So I am in two mind sets over this book. I have read other people’s reviews stating how they can’t stand Celaena and her holy than thou, I’m the best blah, blah, blah. But what you have to take into consideration is that she is an 18 year old girl that for her short life existence has had it rough. Her parents died from what we can glimpses of horribly, then at the age of 8 she gets saved if you can call it that by Arobynn the King of Assassin’s, who for ten years told her over and over again that she was the best. Now when a young girl who has experienced something terrible, finally has some sort of a semblance of life and is told the same thing over and over again yes of course that is what she is going to know and believe. Yes it can be over bearing at times but you need to look deep inside the girl and see that in a way she has been brainwashed.
But what I found to be the most frustrating about this book was the way she was with the Prince Dorian and the Captain Chaol. You can tell that from the very beginning that Dorian had an attraction to her even when Celaena was covered in filth from the Endovier Salt Mines, but as they bonded and grew closer he eventually feel in love with her, he even admitted it to himself that he did and would do whatever it took to protect her even going against his Father the King. Celaena had similar feelings towards Dorian as well I would go as far as saying love but it wouldn’t have been far. But then she becomes the Champion and she goes stubborn and selfish and says they can’t be together as in 4 years she will be free and has never been free. But then she is flirting with Chaol. So I’m a little confused and frustrated , did she really like Dorian or was it all a lie.
“No fair maiden should die alone,” he said, putting a hand on hers. “Shall I read to you in your final moments? What story would you like?”
She snatched her hand back. “How about the story of the idiotic prince who won’t leave the assassin alone?”
“Oh! I love that story! It has such a happy ending, too—why, the assassin was really feigning her illness in order to get the prince’s attention! Who would have guessed it? Such a clever girl. And the bedroom scene is so lovely—it’s worth reading through all of their ceaseless banter!”
I just loved this banter between Dorian and Celaena and I was a little disappointed at the end when things didn’t work out between them. But fingers are crossed that in the next book, everything will work out.
Caleana Sardothien, young assassin, is betrayed and sentenced to the Salt Mines of Endovier a slave camp. After a year, a Prince and Captain of The Guard come and offer her an opportunity for her freedom, win a contest to become the King's Champion, then after a four-year contract, she will be free and very rich to do with whatever she likes in her life. No more Arobynn’s Assassins, no more Salt Mines a free woman to do as she wills. Celaena thinks she's stumbled upon an opportunity of a lifetime but she soon realizes that things are not what they seem. Someone or something is killing off the other champions, in a gruesome and horrible way.
Between training with Chaol Westfall the Captain of The Guard, trying to keep herself from being killed, from being eliminated from the tests, and Dorian Havilliard the Prince and Celaena being attracted to each other things are becoming difficult and a much higher price then Celaena had being willing to pay.
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