Lady Danielle

If you were enslaved and was given the choice to fight for freedom and become the King's Champion, would you take the offer? Celaena Sardothien, the land's notorious and feared assassin, accepts this offer, but for a price: she must compete with twenty-three thieves, assassins, and warriors for the title. If she wins, she will be the king’s Champion for four years and her freedom will be granted. However, this isn’t the only challenge strong-willed Celaena with encounter. In a land where magic is banned and a tyrannical king rules other lands, sinister murders are occurring in the throne of glass – something evil has arrived. Celaena will not only fight for her freedom, she will experience sentiments for Chaol, the Captain of the Guard, Dorian, the Crown Prince, and gain a friend.

For months I’ve passed up this book. Months I’ve considered reading it but ended up turning away. I’m kicking myself for not reading Throne of Glass sooner. Celaena puts the ‘bad’ in badass – I enjoyed this assassin. I loved the writing, I loved the witty conversations between her, Chaol, and Dorian, I loved the action, and I loved reading about the beautifully described dresses and balls. I applaud the fact that Celaena isn't afraid to look pretty and get her hands dirty at the same time. She acknowledges the fact that she's a woman. Usually, we come across a badass protagonist who's boyish and hates wearing a dress, but Celaena has the time to stop in front of a mirror from time to time to drool over how pretty and elaborately made a dress is. She isn't scared to let her hair down. Not once has she ever annoyed me, not. Once. Hands down, Celaena Sardothien is my favourite character in YA literature.

Many will have a problem with this, um, "love triangle" in Throne of Glass, but, my goodness, did I enjoy it. 

view spoiler In general, I abhor love triangles... but I can let this one slide... for now. Throne of Glass is just fun, fun, fun!

I'm making this book seem as though it's full of romance, it's not. Though Celaena is an assassin, assassination isn't actually taken place, but occasionally Celaena is thinking of ways to kill certain characters. Let me warn you all now that Throne of Glass isn't about assassination; rather, it's about strategy and tests. After all, Celaena does have to compete with twenty-three other people to become the king's Champion. Let me also warn you that this book will have some gore. My stomach clenched from the details that were described in the murders. So keep this in mind if you can't stomach what I stated. 

The reason why I'm not giving this a higher rating because a certain plot was added to this story I felt wasn't needed

view spoiler I think Sarah Maas didn't have to add that part in the story; I think she could have still done an amazing job with the original plot. But there're going to be 6 books, so hopefully it'll be explained throughout this intriguing story line I'm having high hopes for. Also, I also have problems with alternating POVs. Only because it's usually never needed or it wasn't well mapped out/connected with story. However, these occasional POVs were satisfactory -- it had meaning and they're extremely important to the story (view spoiler). 

I get why everyone loves Chaol more than Dorian. Chaol is skilled like an assassin, honorable, a hardworker, dedicated to his job and isn't easily fooled. I liked Chaol, but I see him more of a best friend-type. Dorian, however, makes me giddy. I love Dorian. He's a kind prince. Though he's been trained to use a sword, he would result to a debate. He's a reader not a fighter. Celaena is a likeable character; she isn't like most of the protagonists in YA literature. She's sophisticated, she loves books, she's funny and she's just everything you didn't expect a YA MC to be.

Well, I recommend Throne of Glass to everyone in need of a good traditional fantasy. 

(Random thought: I might give this a four star tomorrow or later on in the future. Whenever I have the book in my hands I have nothing but positive and fond thoughts.)

A lot of readers are saying to read the novellas, maybe I'll give them a shot. I really hate reading ebooks, though....