Review: Thone of Glass Novellas Pt.1 by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass Novellas

Author: Sarah J. Mass

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2012

Genre: YA Fantasy

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The Assassin and the Pirate Lord (0.1)

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          Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s Assassin. To say her name is enough to instill fear into the hearts of people, even if they’ve never laid eyes on her. If they did, they’d never believe her because Celaena is a very cocky and very confident sixteen-year-old girl assassin. Trained by the best, her skills are unmatched by other member of the Assassin’s Guild.

         

          In this first novella, Celaena’s skills are wanted to deal with the Lord of Pirates, who owes money to the guild. But paying the debt involves trading slaves, something that doesn’t sit well with Celaena at all. She’s going to have to learn to work with her fellow assassin and nemesis, Sam, if she hopes to do the right thing.

Celaena is the strongest heroine I’ve seen in a while, and her cockyness makes her annoying…until she proves she can do all that she boasts about and more. She knows she’s getting into a lot of trouble by defying her master, but she does it anyways. Saving the lives of those people is more important than anything he could do to her. I so wasn’t expecting a romantic element in this novella, and so was pleasantly surprised by it. I wasn’t sure if he was a bad guy or a good guy. He’s very set on following the rules and that made him a pain in the butt, but he’s just trying to keep Celaena safe.

This might be a novella but to me it read like a complete book. It’s fast paced, interesting, with enough character and world background to hook you and never let you go!

Best scene: Tavern brawl. 

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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas 

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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 kings 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'm a fantasy writer. Unpublished for now, but I don't see that being the case much longer. I'm currently at Seton Hill University where I'm in the Writing Popular Fiction program. As much as I love to write and want to be published, I want to teach people who have the same passion as I do realize their dreams or at least learn that writing can be an excellent form of therapy. I've had some awesome teachers and I hope to emulate them. The MFA from Seton Hill will make that happen.