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The action-packed, heart-wrenching and fantastically addictive sequel to Sarah J. Maas's epic fantasy debut THRONE OF GLASS.

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. Celaena faces a choice that is tearing her 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.

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425 pages
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9 - 12
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Bloomsbury YA
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15 August 2013
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One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade ― Time Magazine on the Throne of Glass series

Celaena is as much an epic hero as Frodo or Jon Snow! ― New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce on the Throne of Glass series

Epic fantasy gold ― USA Today on the Throne of Glass series

Adventure fantasy spiced with titillating romance ― Sunday Times on Throne of Glass

An epic fantasy readers will immerse themselves in and never want to leave ― Kirkus Reviews

Intricate plot, dishy romance and rich world building ― Booklist --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Throne of Glass, Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City series. Her books have sold millions of copies and are published in thirty-seven languages. Sarah lives with her husband, son, and dog.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury YA; 1st edition (15 August 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Crescent City, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and the Throne of Glass series. Her books have sold more than twelve million copies and are published in thirty-seven languages. A New York native, Sarah lives in Philadelphia with her husband, son, and dog. To find out more, visit sarahjmaas.com or follow @therealsjmaas on Instagram.

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Kings Champion

Reviewed in Australia on 6 February 2020

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After winning the contest and becoming the Kings Champion Celaena Sardothien is doing everything that is being demanded of her, meaning she's killing people that are not following on the King's ways. Now home after her latest mission with head in tow, she is already given a new target: Archer Finn, former crush and friend from the time when she was part of the Assassin’s Guild. But it turns out, she's not killing her targets as she’s told to, but faking their deaths. If someone discovers this secret she won’t be the only one in danger Chaol and Nehemia will be killed. But Celaena may be the Kings Champion but she won’t be his Assassin. But this target the stakes are higher, Archer is a well-known figure in Rifthold and faking his death may not be an option.

More secrets are revealed, new bonds and friends are made. Things between Chaol and Celaena heat up and become more then friends as a relationship is started. But when lies and secrets and revealed things are going to destroy what normalcy of a life that Celaena has created and may just break her.

Dorian and Celaena continue to stay friends but as Chaol and and Celaena grow closer the bond between Dorian and Chaol start to thin and split. I wasn’t a fan of of this connection to start if between Chaol and Celaena as I felt bad for Dorian but I understand that Dorian was young and not what Chaol needed to help her grow. But I still feel that Chaol is just a fill in that her true lobe is to still come and can’t wait to see who that is when he comes. Celaena is a sting and independent woman and she needs someone she can trust 100% and that won’t take her crap or bow to her.

When things go horribly wrong and the lives of her friends are in trouble Celaena must let her biggest secret out to help save them, even if it is the one thing that may ruin what is left of the friendship they have left. After Celaena shows her true self to Chaol to save him he is willing to sacrifice himself to save her by giving himself to his father to get her away from the king. But is it the right thing to do, once he finds out the whole truth?

My heart breaks for Dorian, so much happens for him in this book and he doesn’t know what to do or who to turn to. But when he finally finds that he can trust his friends, they still keeps secrets from him and he doesn’t know why to understands why.

Thank you for all that you have done for me, Dorian. Thank you for being my friend. For not being like the others.”

“I’ll come back,” she said quietly. “I’ll come back for you.”

Celaena Sardothien is Aelin Galathynius

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YA Fantasy - So excited for the rest of the series!

Reviewed in Australia on 15 December 2021

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4/5 ⭐️ YA Fantasy

This book, slightly slow like book one ToG, but still very well written and so so tightly planned that everything just slaps into place whenever somethings get revealed.

It never stops to amaze me how SJM sets things up across so many books. Appreciate it.

Still don’t get why Chaol instead of Darian - not that either of them are can be endgame, it just baffles me.

I’m super excited for the rest of the series and can’t wait!

-1 because it felt slow in parts, and I’m not a fan of the ‘find these magical items’ trope —— there’s a name for that… Quest trope? Which is silly considering most YA fantasy books have this trope, maybe I’m just over it.

Audiobook - performed so well 👍🏽

Reviewed in Australia on 11 January 2022

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I am so glad I decided to read this book and make up my own mind. It is fun trying to work out who is the enemy and who is a rebel fighting for freedom from the tyrant king.

The triangle between Dorian, Chaol and Celeana is constantly changing and I was surprised
when I read about a few of the twists. This is becoming a real adventure and full of intrigue and mystery.

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NOW ONTO BOOK THREE!!!

Reviewed in Australia on 15 November 2016

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WELL, WHAT AN ENDING! The cliffhanger you have when you don't have a cliffhanger, the ending to CROWN OF MIDNIGHT gifts the reader with the suckerpunch only the most alert and outlandish fans of this remarkably popular series could contemplate.

It must be said, however , that just like book one, the opening section is a little slow to get going. The pace of the book picks up as you make progress through the story, however; and the secret and legendary tunnels that are believed to exist beneath the castle's ancient library could almost be used as a metaphor for the book's plot. And vice versa.

New characters are introduced, but some of their oral behavioural patterns tend to drag the book's IQ level down a few degrees. They are certainly original, however, and enhance the story by their addition, but more could have been achieved with a with a more mature outlook. Obviously the book's central characters return and the story telling ties between Dorian, Chaol and (of course) Calaena twist and turn like the mighty Amazon river at full tide. Other characters begin to show their true selves at different stages of the story and these particular evolutions will potentially leave the reader breathless with expectation when they stop to think of the associated ramifications.

The writing style hadn't changed much; apart from the handful of criticisms I have outlined above. But that's no bad thing - just as the millions of copies of books in this series that have been sold will verify.

Fantasy lovers will stand tall in this book as the story shows its true character. Book one was essentially a YA romance (nothing wrong with that) but book two evolves into something much greater. if any story can prove the adage that a good fantasy series is more than the sum of its parts, MIDNIGHT CROWN is it. I hereby award full marks for one of the mot exciting, emotional and action packed YA books released this generation. Now onto book three!

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Phoebe

Loved it and Hated it

Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2022

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This book took me sooo long to read, I had to keep pausing to read books that would keep me awake. Don’t get me wrong, the storyline was great, the character are fine (Dorian and Celena being the best of them), but it just felt so predictable that it got a bit boring. Cannot wait for the next one though! That ending!

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Absorbing and intriguing

Reviewed in Australia on 28 May 2016

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I am never quite sure what is going to happen next in this story, and my emotions are getting a real work out.

Intrigue around every corner; friendships forever being tested; loyalties divided; love thwarted; magic looming; mysteries everywhere; scary creatures lurking; evil rising; and an adorable dog. I am loving this story, I love all the characters too. Hoping for a good ending eventually.

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eloise.reads

Alrighty then!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2020

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Yaaaaaaaaaaas Sarah J Maas

Ok, I know this is an older series and I'm way behind buuuut I can't wait to read the next book.

After becoming the Kings champion, Celaena is tasked with seeking out and killing those who the King feels need to be assassinated. However, Celaena is anything but loyal to the King of Adarlan and deceives him from the very start of this book. Then she is tasked with killing an old acquaintance Archer Finn and Celaena must make some difficult decisions. When disaster strikes, Celaena must decide who and what is most important to her and her future.

I started reading the ToG series after reading the ACOTAR series and falling head over heels in love with it. Having never read Fantasy before, I decided at the age of 26 to give it a go and then ACOTAR made me wonder why I'd never read this genre before.
Anyway... I read Throne of Glass and felt really underwhelmed. I found Celaena really irritating, self obsessed and a bit pathetic when she was allegedly the best assassin in Adarlan.
The first 100 or so pages, I still felt the same; her batting her eyelashes at any male and toying with Chaol and Dorian yet again. Then BAM sh** just got real. I flew through the second half of the book and enjoyed it so much. The relief! I wanted to love this series, now I can say that I am very invested. I purposely read no spoilers so was shocked at the revelations in the last few pages of the book. Admittedly Celaena still isn't my favourite protagonist, but she's growing on me!

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S Payne

A good next instalment but not as gripping as the first

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 March 2022

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I am a Sarah J. Maas fan and I loved ‘The Court’ series, so I was excited to step into the ‘Throne of Glass’ series but this just hasn’t hit the mark as well as ‘The Court’ series did for me. Saying that, this was a good next instalment.

Crown of Midnight takes a step away from the romantic drama of its predecessor and opens up a story that is bigger and bloodier. Celaena gets to explore all aspects of what it means to be an assassin in this book; she is tested constantly and you can see her growing and changing and learning as the story progresses. And this story is one tumultuous journey of extremely high ups and unbelievably low downs with Celaena taking relationships to all new levels and watching others fall apart. Old enemies resurface and we start to get a glimpse of just how big the picture Maas is painting for us actually is.

A couple of disappointing parts for me - how is Celaena the best assassin in the world but gets caught out all the time? It felt like there wasn’t a chapter that went past where she hadn’t been snuck up on, followed or knocked out. It felt really strange to me. Also - the pace. It felt slow, like really slow. There seemed to be a lot of doing nothing and waiting for stuff to happen.

The pros - the characters. What an interesting bunch. I enjoyed the scenes with Celaena and Chaol and also the scenes with Dorian. There is an interesting dynamic between these three especially and I look forward to seeing how that plays out. Also - the storyline and world building, it feels like there is a lot of drama ahead.

Overall, this wasn’t as gripping to me as the first one but we’ve been set up nicely for the next one in the series and I’ll move onto that after reading another book in between.

Bex

"To Escape Death, She Had Become Death"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2016

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This book is explosive from start to finish. It is fast paced, full of characters I came to love very quickly and not to mention there's plenty of magic, mystery and a really cute dog!

Celaena is back and better than ever after the events of Throne of Glass in which she eventually, after kicking some butt, became the Kings Champion. In this book we find out that this comes at a price and Celaena must now dispatch any enemies befalling the King at his request. But we know she's inherently good-natured, despite being crafty, so this isn't as easy as it seems.
Particularly when you might become distracted by a handsome prince or a romantic guard.

There are lots of back stories running throughout which all come together piece by piece. This made for a more interesting, detailed story as I tried to figure things out alongside Celaena. Compared to the first book this is a significant step up.

The character development is enormous compared to the previous book, which I felt showed each character kind of superficially. Of course I still liked the characters, but I didn't feel like I'd be too devastated if one of them took a tumble. Now I'm totally invested. The relationships, especially the way Maas shows friendships, are built within this second instalment and I much preferred that although there is romance, the friendships Celaena made were really well developed - I can't stand a story led by romance alone! Equally this made the secondary characters more important to flesh out the plot even more.

The plot was clever with lots of forks in the road. I thought I knew where this story was going, even on a romantic level, but actually Maas caught me off guard a few times which was refreshing. Usually it's obvious who the love interest will be, who will or won't die and so on. Maas actually takes chances and shows that certain events genuinely change matters for good instead everything being brushed under the carpet. Its rare for me to feel emotionally invested in the story and each character but towards the end of the book I was completely hooked. I love Chaol. I'm pathetic.

A really strong sequel - all the complaints I had from the first book were completely eliminated. I can't wait to see what happens next.

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Georgiana89

Huge improvement on book one

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2016

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I read the first book in this series about three years ago and was seriously underwhelmed. It felt overlong and a bit derivative and I didn't feel much spark with either of the romantic interests. I never had any inclination to read the sequels. And then, earlier this year, someone persuaded my to read the author's other series, A Court of Thorn and Roses, and it was one of my favourite reads of the year. So slightly reluctantly, I decided to give this series another go.

Across the board, this book was better than its predecessor. The heroine was more nuanced and developed, the main love interest had grown more attractive and the plot was more interesting, with more focus on the magic, the world and the backstory. It had lots of twists and turns and some quite shocking moments. It wasn't as good as the newer series, but it was very enjoyable.

Without giving too much away, it ends with two revelations/twists, one of which I'd suspected, one of which was a total surprise. As they were both things the main character knew but that had never been mentioned in her narrative, it was rather jarring, but definitely got me racing to pick up the next book.

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Caro Richard

Epic!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2018

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You know I didn't think it could get any better. But it did. It so did!

I was ridiculously happy! Floating a long in the world of Rifthold.

Then my heart broke. My actual heart broke reading this book.
'But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.'

My emotions went from one extreme to another. It was utterly fab. To read a book that garners this from me is epic!

Oh my god. Oh god. Oh my god! These were the words from mouth in the last 30%. I didn't think my life could get any better today BUT IT DID!

I understand that that this review is a rambling mess but I am gleeful about this book!

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