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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)

by Sarah J. Maas (Goodreads Author)

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" This book was another great read by Sarah j mass. It was set in the the fictional land or Erilea, which is inside the kingdom of Adarlan. The kingdom has a lot of woods, a river, and some mountains. They have a huge giant glass castle also that one o This book was another great read by Sarah j mass. It was set in the the fictional land or Erilea, which is inside the kingdom of Adarlan. The kingdom has a lot of woods, a river, and some mountains. They have a huge giant glass castle also that one of the main characters is the prince of. The place they live used to have a bunch of magic and fae, which are faeries, livening there.The king of the land banned magic from Adarlan and all the nearby kingdoms. And the fae moved up north to the unexplored lands. The book starts out at the prison endovier where the main character, Calena, was taken for being an assassin. Then the prince takes her to the glass castle where she will compete for thirteen weeks against a bunch of men to be “the King’s champion.”
The main character that the story is told through her point of view is Calena saradothien. She is a trained assassin. She became an assassin because her parents died when she was eight so she was on her own. She got really sad one day and jumped into a frozen river where abboryn found her and trained her to be an asassin. With her training she was super strong mentally and physically and also really pretty. But when she went to prison she lost a lot of that and had to be trained again by Choal who is another main character. He is the kings best friend and also the captain of the guard. He is determined and strong willed just like Calena. He likes to work and he is in great physical shape. He is responsible and has duties to accomplish as the captain that make Calena appreciate him more. She starts to feel some things for choal. Also another main character is The crown prince Dorian. He gets Calena in the beginning of the book from the prison to have her be his contestant in the competition of being the kings champion. That would just allow her to basically do the Kong’s dirty work for him and be his assassin instead of the kind she used to be. Dorian is a very charming man and is confident. He likes to wear cloaks and is very handsome. He loves reading as does Calena. He thinks Calena will win the contest for him, and once she does she gets to be the champion for four years then is free. Another important character is princess Nehemia who is from another kingdom. Calena and her become friends quickly. They both feel like they kind of don’t fit in in the castle setting. Calena agreed to teach her what she knows about the language they use in Adarlan and Nehemia to teach her a witch language. Also lady Kaitlin who is with duke perrigntion who is the kings closest adversary. Duke perrignton also has a great contestant that Calena faces in the final round of the competition. Kaitlin doesn’t like Calena because Dorian likes Calena. Also during Thais whole competition there are contestants during right before challenges. Calena tried to figure out what is doing the killing and eventually finds out that somehow a portal was opened by magic and it let a bad creature in. She also meets the ghost of the first queen who’s name is Elana. Elana helps her win the competition in the end and she finds out that duke perrigntons contestant Cain was the one who opened the portal.

I really enjoyed this book. It was one of my favorites I have read this year. I love fantasy books because of the lands that are made in them. Even though some tod the names in the land are hard to figure out sometimes I still think it is crazy awesome how someone can come up with a whole new world basically and people to live in it. I like how Calena was a girl assassin and was able to do so many things and was so skilled. I think it’s great how she beat all of the boys in the contests. It really showed off some girl power. I like how strong she was as a character and her confidence was great. I think it is amazing all the things she has went through and still survived and kept fighting to win and be the best. I also like these subtle romance that she had with choal and Dorian. I think Sarah is great at writing relationships and such between characters. I think it is cool how she had to retrain herself to be as strong and as skilled as she used to be and she was determined enough to do it so she could win. Dorian was also a great character because I liked how charming he was but also he was good to Calena. He was the best prince that I have ever read about. I also liked choal a fight and how he trained Calena and got her back up to par. I’m not sure whether I liked choal or Dorian better. I think I’m going to have to read the rest of the series to find out. I also thought it was cool how nehemia and Calena became friends through teaching each other languages. I think that their friendship was a really good one. I like how Sarah writes in good friends as well as romance stuff. I also liked the whole secret passages thing because I think that any book that involves a castle or manor should have secret passages. I also liked how Calena made friends with the ghost of queen Elana. I think it was cool how Elana basically saved her at the end from losing the competition by taking the poison out of her body with magic. I love books that have magic involved also. I think it is really cool how magic is used in the work that Sarah wrote even though it is supposed to be banned in the kingdom. I think the portal thing was a really cool idea also. How the bad creatures from another dimension could come through was really cool actually. I’m just glad that Calena got it taken care of in the end even though a bad creature bit her. I think everything in the book was handled really well. Sarah got everything she needed to accomplished and told a really entertaining and intriguing tale. It kept my attention the whole time. I really enjoyed her style of writing also. She definitely writes some of the best characters in the game. She is great at getting you connected to the characters and their relationships with other characters. She has a great mind to come up with a lot of things that she does. I also really like a lot of the words that she uses. Because they sound cool and mean whatever point she is trying to get across. She has one of my favorite writing styles.

I think the kind of person that would enjoy this book is someone who likes to go on adventures through great characters. People who like action and a tale of someone working for something so they can get what they want. If you like strong female characters I would recommend this book to you. They enjoy reading books about a challenge that the characters had to face. People that liked the hunger games would also probably enjoy reading this book.also the people who like when a main character has two love interests and they like to try and guess which one she will pick they would like this book. People who probably enjoy working out would like this book cause they would feel like they could maybe relate to the stuff that Calena does. People who have ever trained for something like a sport would also be able to enjoy and relate to Calena in her training with choal. People who believe in ghosts would enjoy this book because Camden become friends with a ghost like I said in the last. Or if your a person who likes 1-
Watching those ghost showed on tv maybe you would enjoy this book. People who just like competing with other people in general would maybe like this book. Definitely people who enjoy handsome Maine male characters because Sarah is great at writing them. They would definitely enjoy this book. I think the age range of people that would enjoy/ read this book would probably be between 14-29. Because 14 year olds could comprehend everything that is going on and be able to appreciate the writing and also the characters. And this is a good book that’s isnt to immature for a Young adult book and I think some older teens and people in their twenties would be able to enjoy it also. Sarah is good at writing things that a people of a variety of ages could enjoy and relate to some things even tho it is in a fantasy work with magic and dangerous fantasy creatures. I think the purpose that Sarah writes this for was to entertain people. I think she writes to keep people’s want for magic to exist to keep going. Everyone needs a little something that they wish existed. Her writing makes you think that the work would be fun to live in but also a hassle. I think she also maybe wanted to teach the lesson that just because you quite doing something you were good at doesn’t mean you can never be as good as you dudes to be. It is trying to teach you that you can work at it and be restored to your former glory. I decided to read this book because I’ve heard a lot of great things about Sarah and read a couple of her books. I like the setting that she tells her stories and the magic she has in her stories. All of it is so well thought out and wraps up together nicely at the end of her stories. I knew that by reading this book I would be going on an adventure with her characters that I knew would be written great. I also like getting to know all the characters that she writes. Fantasy books are one of my favorite genres easily and therefore I knew there would be a great chance of me likening the book anyway. I would definitely recommend the book to myself again as well as someone else. It is a cool story and pretty darn entertaining. I would definitely read it again. ...more "

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“His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.”
― Warsan Shire

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“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
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“Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?

What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?

What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?

Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”
― Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

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