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The villain/hero swap!

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

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This was compulsively readable, and it is by far the most I’ve ever enjoyed anything Sarah J. Maas has written (previously that dubious honor went to the third Throne of Glass book, which now that I come to think of it, this book is very similar to). Her writing style continues to work much better in the first person, and I was actually super impressed at how this book basically dismantles everything you thought you knew about the first book. I find it ballsy of her to just completely write off a romantic hero she spent an entire book building […]

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4/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:44 |

Longer is not better

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

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OH GOD I DID IT. Just like that, Throne of Glass is finally freaking over. I thought this day would never come and now that it’s here (well, passed, I finished this last week) I can’t quite believe it. Another Sarah J. Maas series is in the books (hah!) and you know what, I hate it less than A Court of Thorns and Roses. Kingdom of Ash is LONG, y’all. I got a look at it in a bookstore where I giggled as I pointed it out to my mom and this tome puts Feast for Crows to shame. It is a lot of book […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

Thank You, Next: Throne of Glass

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas Finished March 19, took 12 days to read 3 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Young Adult Rating: 2/3 Young Adult I had incredibly high hopes for this series as I devoured Sarah Maas’s other series: A Court of Thorn and Roses. Unfortunately, Throne of Glass did not draw me quite as quickly. I can’t quite put my finger on why, as there were a lot of similarities between the two first books of each series. We meet Celaena, an imprisoned assassin who is working off her sentence (for what, we don’t know and actually […]

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3/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Yeah I’m gonna do it

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas

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Maybe I like these books because for the most part I read in snippets – on the train, at lunch, on the train again, while my fiance plays FIFA. A lot of my day to day reading gets done in ten to fifteen minute bursts and basically any book I’ve picked up by Sarah J. Maas really suits that lifestyle. The writing is fairly simple and their plots are convoluted without being particularly complex. The mothership once described the modern Nikita as being the perfect gym show because it was exciting and entertaining without requiring all of your attention. In that […]

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2/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

I liked this??????

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

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I was already poised to like this book, past feelings about Sarah J. Maas aside. It’s a Beauty and the Beast/Ballad of Tam Lin hybrid retelling, and unless you make some sort of grave mistake, you’ve already got the outline of the story ready to go (tried and true over hundreds of years and variations), and it’s pretty hard to mess that up. And she doesn’t! I thought the story worked well as a combo B&B/Tam-Lin/original elements mish-mash. The first half is mostly Beauty and the Beast (more the traditional fairy-tale than the Disney movie, with elements like her father being a […]

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1/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Oh h*ck I’m gonna buy the whole series

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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A wiser Cannonballer than I described Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series as great hangover reads and I was tempted to extend that to her Throne of Glass series but these aren’t so much “stall your pain” as “forget the world”. And with the way the world is right now, I could do with a whole lot of forgetting. Again, I reiterate, these books are not good. Yet somehow I can’t put them down. I start reading and look up and HOURS have passed and I’ve been filling my brain with empty calories and I’m still hungry. I can easily […]

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1/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

This book is definitely extra.

Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7) by Sarah J. Maas

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I have so many THOUGHTS about this book that I am going to go the other route and only hit the highlights. I am already ten reviews behind and I’m not going to have time today to write them all, so I might honestly have to declare REVIEW AMNESTY and start fresh in the new year. (Although there are some books I really want to actually review.) Here are my thoughts in no particular order: This book was TOO LONG. 992 pages is about two hundred pages longer, almost three hundred, than the biggest book in this series, and I […]

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12/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:168 |

I do this to myself, eyes wide open

Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

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I’ve laid out my feelings on Sarah J. Maas books. And I feel like – unlike with the Court of Thorns and Roses – the consensus here about Throne of Glass is pretty clear. They nestle comfortably somewhere just below a love/hate. It would take more energy than they’re worth to either love or hate them, but they are the good of bad writing. You don’t want to read them, but you also can’t put them down. And so it is with Tower of Dawn. I’m not going to bother trying to come up with the names of most of the proper nouns because […]

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12/18/2018 's CBR10 Review No:136 |


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