Celaena is an assassin with soul.
I am going to meet Sarah J. Maas this week. Therefore, last Friday I bought two of her books (the other one was A Court of Thorns and Roses) and dedicated my weekend to read in order to go to the event with a little gist of her work. This book worked perfectly well for my purpose.
Celaena is invited to fight in a tournament that it would look like The Hunger Games except for the fact that the other opponents are being killed by something that's lurking in the dark and no one knows what. The perfect writing style invites to dive into Celaena's adventures with attention to details. The writing is simple, easy to understand and it should be: in a world where magic remains but it is abolished and the users of such thing are sentenced to death, there is no way that the writing can be complex and give you a headache with the amount of new vocabulary.
The final chapters are heartbreaking: the final duel results in pain, broken bones and deaths - even from other worlds. Usually, there is a need to rush this events because the book is about to finish, but I didn't feel that with this book, which was extraordinary. Flying from Celaena's point of view, to Chaol's and to Dorian's, the final scenes were amazingly well-written.
The mythology is introduced to us with small details here and there, which allows the reader the opportunity to understand what it is about but without further explanations of the characters: they do it and then we understand what happened.
The next book is Crown of Midnight. I can't wait to see what happens to Celaena.
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