Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas
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Re: Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas
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Anyhow, let's talk about the characters first. Starting off with the main character - Celaena. With the first few books, Maas goes quite well - we feel the youngish sixteen-year-old character. My main problem is that as the series progresses, and overall, Celaena is so unlikable. She's rude, she's arrogant and bossy. We see nearly no character development from her. Really don't know what there is to like about her. Eventually I started to look forward to other character PoVs. Don't even get me started on their first meeting with Darrow. Despite Maas' attempts to paint him as a power-hungry noble, his reaction is quite the legitimate and normal one. Who would roll over and accept an inexperienced teenager as your monarch in such a dangerous time?
I actually ended up liking the side characters the best - Chaol, Lysandra, Yrene.
Alright, pacing. The series, and each book individually, felt like a marathon to get through. A lot of the time, what was happening wasn't really substantial. It felt like the author kept cutting between PoVs, as if to hide that even. What was happening between scenes didn't feel engaging or interesting.
I'll skim over it, but mention the fact that Maas makes loads of mistakes medieval-realism wise, even taking magic into account. A few examples of these are for example the sizes of the armies at the end (even with magic, the amount of supplies they would need dwarfs the available supply of food available), the fact that Celaena can shoot someone who's been riding away for 20 minutes and a slew of other things. The worst crime is Aedion's leadership of the army.
I feel like a lot of things were pulled out of nowhere in the last few books. Personally I feel like Maas somewhat wrote herself into a corner, so she had to spend a whole book (Tower of Dawn) getting another army and also making up a whole bunch of myths that reappeared to save the day. Lots of fairly common cliches at the end as well. Maas can write court intrigue and drama decently, but definitely not battles.
I definitely won't be rereading the series and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. There are plenty of authors in the genre that are far better at anything Maas wrote.
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I got as far as page 10. Now, keep in mind, I've reread Tower of Dawn, Kingdom of Ash, and a few other books later in this series and loved them. I just couldn't enjoy the first one.
For one, there was a ridiculous amount of exclamation points in the first chapter. Does that even make sense? Why do you need three exclamation points per page? It grated on my nerves so much that I just stopped reading. I know it sounds like a small thing, but it was so annoying.
I read this book before, and loved it. My tastes have changed, but I would still recommend it to anyone who likes this genre
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