Published by: Bloomsbury Childrens Books, August 15th 2013
Genre: YA, High Fantasy,
Pages: 418
Format: Paperback
Source: Purchased
Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful – the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But though she won the King’s contest and became his champion, Celaena has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule is so dark and evil it is near impossible to defy. Celaena faces a choice that is tearing her heart to pieces: kill in cold blood for a man she hates, or risk sentencing those she loves to death. Celaena must decide what she will fight for: survival, love or the future of a kingdom. Because an assassin cannot have it all . . . And trying to may just destroy her.
Love or loathe Celaena, she will slice open your heart with her dagger and leave you bleeding long after the last page of the highly anticipated sequel in what is undeniably THE hottest new fantasy series.
Sarah. J. Maas has done it again. (And one day I will be able to correctly type Maas on the first go. Dammit.) Her writing is c r a z y good. It's absorbing, compelling, vivid - and don't even get me started on how well she writes the bad ass fight scenes. It's strange, and rare for me, to be reading and to see a scene so clearly in my head as it plays out. But that is exactly what happens with this book - aaaand it makes it a LOT more intense when the chapters are action-y, almost-getting-killed-y. The amount of times I have thought Celaena was going to die is unreal.
Crown of Midnight was actually terrifying at times. In the dungeon, under the clock tower? I could hardly bear to keep reading!! That was the most scared I have ever been when reading a book, and I do not scare easy at all. Sarah, you have a hidden talent for scaring the crap out of people!
I usually have some sort of structure to my reviews but with this - nope! You just get rambling. It is so. good. though. Celaena is tough without being masculine, she's feminine without being vapid, she's quite frankly everything I have ever wanted in a heroine.
I can only *heart eyes* to everything in this book. I love it so much!! *cries and grabby hands for book three*
My only complaint about this book is not a complaint about the book at all. The foil on the title came off again, like it did with Throne of Glass. Crown of Midnight on mine actually just says Rown of Idnight, because it rubbed away in the course of me reading it (and I am not heavy handed at all, nor do I have long scratch-your-eyes-out nails.) It's really strange, since I've never had foil do this before, only with these books. Alas, it adds to the charm.
((I just found out this is a SIX BOOK SERIES. I thought it was a trilogy. Thank the Gods, thank the Wyrd, thank anyone who will listen. I am so happy. I am in no way ready to say goodbye to these morons next book. Whew!))
Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful – the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But though she won the King’s contest and became his champion, Celaena has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule is so dark and evil it is near impossible to defy. Celaena faces a choice that is tearing her heart to pieces: kill in cold blood for a man she hates, or risk sentencing those she loves to death. Celaena must decide what she will fight for: survival, love or the future of a kingdom. Because an assassin cannot have it all . . . And trying to may just destroy her.
Love or loathe Celaena, she will slice open your heart with her dagger and leave you bleeding long after the last page of the highly anticipated sequel in what is undeniably THE hottest new fantasy series.
Crown of Midnight was actually terrifying at times. In the dungeon, under the clock tower? I could hardly bear to keep reading!! That was the most scared I have ever been when reading a book, and I do not scare easy at all. Sarah, you have a hidden talent for scaring the crap out of people!
I usually have some sort of structure to my reviews but with this - nope! You just get rambling. It is so. good. though. Celaena is tough without being masculine, she's feminine without being vapid, she's quite frankly everything I have ever wanted in a heroine.
I can only *heart eyes* to everything in this book. I love it so much!! *cries and grabby hands for book three*
My only complaint about this book is not a complaint about the book at all. The foil on the title came off again, like it did with Throne of Glass. Crown of Midnight on mine actually just says Rown of Idnight, because it rubbed away in the course of me reading it (and I am not heavy handed at all, nor do I have long scratch-your-eyes-out nails.) It's really strange, since I've never had foil do this before, only with these books. Alas, it adds to the charm.
((I just found out this is a SIX BOOK SERIES. I thought it was a trilogy. Thank the Gods, thank the Wyrd, thank anyone who will listen. I am so happy. I am in no way ready to say goodbye to these morons next book. Whew!))
Characters ★★★★★
Setting/world building ★★★★★
Writing Style ★★★★★
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look at this pretty cover
also buy me it :|
There should be a new short story called The Assassin and The Fangirl. It will just be me fawning over Celaena and her silently glaring/plotting my death.
"Celaena, you're so pretty, how do you do your hair?"
"Celaena your knives are so deadly and gosh! the way you wield them is beautiful. I'd love you to teach me how to use them."
"Celaena why are you - what are you doing with that knife?"
...
I die in the end.
psssssssssssssst
look at this pretty cover
also buy me it :|
There should be a new short story called The Assassin and The Fangirl. It will just be me fawning over Celaena and her silently glaring/plotting my death.
"Celaena, you're so pretty, how do you do your hair?"
"Celaena your knives are so deadly and gosh! the way you wield them is beautiful. I'd love you to teach me how to use them."
"Celaena why are you - what are you doing with that knife?"
...
I die in the end.
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