Throne of Glass 8 Books Collection Set

Throne of Glass #1-7

by Sarah J. Maas

Fans new and old will dive into this set that contains paperback editions of the entire The Assassin’s Blade, Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn, and the thrilling finale, Kingdom of Ash.

Genres: Fantasy, Romantasy, Romance, Fantasy Romance, Fiction, Fae, Young Adult

5009 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Sarah J. Maas is the #1 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-eight languages. She lives in New York City with her family.

Reviews

[Sue Miz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let me share a story with you
A story of how this series saved my life

It was January 2019
The world has just learned about Covid but still no lockdown

By this time I was doing my Masters degree and was in a forced reading slump for 5 years before because of work and family

On the last week of January, a terrible accident happened to us where my youngest daughter went into a coma for one month during which the lock down occurred
I was to stay with her in the hospital since she went into a fetus state due to her TBI

One month is the hospital
Lockdown
No family support
My mind went crazy
My depression intensified
My insomnia was driving me to the brink of suicide
Seeing my daughter in this state
I did not know what to do
How to be strong for her
How to keep on

One day, I decided to pick up a book to read again
I ordered the throne of glass series not knowing anything about it
The Assassins Blade was the first book
And the phrase "my name is Sam Cortland and I will not be afraid" kept going on and on in my mind

Reading what Caelina then Aeline went through
How she overcame every hardship
How much I loved reading this book
How it kept me company during my darkest hours
How it was with me when my daughter woke up from her state
How it was with me during her after month rehab
And how it was with me when we happily went back home
"I will not be afraid"
This saved my life
My mind
My family
My sanity
This series will always own a piece of my ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘

[Fatima Fries · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series has got to be one of my favourites. The plot, characters and the character developments are absolutely perfect. This series just gets better and better !!! MUST READ

[alexa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Came for Dorian, almost left from Chaol, stayed for Rowan.

[Cheyenne (BookishByCheyenne) · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good.

[Meghan Caito · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here’s a ranking of my top five favorite characters from the series to celebrate the end:

1. Elide
2. Aelin
3. Lysandra
4. Dorian
5. Lorcan

[Joey · Rating 1 out of 5]

Her fae worshipping trait is not a hit for me like others. I hate her male worshipping tendencies so much that I've decided not to read any of her books again. I dnf'd the court of silver flames and I'm glad I did.

[channing b · Rating 5 out of 5]

These books were my life

[Melanie Maloney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I stayed up til 10:40 last night finishing Throne of Glass series. Hands down one of the best series I have EVER read! And now I feel empty inside and full at the same time. Im doing a reread of ACOTAR next. But I don’t know if I’ll ever find another series this good.

Highly recommend looking up the reading order and how to tandem read Emire of Shadows and Tower of Dawn. I personally think Assassin’s Blade needs to be read between books 3&4 and the tandem read is must for continuity of the story line.

To SJM, I am floored to know that you started writing this so young. This is what you were meant to do. Aelin and her crew’s story was an EPIC triumph. I laughed, I cried and I cheered out loud. And thank you for making such strong women too root for. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Mary-Rose Osborne · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books are not very good but very exciting

[Geo Just Reading My Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

A full 5 stars!! Great serie! I just loved it📖❤️📖

[Ruxandra Barbu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wrapping Up this masterpiece ~

📌RANKING THE BOOKS
1.Kingom of Ash - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🌟
2.Queen of Shadows - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
3.Empire of Storms - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🌠
4.Tower of Dawn - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🌠
5.Crown of Midnight - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
6.Heir of Fire - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
7.Assassins' Blade - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
8.Throne of Glass - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

YES YES ALL THE BOOKS ARE SOLID 5 stars for me and above. The last 4 books are beyond perfection and exceeding all normal rating rules.It is am ♾ 🌟 series for me. I will give it all constellations and even the whole cosmos !

So
over all
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐+ plot
🌄🌄🌄🌄🌄 + world building
🔮 🔮🔮🔮🔮 + magic system
🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♀️ + characters
❤❤❤❤❤ + love and relationships
💧💧💧💧💧 + tears
⚔⚔⚔⚔⚔ + action
0.5 🌶

📌RANKING THE FMCs
1.Manon
2.Aelin
3.Yrene
4.Lysandra
5.Elide
6.Nesryn
7.Ansel
8.Hasar
HONORABLE MENTIONS :
Asterin
Nehemia
Kaltain

📌RANKING THE MMCs
1.Dorian
2.Chaol
3.Lorcan
4.Fenrys
5.Rowan
6.Aedion
7.Sartaq
HONORABLE MENTIONS :
Sam
Gavriel

📌FAVORITE COUPLES
1.manon x dorian
2.lorcan x elide
3.chaol x yrene
4.aelin x rowan
5.nesryn x sartaq
6.lysandra x aedion

SO YES I LOVE EVERYBODY AND EVERYBODY TOGETHER!!!
Except Maeve, Erwan, Aerobynn THEY CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES BYE 👋🏻
NO EXPLANATIONS NEEDED BUT I WILL STILL DELIVER :

Aelin 💛 - she was here for the longest, she carries this whole series on her back, she has been thru a lot.But she was flawed too, first 4 books she was kinda arrogant and insufferable, she evolved a lot and i appreciate her for that.She is great! JUST NOT MY FAVORITE.I gotta give it to her tho, she is a great leader,worrior and strategist.👑

Manon 🤍 - yes her personality was not the best either, but why do i like her more? Cuz she really made a big change for herself, from a cruel heartless witch she became a warm more humane queen. She was strong Af, always had a soft spot for 4 things : the 13 and asterin, elide, dorian and Abraxos.
Amazing fighter and leader 👏🏻

Dorian 💙 - had a hard time liking him the first 3 books, because he could have been more useful for sure.But also he evolved a lot from just a spoiled protected princeling to a serios confident king 🤴🏻 I loved to see him coming to his true powers and taking the lead of his own life.He became an unstoppable force .

Chaol 🧡 - yes i know everyone hates him, but it could never be me. He was here from the beginning, he stayed consistent, he cared about his best friend, he cared about his kingdom, he did his best to cope with everything despite being a powerless human and he succeeded in the end.Yes he made mistakes, but everyone does.

Lorcan 🖤 - took me some time to warm up to him, but i just couldn't resist his cuteness despite his scary look towards elide .He is a protective bf and i was here for it .

Elide 💜 - She actually carried!!! Despite being weak and powerless, she thrived and did amazing things for her friends and for her cause.Respect

Lysandra 💚 - my lovely lady has been thru a lot too. Her character evolved and moved on from her past. She became a great worrior and i was her for her friendship with Aelin

Yrene 🩷 - did not expect her to be such an important and impactful character! I liked her personality and her determination. She worked hard to become what she is and without her the world would have been doomed

Nesryn 🤎 - yes maybe she was not as present and in the front as the others, but still she made a lot of difference in the war

Fenrys 🩵 - thanks to him Aelin stayed sane.
I wish i could have seen more of him, he had great potential.

Aedion 🩶 - well I dont hate him honestly. He is not my favorite around here, he made lots of mistakes too, but I know that deep down he is a decent male.He cared deeply about Aelin and the kingdom. If he treated Lysandra better he would be much higher.

Rowan ♡ - oh no ! i am adding Rowan now because I even forgot about him! Yes this is how relevant he was for me .I AM SORRY, I KNOW THIS OPINION IS GONNA RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS 🪶 but damn I really couldn't care less about him? From the start he was just the basic basic love interest - mean, cold and hateful, but quick to warm up to his true MATE.Idk i am kinda done with that.He ks strong for sure, has good powers, took care and loved Aelin for who she was and all that ... His personality is just bland and nothing special.He exists just to serve his gf and that's ok 👍🏻

[Leslie Sizemore · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first book club series ❤️ What a wild ride!

[Amber Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

ACOTAR vs TOG
TOG has way better characters but ACOTAR has a better moving plot. 

TOG was a great overall series but something of a slow burn (pun intended). This series is worth the read but it is a commitment, I'm an avid reader and it took me about 5.5 months. You also would need to read the books back to back because there are so many characters and details that would certainly be forgotten. It gave Game of Thrones vibes which I loved but also the series would benefit from a character map at the beginning of each book! 🤣

I highly recommend the tandem read of EOS and TOD. In my opinion, TOD was awful but I hate Chaol so I'm biased there. The tandem read helped me keep chugging along and made it fun to go back and forth between story lines. Kingdom of Ash is essentially a gigantic book with a different character's story line on each page which was interesting. Definitely my favorite book of the series!

Overall, I give the series 4.5 ⭐ because it was a great series, I don't regret reading it BUT it was a massive undertaking and I felt like several of the books could've really been condensed and the character development would still have been just as good. With that said character development is Maas's jam! The characters in book one, ceased to exist and were reborn so much better by the end of Kingdom of Ash. Truly a work of character art. 

All in all... loved it!

[Angie Lello · Rating 3 out of 5]

Throne of Glass Series: A Study in Highs, Lows, and Wasted Potential

Reading the Throne of Glass series was like being trapped on the world’s longest emotional rollercoaster — where half the time you’re screaming from excitement, and the other half you’re screaming because you’re stuck upside down in a morass of melodrama.

It starts strong enough: Assassin’s Blade shows flashes of the story this series could have been (or so I’m told bc I didn’t bother to read that shit after I was done with the first two books bc ain’t nobody got time for that). Throne of Glass and Crown of Midnight hint at a darker, grittier epic filled with betrayal, survival, and sharp edges. And then… the magic system gets dumped on us like a surprise ice bucket, and from there it’s an escalating parade of ridiculous plot twists, new characters every five pages, and dramatic last-minute saves that make no damn sense.

By the time we reach Queen of Shadows, it’s clear Sarah J. Maas wants to turn this into her sprawling magnum opus. And sure — there are still bright spots: Manon Blackbeak is a queen, Dorian actually has a compelling arc, Elide deserved the world, and even Lorcan was weirdly more interesting than half the “main” characters. But Aelin? Rowan? The endless self-important posturing, bad decision-making, and zero consequences? Yes queen, give us nothing.

Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn tried to patch the sinking ship — and honestly, Chaol’s storyline ended up being way more emotionally satisfying than it had any right to be. (Chaol and Yrene have more chemistry than Aelin and Rowan ever did, fight me.)

And then we get to Kingdom of Ash, a chaotic mess of a finale where every character from every side story gets wheeled back onto the stage for their final bow, whether we cared about them or not. Plot threads are rushed, character arcs are fumbled (Aedion’s “redemption” LOL), and even the epic battles can’t fully save it. Also, if you thought all the endless traveling and split POVs would pay off, think again.

The biggest frustration is that somewhere under the overwrought drama, overwrought journeys, and constant overwrought everything, there was a really good story — one that SJM couldn’t seem to tell without setting it on fire first.

The real MVPs? Manon. Dorian. The Thirteen. Elide. Lorcan. (And Fleetfoot, who at least knew to stay missing for most of the chaos.)

Final verdict: If you go into this series expecting a sleek assassin fantasy, you’ll be disappointed. If you go into it expecting a soap opera set in a medieval magic world — with dragons, witches, and way too much shirtless brooding — then you might just survive. Just don’t expect logic, and don’t get attached to character development. It’ll probably be thrown out a window by Book Five.

Three stars for the parts that kicked ass. Zero stars for the parts where Aelin decided to improvise again.

[Maggie Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first time I read the Throne of Glass series was right before I entered a dark period of extreme growth in my life. The first time I read these books they took a small part of my soul, reshaped it, and kept it safe. The part of my soul written by ‘I will not be afraid’ and ‘To whatever end Fireheart’ and ‘You do not yield’ This part of me came to me when I needed it most, but ultimately, stayed hidden. The second time I read the Throne of Glass series, I am looking towards a future that is fast approaching and holds huge life altering changes. In preparation, that subtle but powerful part of my soul that was safe and dry has returned at full force. My name is Maggie Lee and I will not be afraid, I will not yield. Throne of Glass has shaped me in ways I could not imagine, and the words and stories will stay with me as I move 1.5 thousand miles away from my home town. So, I encourage you, open your heart and let this series change your being.

[hiop · Rating 4 out of 5]

4th grade was too young to have started reading these i fear they damaged my tastes and standards in literature (especially fantasy) but oh they are ever so dear to me

(500yr old war criminal learning he prefers being a malewife is a crazy side plot sjm kinda in her bag for that one)

[kaylin :) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reread: yearly reread of the entire series. i love it more and more every time

[Lauren Stromgren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably the best series I’ve ever read. The character development was absolutely insane and so rewarding. I have never felt so connected to so many characters in a book and I could not stop reading!! This is a must read series, the main character is ✨inspirational ✨ and I love everything about these books. The only thing I would change is chapter 87 in KOA is that we were robbed at the end of the chapter!! Iykyk

[Deborrah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great characters and story lines.

[Ashley Herold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nothing will ever top ACATOR tho

[Juls · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don’t think anything will ever live up to this series and I think about it every day

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re read. Second read. I can't believe this series take place over the course of just a year, the timeline is insane. But I love it still

[Emily Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

All time favorite series, I wish I had read them slower, I can’t wait to reread them! Aelin is my favorite FMC to date!

[Pam Jurick · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read The Court of Thorns and Roses first….Five stars…The Throne of Glass Series was also Five Stars…What an ending!…Loved the characters too! I’ll be starting the Crescent Series soon…Can’t wait! This author amazes me with her writing, details and imagination…I am in awe of her talent…Seriously, this is the first fantasy series I have ever read…and Wow! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ across the board…

[Liya Aklil · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved these books. I loved the characters. I loved the plot. I was never bored.

[Samantha Lord · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best series of books I have read in YEARS. This version I had bought for my kindle had the Assassin's Blade last. I would have enjoyed it more had I read it first, or even third. I still loved it all! Love love love!!!

[Vanessa Valente · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the whole thing. tandem read included. I truly only got into this after book two. The first two were written by a very young person and it shows.

[Jaclyn Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Words cannot express the mix of emotions I felt as I reached the end of this remarkable series. With eight novels and countless hours spent immersed in its pages (audible, in my case), bidding farewell to this world is a literary hangover. The depth and magic of this book series are unparalleled. As an avid Harry Potter fan, it stands shoulder-to-shoulder with my all-time favorite fantasy novels. Sarah J. Maas undoubtedly outdid herself in many aspects.

The level of intricacy in the characters, stories, and the seamless weaving of every element was incredible. Nothing was overlooked, and everything converged flawlessly in a symphonic finale. Maas skillfully brought together an array of characters, histories, and their intertwined fates. The most beautiful part is you often don’t see her setting it up!

I did feel a slight disconnect with the ending here. One lead character and their final victory over a lead antagonized felt somewhat effortless. Also, while I loved the female power and leadership, it at times felt too overtly emphasized and I felt would have been just as strong without the sometimes dismissive tone towards male characters.

Setting aside those minor things, the character development throughout the series was just unparalleled and I think what make this series exceptional. Aelin's journey, her struggles, and the realistic portrayal of how trauma shapes her character were masterfully executed. It is this depth that makes the series so captivating. Each book delves into themes of grief, guilt, self-discovery, and resilience.

While Aelin takes center stage, and Chaol receives a dedicated book for his personal growth, it is Dorian who stole my heart. He's often overlooked but remains a steadfast and relatable character. His transformation, particularly his quest for self-acceptance beyond comparisons, struck a chord. His journey, including the complexities of his relationship with his father, was captivating

I can’t seem to find the words to cover everything in a review. All I can say is that I adore this series and the themes of friendship, forgiveness, and the importance of not succumbing to fear. Fear can ensnare and corrupt, but loyalty and love for family, friends, and community can empower us to transcend darkness.

[Hope Goldman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This kept my attention all the way through, but I definitely had my issues with it. I accidentally read the prologue first and am grateful I did because otherwise many of the ways certain characters show up in the book would have been even more of a case of Deus ex Machina than they were with that previous knowledge.

In the prologue, Celaena is depicted as the best assassin in all the world and yet even in the first book, Dorian surprises her by literally walking in her room. This is just one example of many where the author just does what she wants to progress the story the way she wants. There are also many moments in the book that are supposed to be a big reveal, but are totally predictable. There were a few satisfying moments, though, such as the scene with Nesryn and the kharankui. It's set up to the be this grand epic, but in the end kind of fell flat for me. Book 4 was definitely the peak of the series for me.

Also, why does every single character need to couple up?

All of that being said, this book is like candy. It's saccharin, and I gobbled it up.

[Kayla Little · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series changed my life. Favourite of all time and i don't that will ever change. The thing that makes this series incredible is the character building. You journey with the FMC through utter triumphs, harrowing devestation, crushing pain but to meet all that pain and devestation is incredible love stories through friendship and soulmates. The other thing i love about this series is the love SJM gives to her side characters. Every character is precious to me, even the few that irk me at times. This is a fantasy with a romance subplot not like Acotar which is predominantly romance.