Throne of Glass

Review by heyes

Throne of Glass  

by Sarah Maas

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult

Rating: Y-13 **** changed to N due to content in the rest of the trilogy See Updated below****

Content: Murder, Violence: Some intense scenes, Language (D, B, H, Bd, S, A)

Summary: After being held in a slave camp for a year, Adarlan’s most feared assassin has a chance for freedom. The king has issued a challenge and his council members are each sponsoring a champion. The winner will become the king’s champion and be given a life of ease. Celeana jumps at the chance offered her by the King’s son, but when the champions start getting brutally murdered, Celeana wonders whether freedom might better be attained a different way.

Personal Review: This book was a fun read and a great book for your sons or daughters. It is the first of a trilogy and I haven’t read the other two so I can only judge this book by itself. Celeana was a character that I felt was well rounded and I could actually like her(surprising because usually when you are inside a girl’s head you don’t like them) There is a little bit of a love triangle going that I thought was not too gaggy but enough for the romantic fans. I do worry a little bit about how far the romance will go in later books due to some indicators, but this book is clean. The above mentioned violence is ripped apart bodies missing their organs. Pretty gross but a mature preteen could handle it. I liked the Rebellion story line this book is setting up and am excited to read the second book. And in case you wanted to know. I’m team Chaol thus far, which is very uncharacteristic for me because I love the blue eyes usually and Chaol's eyes are brown.

**** UPDATE: The second book of this series has sex, homosexuality, and prostitution. For this reason I do not recommend this book anymore because of the content of the trilogy. Why learn to like the characters in the first book when you know you don't want to read the second? See the review of the second book here

-heyes

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