Author: Sarah J Maas
Genre: Fantasy
Throne of Glass is about the value of freedom with a hint of romance. There are sorcerers and fairies, so there’s a theme of magic. In summary, the book is the adventurous story of a nineteen-year-old assassin hand picked by the Crown Prince to be the King’s “Champion”. Her name is Celaena, the infamous killer of Endovier. The Prince brings her to his glass castle to compete against two dozen other brutal murderers and criminals. Celaena’s only chance at freedom is to win the competition and be the King’s personal assassin for four years. Any other outcome would mean her death. She’s confident that she will be victorious, but an evil shows itself in the castle. Celaena’s opponents are mysteriously being murdered in the nights. Now she has two things to worry about: winning the competition and avoiding the evil seeping through the cracks of the unnerving glass castle.
The descriptions are fantastical and like fairy tales but with a twist of toughness and clever plots. The way Maas wrote the characters makes readers fall in love with them. She describes the dresses and world wonderfully, as well as the fear and fighting. It’s an exciting and intriguing book.
I’d recommend this to any fantasy-loving teen. I think girls would especially like it, seeing as the main character is a strong, independent, young lady who takes control of her life and causes chaos wherever she goes, but is still a teenage girl at heart. There’s lots of fiction, with magic, monsters, and faraway, dangerous kingdoms. If you’ve read The Selection, this book might be good for you since both have the idea of competing against others to be someone significant in the royal family. Except, in one, they’re vying to be the wife of the king, and in the other, Throne of Glass, they’re striving to become an assassin for the king.
Aine Kern
Genre: Fantasy
Throne of Glass is about the value of freedom with a hint of romance. There are sorcerers and fairies, so there’s a theme of magic. In summary, the book is the adventurous story of a nineteen-year-old assassin hand picked by the Crown Prince to be the King’s “Champion”. Her name is Celaena, the infamous killer of Endovier. The Prince brings her to his glass castle to compete against two dozen other brutal murderers and criminals. Celaena’s only chance at freedom is to win the competition and be the King’s personal assassin for four years. Any other outcome would mean her death. She’s confident that she will be victorious, but an evil shows itself in the castle. Celaena’s opponents are mysteriously being murdered in the nights. Now she has two things to worry about: winning the competition and avoiding the evil seeping through the cracks of the unnerving glass castle.
The descriptions are fantastical and like fairy tales but with a twist of toughness and clever plots. The way Maas wrote the characters makes readers fall in love with them. She describes the dresses and world wonderfully, as well as the fear and fighting. It’s an exciting and intriguing book.
I’d recommend this to any fantasy-loving teen. I think girls would especially like it, seeing as the main character is a strong, independent, young lady who takes control of her life and causes chaos wherever she goes, but is still a teenage girl at heart. There’s lots of fiction, with magic, monsters, and faraway, dangerous kingdoms. If you’ve read The Selection, this book might be good for you since both have the idea of competing against others to be someone significant in the royal family. Except, in one, they’re vying to be the wife of the king, and in the other, Throne of Glass, they’re striving to become an assassin for the king.
Aine Kern