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Rezension zu Throne of Glass von Sarah J. Maas

The badass of Erilea

von marthamaria vor 8 Jahren

Kurzmeinung: Pretty dresses and sharp blades, a deadly combination!

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marthamariavor 8 Jahren
I had this book sitting on my shelf forever!!! I am glad I read it now, yay! :)

So this novel is about a fantasy world named Erilea and our protagonist is Erilea's most dangerous and famous assasin, 18-year-old Celaena Sardothien. In this world, magic, fae and witches exist. However, the king of Ardalan decided to outlaw magic and seize control over all of Erilea, imprisoning those who do not obey his laws. Of course he is met with resistance by rebels such as Celaena herself. She however, is captured and thrown into a slave labor camp named Endovier where she is treated awfully cruel and almost exhausts herself to death. One day, Adarlan's Prince, Dorian Havilliard, visits Celaena to bring her to the capitol to take part in a special competition. She will fight against all kinds of assassins, murderers, killers and thieves to be chosen as the king's champion. Celaena is tempted to reject the offer as she despises working for the king who destroyed her life, yet she accepts when she is promised her freedom after four years of working in the king's service, should she win the competition. While training for the competition and regaining her strength, she meets the captain of the King's Guard, Chaol Westfall who helps her train. Although her main goal is to win the competition and earn her freedom, she gets entangled in a far bigger scheme. In her dreams, the first Queen of Ardalan, Queen Elena who was part Fae, visits Celaena to warn her about great danger inside the castle as well as danger threatening the whole country. And if that wasn't enough already, Celaena slowly starts to fall in love with Dorian while forming a strong bond of friendship with Chaol in the process.


Spoilers, Obviously.
Nice fantasy novel I'd say. I ship Dorian and Celaena all the way, basically all the scenes I liked, al the cute moments were between those two. For instance when she is surprised by the candy Dorian gives her on Yulemas and her teeth turn red, that was soooo sweet! Or when they dance on the Yulemas ball, that was a wonderful scene as well. Hmm and that amazing part when she plays the piano and she plays really good actually so Dorian awkwardly busts into her room and she is all confused and angry but theeen... she tells him about her sad past and he gets why playing the piano is such a private thing to her. Their relationship was super nice! Dorian himself is also a nice character, he is definitely different from his father who is just a dick basically. Dorian cares for his people and his country and he wants to change something. Especially when he sees Celaena's scars, he is so angry and fed up with his father's way of ruling the country. Since I am already writing about the awful people in this story, that Perrington guy is such a douche. I mean, I definitely did not like Kaltain but she was manipulated by him and his black ring thingy until she had to calm herself with opium. That is kinda shitty right there. Also Cain is clearly a bad and cruel character. What I actually thought was a pretty weak plot twist, him being the monster evil force thing that kills off the other champions was expectable. The fight between Cain and Celaena in the end though, that was damn amazing! How Elena helped her and Nehemia did magic and all that, it added up to a very thrilling, fantastic fight scene. Oh Nehemia! I thought she was gonna be an evil character, too. Cause she acted so weird in the library and I was jumping to the same conclusions as Celaena. Glad she is a good-natured person tho! Back to the bad characters, that Arobynn Hamel dude, what an awful man. Breaking little girl's hands is definitely not an effective pedagogic method. Okay and one more thing I thought Sarah J. Maas could have toned down a bit is that lengthy and extensive description of clothing. Like I do NOT need to know every tiny detail about a ruffled silk dress or some embroidered pants or whatever. Seriously. I was actually only gonna rate it 3 stars but that one scene, my favourite scene of the whole book, convinced me to give it one more star. And that scene, was the period scene. So Chaol is kinda dense in that scene. Celaena is back on her period and she has cramps and is kinda moody and she feels sick. So Chaol enters her room and is about to give her some lengthy speech to confess his feelings or something but then she pukes on him haha (I think Chaol is boring I ship Celaena and Dorian anyways) and explains veeery slowly that she has this monthly condition... as a woman... and he DOESN'T GET IT!!? WHAT?? Chaol you dork. When she tells him, he feels kind of uncomfortable and leaves, which I tought is clearly prove that he is not the right man for her, he cannot even handle periods. Anyways, Dorian enters her room some time later and he reveals that Chaol told him about Celaena's period. Just imagine that conversation between these two, haha talking about Celaena and her period.. I dunno why Chaol would even mention it lol. So Dorian talks to her and he is funny and witty and he makes her laugh even when she feels like dying and THat is WHY DORIAN is THE BEST he is the right one!! HE can handle her even on her worst days. I SHIP IT!! And finally, someone included periods in a book. Every single book I read with some badass female protagonists, I always wonder how they handle their periods. Like Katniss in the arena what does she do, jumping and running and kicking shit. Or Clary, where does she get her tampons when they travel the demon realms?? I am so glad that was included here.. Fav scene in probably the whole series!
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