I am pretty excited because Cover Story has had over 1000 views! I thank you sooooo much for people who are returning Cover Story Readers and for those who subscribed to Cover Story. This week i reviewed The Throne of Glass by Sarah J.Mass and i might post character descriptions later this week as an extra, so keep a lookout for that. For all those Americans who are traveling somewhere for Thanksgiving should consider bringing The Throne of Glass with you, it's a great read!
Author: Sarah J. Mass
Pages: 404
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance (a little bit)
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Reading Level: Young Adult & Up (recommended for 12-17 yrs old)
*Caution Some Spoilers*
Synopsis
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.
Book Trailer :
My Thoughts
The
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass is a young adult fantasy book. The book
follows Celaena Sardothien, who is an 18 year old assassin. Had started
training to be an assassin when she was eight years old, after her family was destroyed.
She grows to be the deadliest assassin in the world. When Celaena was 17 years
old she was caught and was sentenced to a lifetime of slavery in the dreadful
slave camp Endovier. After a year in Endovier, Celaena is released by Crown
Prince Dorian and Captain of the Royal Guard Chaol Westfall. Celaena has a
choice to either compete in a competition to become the Kings Campion or go
back to the prison camp. . Obviously Celaena chooses to partake in the
competition, because after several years of being the Kings Champion, she will
win back her freedom. The competition is a series of tests that she and the
other must pass, if a competitor lost a test they would be sent back to where
they were fetched.
Before the competition had even began, a competitor had been
found dead, for an unknown reason. One by one the competitors started dying,
but nobody knows who is committing the murders. One night Celaena discovers a
secret passage way that leads to Queen Elena Havillards tomb (the first Queen
of Adarlan), Queen Elena, tells Celaena that there is evil in the castle and
that Celaena must win the competition to defeat it. Curious Celaena then tries
to uncover the mystery behind the deaths (the evil).
Finally Celaena finds out
that it is magic (which is illegal/banned), with the help of a human, killing
the competitors. When Celaena enters the secret passage way once again, she
seen Cain, Lord Perrington’s champion,
controlling a ridderak; a magic being. Once Cain leaves the passage way, the
ridderak spots Celaena and attacks her,
Celaena is able to defeat it but, had bitten her
and its life threatening poison was slowly spreading. Luckily Princess Nehemia
(she is a foreign Princess), was waiting in Celaena’s room for her and knows about magic and was able to heal Celaena.
In return Celaena, tells Nehemia who she really is (because she was using an
alias) and it turns out Nehemia has been protecting Celaena the whole time.
Finally it is time for the final battle between Cain and Celaena, the only two competitors
left. The two drank a victory drink but Lady Kaltain; Lord Perrington’s fiancé had slipped bloodbane, a deadly poison, into Celaena’s drink. When battling Celaena feels dizzy,
week and can't control her body as well, when Cain almost beats Celaena he
summons an army of magical beings similar to the ridderak, but only Celaena can
see them.
Fortunately Nehemia is there and is able to summon Elena, Who Heals
Celaena from the poison, afterwards Celaena beats Cain. Livid Cain tries to
kill Celaena but Chaol saves her by killing Cain. In the end Celaena becomes
the Kings champion and lady Kaltain ends up in jail for poisoning Celaena. Not
everything ends up happily ever after though because before Celaena becomes the
Kings Campion, he threatens her by telling her that, if she disobeys him he
will kill Chaol, Nehemia and everybody she cares about, yeah not a nice guy.
I absolutely loved the Throne of Glass! I literally couldn't put it down, it drew me in from the
first paragraph. While most books usually have a slow beginning because you’re
being introduced to the characters, etc but the Throne of Glass started with a Bang!
In the first few pages I was already learning about the competition and that
Celaena was the deadliest assassin in the world. I also adored Celaena, she was
just a likeable character, and everything I look for in a fake character;
tough, witty, smart and she can defend herself. What I admire about Celaena is
that she is confident, throughout the whole competition she was pretty
confident that she was going to win. But
Celaena also has many secrets that we don't get answers to in the book,
hopefully we will get them in future books. The plot was awesome, it had a lot
of magic and I would totally recommend this book to fantasy lovers. There was
also a lot of stuff going on in the book, conquest, magic, assassins and might
as well throw romance in there. What I didn't like about the book was that I
was expecting that there would lots of fighting, trickery and that the book
would focus more on the competition, but the book kind of glossed over them.
Even the testing were only mentioned in passing.
What I cant decide on after i finished this book, was if i liked Celaena and Dorian together or Celaena and Chaol together! They are both so sweet and its a bonus that they are both handsome. Right now I'm leaning toward Celaena and Chaol, but Blondie will tell you differently, because she is all for Celaena and Dorian, but soon she will come to the other side, mwah ha ha ha ha (we have cookies!)
Overall I would give this book
4 out of 5 nail polish bottles.
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