about Sarah J. Maas’s writing is that you can be so developed in Celaena’s mind, and yet still not know what she is thinking. The biggest examples I can provide for this; is as reader we thought she was killing all these people in the book, but actually she was deceiving the king by bringing him body parts by already dead people. But the biggest example of this is when it was revealed right at the end that Celeana Sardothian was actually Aelin Galythinus the lost queen of Terassen.

Celaena actually being Aelin blow my mind. I could not believe that I invested two books into Celaena and she is actually Aelin the lost queen that was mentioned many times. Sarah J. Maas completely threw me off with that.

Would I recommend this book?

I would most definitely recommend this book to anyone who has read the first book. However I would not recommend this book to anyone who has not read Throne of Glass. I do stress that if someone did not enjoy the first book to please please continue on reading, Sarah started this series when she was 16 years old so her writing and creative output gets better and better.