I feel like for the best assassin in Adarlan she should be like… less stupid? The whole book is just a following on every mistake she made, falling for traps that have big red warning signs above them, trusting Arobynn like 4 times too often and generally being a little naive. I am honestly a little disappointed since I would have liked to see how she became so ruthless and brilliant and not seeing her fail most of the time. But it was nice to have a little more backstory to the little anecdotes you get in TOG.

This was a solid one. Not good, but also not bad. While the concept of looking deeper into Aelins backstory caught my attention pretty early on, the execution was a little underwhelming. I expected an in-depth look at her past, the trials and tribulations that made her become an assassin and inevitably become blinded and tricked by her late master Arobynn. But this book was just a compilation of different missions she tackled as her alter ego Celaena, when she already thought of herself as the baddest of all Assassins and after the third novella that just became tiring. I think out of all the compiled stories, I liked the one with Ansel the most since that was the first time Celaena truly got humbled. Oh, and what truly annoyed me was the constant use of the title "Adarlans Assassin" as a means to say, "Oh, Celaena is a badass that can't be defeated.". It was just overused and therefore lost its power. All in all, I just realised at some point that there's nothing too exciting about this collection of novellas, and you can skip this one unless you're a die-hard Throne Of Glass fan.

Yes. This book is good. And reading it first I think is a good start into this series. However:It was a slow start. My main points of criticism that I want to mention lay in the characters. We get it. She is spoiled and good at what she does. It is not the typical MC for Maas I think. But unfortunately it was a bit hard for me to believe the love story of her and Sam. He was TOO sweet and too little character. And the fact that they are both. INCREDIBLY young made it even harder. Typically for Sarah J. Maas the last 100 pages had me on the edge of the seat. Thank god for that. Although many things very quite predictable. Sadly.

no one talk to me. "Well, I care what you think of me. I care enough that I stayed at this disgusting party just for you. And I care enough that I'd attend a thousand more like it so I can spend a few hours with you when you aren't looking at me like I'm not worth the dirt beneath your shoes."

5 Sterne Habe das Buch jetzt nach dem 2. Throne of Glass Roman gelesen. Ich fand die 5 Geschichten super. Man hat Celaena besser kennengelernt und einige Sachen aus ihrer Vergangenheit, die bisher nur angeschnitten, oder nur erwähnt wurden, wurden erklärt. Es gab all them feels. Einige “ok typisch Celaena”, echt fiese Twists und absoluten Verrat, n bisschen cutesy Füßchen strampeln…