Crown of Midnight basically starts off a little while after Throne of Glass ended. It starts with Celaena sneaking around somewhere, you don't really know. She sneaks inside a bedroom and is about to kill a person when he wakes up and she lifts her blade. I don't have the book anywhere near me right now so I can't double check, but I think that that was the prologue, and it ended when she raised her blade and was about to kill him. I think this prologue was really well written in a mysterious way. You didn't really know where she was, but you understood that she was on a mission from the king - since she became his Champion in the end of the first book. The title Champion was just another name for the King's Assassin. So she was on a mission to kill somebody, on the King's order.
Even though Celaena's an assassin I really liked it how Sarah J. Maas still made Celaena a girl with a conscious. Because out of all the people the King had ordered her to kill she hadn't murdered a single one of them. When she had found the person she was supposed to kill she had given them a choice; either she would kill them, or they would fake their own deaths, leave this city, travel far away and never use their true name ever again. In order to save their own lives all of them had faked their own deaths and escaped the cities they lived in and travelled far away from there - as Celaena had commanded.
But no one knew about this; she couldn't tell anyone. If the King found out that she wasn't doing her job he would kill Chaol, then Nehemia, and then Nehemia's entire family. So instead Celaena collected body parts from outside a place where they threw corpses (from some healing place I think it was) and took heads from people that looked as similar as possible to the people she was supposed to kill. Then she brought them with her to show the king so he would believe that she had killed them.
Also there was a group of rebels who the King suspected were going to try to make an uprising. So he ordered Celaena to kill them and gave her a month to do so. But Celaena happened to know one of the persons she was supposed to kill, so she gave him the month to fake his own death and leave, but also to give her information about the group of rebels, so she would know what she was dealing with - and if the King was right about the group, or if it was just some rumor.
Also there was a group of rebels who the King suspected were going to try to make an uprising. So he ordered Celaena to kill them and gave her a month to do so. But Celaena happened to know one of the persons she was supposed to kill, so she gave him the month to fake his own death and leave, but also to give her information about the group of rebels, so she would know what she was dealing with - and if the King was right about the group, or if it was just some rumor.
All of this happening just made me want to read more and more. Because there wasn't only the problems with killing people. At the same time Elena had given Celaena missions in the castle, other things were happening; a riddle had to be solved in order to find out how the King had conquered so many parts of Erilea in such short time, and why all the magic had disappeared as that happened.
And also, in Throne of Glass, Dorian and Celaena ended things romantically, and in this book there is also a lot of drama around that. Things like "Do they still love each other" and "Will Celaena fall for someone else" or "Will they both move on", and it's just really fun to read.
And also, in Throne of Glass, Dorian and Celaena ended things romantically, and in this book there is also a lot of drama around that. Things like "Do they still love each other" and "Will Celaena fall for someone else" or "Will they both move on", and it's just really fun to read.
I seriously cannot describe my feelings for this book. I won't tell anything more about the plot line, because this is a review WITHOUT SPOILERS from this book. Although you kind of have to have read the first book to understand anything in this entry... The things above are only a little more detailed than what the description on the book tells, so the few things I've "spoiled" aren't exactly real spoilers.
But however, this book was so amazing, better than the first one. And from what I've heard from my sister, the third book is going to be even better! Was there anything I didn't like about the book? No, actually not. I loved everything, there was nothing that disturbed me or made me not want to read the book. The character's weren't perfect either, and that I loved.
Everything in this book was filled with mystery. There was always more to know, to find out. Both about the characters, and about the plot. Like for example; If you found out one thing, that could lead to another thing that would give the story even more meaning, and then that thing could lead into something even more interesting that would make even more sense. So yeah, this book was pretty amazing, one of the best books I've ever read so far in my life.
I would give it a 9/10 (I'm saving the 9.5 and the 10 for the next books, since there will be six books in total). But seriously, if you haven't started to read the Throne of Glass series you have to. It's one of the few series that I'm telling you guys that you really have to read. It's just so freaking fantastic!
Everything in this book was filled with mystery. There was always more to know, to find out. Both about the characters, and about the plot. Like for example; If you found out one thing, that could lead to another thing that would give the story even more meaning, and then that thing could lead into something even more interesting that would make even more sense. So yeah, this book was pretty amazing, one of the best books I've ever read so far in my life.
I would give it a 9/10 (I'm saving the 9.5 and the 10 for the next books, since there will be six books in total). But seriously, if you haven't started to read the Throne of Glass series you have to. It's one of the few series that I'm telling you guys that you really have to read. It's just so freaking fantastic!
~ Filippa ~
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