Author: Sarah J Maas

Pages: 404

Published by: Bloomsbury USA Children's

Published on: August 7th 2012

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 three years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. 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. 

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I really liked the world in this book. How they always mention that magic was banned and there are different countries and provinces. I do think the "no magic" thing will play a huge part in future books and I am super excited to see more of that and where it will go to.

Throne of Glass's plot was so great to read about. The concept of it being a competition and then the mystery of contestants being killed off just was glorious. It easily could have become too much stuff going on but if this book were only about the competition, it would get boring and repetitive pretty quickly. I did like how Sarah didn't fully neglect the competition because reading about the challenges and tests Celaena had to go through were actually really enjoyable to read. The ending was just the most suspenseful thing. I can't say what exactly happens but whatever happened made the book better than it already was. And it was already pretty good! The ending also made a great set up for the next book and I can already make a few predictions on what will happen. Sarah's was also really really good. Super excited to get to the next books.

I gave this book 5 stars because I just really really loved it.


This book was just filled with so many things to talk about. Nehemia and her little magic, Kaltain drugging Celaena, and Cain being a power sponge. One thing I really enjoyed reading was the magic and how Elena was visiting Celaena in her "dreams." The secret door in her room was so cool and that really just thickened the plot so much. It really made me want to read faster and finish I could find out what heck was going on because it was just so interesting.

The ending battle was intense. I was 100% sure something bad would happen to Celaena (other than the fact that Kaltain drugged her) and she would end up dead, half dead, or just not win this competition. When she started fighting back and seeing Elena again I was just in utter shock because

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Then in the ending we finally learn the truth about Nehemia and I was just so excited because that made her character to become more of an interesting character. It all started to make sense on why she had Wyrdmarks under her bed and Nehemia told her to stay away from them in the first place. (Wait....she dies doesn't she?) I am really excited fr the next book and to find out what other secrets people are hiding. :D

And as for whose side I'm on when it comes to the guys, honestly I can't choose, so don't make me haha.