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A review by btlitell
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Did not finish book. Stopped at 67%.
DNF @ 67% (end of chapter 35)
I really tried with this one. I heard from so many people that "it gets better just hang in there" and "it's not her best writing because she was so young when she wrote it" and all that. I kept hoping for whatever the "gets better" point to be to get here but it just never felt like it did.
Things I didn't like:
So much telling not so much showing (mostly around Celaena's fame and skills as "an assassin")
Character development
Repeated phrases throughout ("I'm an assassin!" being probably the hardest to ignore)
The champion tests felt either too "eh" or like there was a deus ex machina kind of solution where Celaena was perfectly unable to lose somehow.
There wasn't really enough tension going on even with the murders happening all over the place
Too much unbelievable stuff (the most famous assassin in the world but she's what 21, how often people snuck up on her, how everyone knew the name Celaena but no one knew what she looked like, etc.)
This I did like:
The fantasy setting felt interesting
Court politics (to a point, it gets very high school pretty easy)
A world where magic was banned and "killed off" (successfully or otherwise)
The concept of a "kingdom of assassins" struck me as neat and fairly original
Survival of the fittest style contest (could have been more but I liked the idea)
I really tried with this one. I heard from so many people that "it gets better just hang in there" and "it's not her best writing because she was so young when she wrote it" and all that. I kept hoping for whatever the "gets better" point to be to get here but it just never felt like it did.
Things I didn't like:
So much telling not so much showing (mostly around Celaena's fame and skills as "an assassin")
Character development
Repeated phrases throughout ("I'm an assassin!" being probably the hardest to ignore)
The champion tests felt either too "eh" or like there was a deus ex machina kind of solution where Celaena was perfectly unable to lose somehow.
There wasn't really enough tension going on even with the murders happening all over the place
Too much unbelievable stuff (the most famous assassin in the world but she's what 21, how often people snuck up on her, how everyone knew the name Celaena but no one knew what she looked like, etc.)
This I did like:
The fantasy setting felt interesting
Court politics (to a point, it gets very high school pretty easy)
A world where magic was banned and "killed off" (successfully or otherwise)
The concept of a "kingdom of assassins" struck me as neat and fairly original
Survival of the fittest style contest (could have been more but I liked the idea)