A review by brooksie03051
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

She is the King's Champion, the greatest assassin her world has ever known.
But will her goal to become free be stronger than her conscience, or her heart?


After being sent to the Salt Mines of Endovier for a year of hard labor by the King,
eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien won the right to become the new royal
assassin. However, Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She holds a secret close, even
keeping some from the few people she considers friends. She must keep the King happy
as she pretends to do his bidding to kill those he states are a threat to his throne.  Celeana
is intelligent, and observant and was trained by Arobynn Hamel the King of the Assassins
and the head of the Assassin's Guild, as well as the master of the Silent Assassins in the Red
Desert.

She's given a task that is harder to conceal from the King and could jeopardize everything
she's come to care for. There are far more dangerous forces gathering that threaten to destroy
all she holds dear, her freedom and her world. 

  • How is it that the King was able to conquer so many kingdoms?
  • What is HE hiding from all his subjects? 
  • Will she be able to piece together all the crumbs she has come across in her time here? 
  • Is there anyone that she can trust with all she has learned?
  • Celaena has to make a choice.
  • Where do her loyalties lie, and who is she willing to fight for?

I look forward to the next adventure this series has to offer and see how Ceaena handles the
new revelations she has revealed about the King, Prince Dorian, and Princess Nehemia Ytger,
the secrets hiding in the Palace of Glass and her own heritage that she has kept closer to her heart.