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The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas

8 reviews

corinnez's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Assassins blade was very slow at first, it took me a while to get into it. once you get past the first two “parts” it’s a lot better and you start to develop a connection with the main character and fall in love with her. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pedophilia, Slavery, Grief, and Murder

shadow_summit's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

The Assassin and The Pirate King - 4.5 🌟
The Assassin and the Healer - 5 🌟
The Assassin and the Desert - 4.5 🌟
The Assassin and the Underworld - 3.5 🌟
The Assassin and the Empire - 3 🌟

Tbh the first few novellas featured in this book are pretty fun and show a lot of growth for our FL, Celaena, but of course it was more difficult to get through the last two books.
The main reason is for the silly decisions of Celaena and her blindness to obvious clues.
At the end of The Assassin and the Desert, you think you've reached a point of realisation and clarity of path for Celaena, but the next novella almost casts us back to the very beginning in terms of Celaena's personal growth, though thanks to our boi, Sam, she doesn't go back completely.
Now Celaena does have some redeeming reasons behind these blind moments, she's young, traumatized and she's obviously been groomed into the life she lives, but ultimately some of her slips of wisdom and blind trust/obedience could have been avoided if she was actually trained to be as cautious as she claims, and took a second to think through what's happening around her and pick up on patterns set by her enemies...
There's a lot of dark topics and scummy topics covered in this book (we are dealing with criminals, assassins and the underworld so it shouldn't be too surprising but still be forewarned).

Also, took a whole star off the overall rating because of an event in the last novella,

i.e. main lad, best lad, Sam deserved better. Should have fled away together with the clothes on their back. A little stealing would have been easy enough to achieve along the way and hardly a big no-no compared to all they'd done so far.

and while perhaps petty, since its my review I'm allowed to and will.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Violence

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Pedophilia, Vomit, Sexual harassment, and War

allydoessomereading's review against another edition

adventurous sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A great series of adventurous short stories to add some depth and backstory to the characters of celaena sardothien and arobynn Hamel. The first few stories feel more like separate adventures, lower stakes. Then the last two chapters/short stories are much higher stakes, impacting the wider story. A lot of fun to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lizziethebookdragon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Trafficking, and Colonisation

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Pedophilia

breathehopebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Abandonment

aammeess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Vomit

toastyghosty13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i will preface this by saying i read this after reading Heir of Fire. 

this book was definitely easier to understand and enjoy after reading the first 3 books of the series since some of the characters had been mentioned before. that also means it had a much greater emotional impact because there was already that context from other books plus i had grown to care about Celaena and where her journey brings her. 

this book was really enjoyable to read until the last story in it where i was immensely stressed because i knew the fate of one of the characters already. the other stories are great to learn about since they are mentioned briefly in passing in other books and shows some of the cool adventures and also morose treatment Celaena was used to and endured before meeting Dorian and Chaol in Throne of glass. 

after reading Heir of Fire and this, I am a lot more excited about reading the next installments of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Torture and Vomit

nicoledr's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, and War

Minor: Pedophilia, Vomit, Grief, and Murder