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Throne of Glass
Book 1 of Throne of Glass
- 432 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2012
- 31 editions
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1 About this book
Celaena Sardothien, an eighteen-year-old assassin, has spent a year in the prison camp of Endovier when the Crown Prince of Adarlan offers her a bargain: fight as his champion against twenty-three thieves, soldiers and killers, and earn her freedom after a term in the king's service. At the glass castle she trains under the Captain of the Guard and makes a friend of a visiting princess. Then her rivals begin to turn up dead, and it becomes clear that something in the castle is hunting them. Throne of Glass is the first novel in Sarah J. Maas's fantasy series of the same name.
- Fantasy
- Murder
- Fantasy & Magic
- Adventure
- Love & Romance
- Assassins
- Princes
- Courts and courtiers
2 What to expect
The opening novel of a long fantasy series: a young assassin is taken from a prison camp to compete for the post of king's champion. The contest, a murder mystery inside the castle and a love triangle share the story, and magic is only beginning to stir. It is a quick, accessible young adult fantasy with a confident, sharp-tongued heroine, and it sets up far more than it resolves.
Good for readers who want: young adult fantasy, a deadly competition, and the start of an epic series.
3 About Sarah J. Maas
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Sarah J. Maas
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