After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.
Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilarating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.
Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another.
Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.
MY REVIEW:
You know how I said in my Angelfall review that I don't go into hyped-up books with high expectations? Yeah, well my mistake was going into this book like that. I didn't enjoy this book at all. I thought our MC Celaena was going to be a total bad ass. WRONG. After years of working at a salt mine, wouldn't thoroughly hate the person who put you there? I definitely wouldn't be going along with the required life style. She is trying on dresses, doing her hair and reading. I pretty sure I laughed and thought to myself "WTF is she doing?" throughout the whole book. I also didn't like the ancient faerie part of it. I don't really see how that went along with the huge battle for champion. They don't even work together! The book was just too long and annoying as hell. I was only going to give it one star, but I ended up giving a whole star to Chaol. He was the only person I liked in this whole book. He was the only character I looked forward to reading about. Now, HE was a BAD ASS! I just felt that this book was all over and events didn't really connect with each other. Gosh, this book was dumb. I laughed at the writing style and laughed at the dialogue. I will definitely NOT be continuing with this series. (2/5 stars)
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