Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament – fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin’s heart be melted?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Imprint: Bloomsbury UK
Publication date: 02/08/2012
Series: Throne of Glass v1

Throne of Glass
By Sarah J Maas
Review by Sam
A fantastic first entry to the series, Maas (who wrote this book when she was 15!) does a masterful job of creating a gripping thrill-ride of a story. It works well as a standalone novel but you will inevitably want to read the rest of her work.