She was sent to serve a life sentence in the salt mines in Endovier, but after one year of hard labour there a young prince comes and offers her a deal that can save her: he offers her freedom, but she must win a competition that his father holds. She was an assassin, the best of her kind, until she made a fatal mistake and got caught.
The main character is an eighteen-year-old girl named Celaena Sardothien. A New York native, Sarah currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and dog.The story takes place in a land called Erilea. The first book in her Crescent City series, House of Earth and Blood, was published in 2020. Maas is the bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series and A Court of Thorns and Roses series.
We all bear scars,… Mine just happen to be more visible than most. I can survive well enough on my own- if given the proper reading material. It’s what lies inside of you that matters.
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. When her competitors start dying one by one, Celaena’s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass–and it’s there to kill. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king’s champion. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. Although Throne of Glass was a YA novel, my understanding is that as the series advances, the stories venture more into adult fantasy territory. My biggest complaint was that Celaena was crazy confident all around but was surprisingly girlish and giggly at the same time. The addition of a magic element partway through was a little rough transition, but Mass set up enough hints and political intrigue to fill out a full series of books. I was completely hooked by this fantasy bestseller with its fun premise and a deliciously stereotypical love triangle. As Celaena trains with the gruff Captain of the Guard and catches the eye of the Crown Prince, she must use all her strength to fight off her competitors and all her wits to discover who is murdering contestants. If she wins, she’ll be granted her freedom after four years of service. He wants Celaena to be his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. After spending a year of hard labor for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is taken before the Crown Prince.
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