Okay, I bought into the way the plot was described to me. "16 criminals must undergo trials in which they will either become the king's defenders or die."
And after reading it, I started thinking about what I like about this book. And I realized that it was nonsense. Everything was done very badly here
The plot here is 40%, the rest is the bragging of the main character, how dangerous she is, that with one toothpick she will kill the entire Saruman army, and they won't even have time to blink. Okay, I'm exaggerating, Saruman's not there. God willing, the trials will be described on at least six pages, and not like this: "One more test passed, and the other dropped out," although the ball occupied 20 pages. Is this a story about trials or about princes and princesses?
Celaena Sardothien turned out to be a heroine who is infuriating. She is a dangerous killer in name only, but otherwise behaves like a little girl who loves chocolate and puppies. Did the author even understand that if a character is called a dangerous killer, does this mean that he must be cold-blooded? There is also the most useless character, Kaltain. The chapters with her are just filling the void, because they do not develop her in any way, and she herself does nothing for the plot. The only thing we know about her now is that she has headaches. The only character I liked was Chaol, because he was the most adequate.
The text is written in an average way. The descriptions of the dresses are the same, but they take up large paragraphs, and the rest is described in a very dry and boring way
This book was terrible and the only reason why it shot like that is because it is the first of such fantasy books.
P,S, And this book is also very predictable.
by mystery5009
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I hated everything about this book. Largely because the tournament of assassins was so overdone at that point, and also because FMC spent the entire time obsessing over dresses rather than actually doing her job. I read the following 3 novels in the series as trashy airplane reads, but stopped once colonization became a huge romanticized plot point. ACOTAR is even worse somehow.
DNF for me. Bugs the crap out of me when dreaded assassins or brutal killers are ….not.