Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Ugh, I tried. It's an interesting idea and all that, and could have been a good story, but I just can't get into the main character. She's not believable. And neither are the other two corners of her love triangle (the prince and the captain). She's supposed to be this notorious assassin, but she doesn't have a hardened, dark, conflicted, or menacing bone in her body. She gets excited about candy and puppies for crying out loud. There are not nearly enough examples of cold calculation or searing flashbacks or nightmares or self-loathing struggles that you would expect a youngish girl to have if they've spent traumatic years training and earning a living as an assassin. Am I right? If Maas could make me believe that Celaena is the troubled and conflicted assassin that she claims to (and should) be, I might read on. But it just seems like she created the same old love triangle formula and then slapped the label "assassin" on it to make it more interesting. But didn't really follow-through.
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