Review: The Assassins Blade - Book #0.5 Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J Maas - March 2014 Having started my journey of the *Throne of Glass* and the first three books in the series, reading *The Assassin’s Blade* felt like an essential journey into Celaena Sardothien’s past. This prequel collection, made up of five novellas, offers an enthralling backstory that explains how Celaena evolved into the fierce and cunning assassin we meet in the rest of the series. However, reading it fourth in the series—like I did—left me feeling that it would have been better to start here. The insight into Celaena’s life *before* her time at Endovier is invaluable and makes her character arc that much more powerful. The five novellas take readers through significant moments in Celaena’s life as a member of the Assassin’s Guild, leading up to her betrayal and eventual enslavement. Through each story, we get a glimpse of a woman struggling with her identity, power, and feelings for Sam Cortland—her fello...

Review: Crown of Midnight - Book #2 Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J. Maas - August 2013 One of my goals this year for 2024 is to read the entire list of Sarah J. Maas's books, so I found on Instagram an order a friend had put together that combined all of her three series - this was because there is some crossover of a couple of characters/ scenes or places. I have read the first three ACOTAR books and now it jumps to the TOG series and this was the second TOG book to read. Now there must be something with the book #2's in the series as the same thing that happened with the 2nd book in ACOTAR happened with this book. The beginning and most of the story for this one felt quite slow-paced for me and I was in that mindset of "If I wasn't determined to finish her books, then this would be a DNF". I however, persevered and pushed my way through the book and it did take me three days to read - in saying that the first two days I only read a couple of chapters but by da...

Review: Throne of Glass - Book #1 Throne of Glass Series - Sarah J. Maas - August 2012 2024, is the year I plan to conquer Sarah J. Maas and all her books. Throne of Glass is Book #4 in her reading order as the first three books were the first three titles in her ACOTAR series. For me this particular book, I tried to read back in September 2013 and I could not get into it and at the time rated it 2 stars which was a DNF. Fast forward 14 years and it gets a borderline 4Ps for me as I think due to being invested this time around in her books, I felt more determined to read it and enjoy it as nobody wants to sit there and read a book that they are finding boring and hating. For me, the hardest thing I felt was the fact that I had to work extra hard in separating my universes and characters as I was so used to Feyre, Rhysand, and Tamlin - the world of Fae. In some way, I missed seeing them and felt a bit of sadness as they weren't existing in this book. I did get used to it though as w...