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A rollercoaster of frustration, eyerolling, and morbid curiosity

Throne of Glass series: Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn, The Assassin's Blades (novellas) by Sarah J. Maas

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One of my goals this year is to read more fantasy by female authors. I will not declare this to be an exclusive goal (if the next Martin or Rothfuss or Lynch or Staveley novel is punished I will devour it with no guilt whatsoever). But as a woman trying to write fantasy, I want to see more what is being published by my female peers. This also may lead to less obnoxious grim-dark fantasy, which sounds great to me. My reading choices are also currently limited to what I can find in my city’s libraries–and because I’m lazy, this […]

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5/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

Is She Just Going to Get a New Potential Love Interest Each Book?

Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

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Why does Empire Strike Back work so well? Because each side story that one of the main characters is on is interesting and well-thought out. If Luke had gone to Dagobah and Han and Leia stayed brooding on the Falcon and moping about Luke being gone, and then there was a random story about a previously unknown Sith lord hanging out with his mean Stormtrooper friends, there would be no international phenomenon today. Anyways, this long and drawn out metaphor is how I feel about Heir of Fire. Celaena (are we still calling her that?) goes off on a fun […]

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2/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |

I feel like this series maybe is holding me hostage and I have Stockholm Syndrome for it.

Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5) by Sarah J. Maas

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Firstly, this book is bonkers. Secondly, Sarah J. Maas is not the author for me, a 32 year old person. The prose is out of control overwritten to impress and be MEANINGFUL. The characters pair up like lobsters and it is overwhelmingly heterosexual, which just makes me roll my eyes. Really, all these characters you just so happened to create just happen to find their soulmate or whatever and get together by the end? Really? This is the same thing that annoyed me out of reading Marissa Meyer by the end of Winter. It was just so CUTESY. Apparently I […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:116 |

It’s a love/hate relationship.

Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4) by Sarah J. Maas

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Despite its numerous flaws, it seems I actually like this series quite a bit now. Sigh. A lot of the problems I had with this series are still there, but if I’m going to keep reading it, at some point I’m going to have to acknowledge that no one is holding a gun to my head and making me do that, and that some part of me is enjoying it enough to push past all the stuff that annoys me. At that point, it just seems hypocritical to spend the entire review moaning about what I don’t like when it’s […]

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9/14/2017 's CBR9 Review No:81 |

I liked this one???

Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3) by Sarah J. Maas

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Honestly, I did not expect to like this book. It’s only logical. I assumed that I would have the same reaction to it that I had for the first three books in the series, which was basically to be entertained, but also half the time I’m rolling my eyes at the predictable plot twists, the shallow characters, the tell-not-show and idiom-filled writing (a symptom of weak worldbuilding). I just didn’t find any of it particularly compelling, especially Celaena, the central character. I found her to be uninteresting as a character, and worse, an uninteresting character wasting a great backstory. But […]

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8/29/2017 's CBR9 Review No:63 |

I liked this better two months ago.

Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

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This book has definitely soured on me since I finished it in May, which is a shame since I am quite literally about to start the third book tonight. This series for me has turned out so far to be a shoddily written, cliché-packed, predictable behemoth with an uninteresting not-as-smart-or-talented-as-she-or-the-author-thinks-she-is protagonist. It’s very much a yo-yo book for me. One minute I’ll be rolling my eyes so hard I’m about to sprain my optical nerve, the next Maas writes something genuinely interesting. Also, both books of hers I’ve read now fall into the same traps. They start out pretty dull, […]

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6/21/2017 's CBR9 Review No:44 |

Get it together, Maas

Empire of Storms by Sarah J Maas

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At the end of Queen of Shadows, the King of Adarlan has been killed, Prince Dorian is going to be the king, Aelin and her court are on their way to Terrasen to take her crown, Kaltain has blown up the dungeons of Morath, and Manon has rescued Elide. For some reason, I felt like the story was over. As it happens, it wasn’t and that annoyed me. I read Empire of Storms under a cloud of annoyance. I probably could have shaken it off if I had known this was the last book in the series, but it is […]

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6/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:42 |

For a legendary assassin, she spends a whole lot of time NOT killing people

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

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3.5 stars I put off reading this for the longest time, mainly because I figured I’d have to go back and read the first one, Throne of Glass, again to remember what happened, what with having read that way back in early 2013. But then the lovely Narfna tipped me off about this website, which allowed me to quickly recap all the stuff I only vaguely remembered, and I no longer had an excuse not to read it and it fit into my Monthly Keyword Challenge for April. Oh yeah, this is book 2 in a series. It doesn’t really […]

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5/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:41 |


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