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The Assassin's Blade The Throne of Glass Novellas
Reviews
![Photo of Allison](https://assets.literal.club/user/fallback-avatars/avatar_12.jpg?size=100)
Loved! The third novella absolutely broke my heart. As did the fifth one. Such amazing character and world building. So glad I read it first.
![Photo of Karen](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cm64efj5n022n0i203xox6teb.jpg?size=100)
I am dead inside
![Photo of Cameron Gleeson](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl80dchfj00d40i0150jgc2k7.jpg?size=100)
i am heart broken.
![Photo of Hannah Alexander](https://assets.literal.club/user/fallback-avatars/avatar_13.jpg?size=100)
SOBBING
![Photo of rain adrastea](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clr38hbkq01210i15e41s04h5.jpg?size=100)
once i figured out how to undoom him from the narrative the wedding is BACK ON!
![Photo of Allysen](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clk6u74rs01940iy93ya170lg.jpg?size=100)
soooo good. I definitely loved going back in time after knowing information ab the characters and stuff. Reading it 3rd was def a good call ONTO THE NEXT
![Photo of Frankie Fleming](https://assets.literal.club/user/fallback-avatars/avatar_12.jpg?size=100)
Good… but I wanted more!! Excited for sequels
![Photo of julie reads](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cm2uw18ne00sb0i20cx9mht57.jpg?size=100)
i cared more about sam in one book than i have for anyone else halfway through the series. i knew it was coming and still wasn’t prepared for it. if i were her, i would’ve killed myself romeo and juliet style idc.
![Photo of Janice Walker](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl5spfb6d000r0h077bjx0vz9.jpeg?size=100)
Meh
![Photo of Isabelle](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cljdvob1c01as0iy030gdc6sx.jpg?size=100)
I read AB as the 4th book in the series and I'm glad I did. I've had people recommend me to read it as the first of third(which I probably would have liked as well) book in the series but I was too much into the story to read this book after CoM.
While I thought the first couple of short stories were a bit boring sometimes, I really enjoyed learning about Celaena's past. In the three books I've read, there were multiple things hinted from her past (like stealing an Asterion mare or spending time in the Red desert) and I really liked that I already sort of knew how these things affected Celaena.
I think that I wouldn't have enjoyed this book as much if I had read it as the first book in the series, simply because I wouldn't have had an idea of Celaena herself and her 'mysterious' backstory in Rifthold. I also think it adds to your reading experience if you already know she's originally from Terrassen, even if (SPOILER) you don't know she's Aelin yet.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book, even if at some points it was a bit to slow for my liking.
![Photo of Cici Pearson](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clbogb4vy027x0i2y0l3a3gf0.jpg?size=100)
![Photo of Bethany](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl0zm8lwq00090hwt6omn0oue.jpeg?size=100)
Ok, the first three novellas were sooo good, I loved finally seeing all the adventure and swash-buckling bad-assery I expected when first introduced to Adarlin's Assassin in Throne of Glass. The last two novellas, however, were excruciatingly slow with all the dialogue and meandering around Riften, especially in the last novella when we already knew Sam's fate. I know it's because there needed to be a relationship fully established with Sam before the finale since we didn't see much of him until the 4th novella, but the plot underneath felt repetitive and pointless--ESPECIALLY since Arobynn's betrayal (BOTH times) was so comically obvious that I lost complete faith in Celaena's supposed intelligence. It was nice to finally know the exact events leading up to Celaena becoming a slave in Endovier, so it was definitely worth the read for the backstory; I just wish the last two novellas weren't so long or predictable.
![Photo of Jennifer Gosnell](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clys1hhb900020i21c4mdcyy8.jpg?size=100)
These novellas are fantastic! I didn’t anticipate that they would be so close in the timeline to ToG and would pick up one after another. I really love that we got to really see Celaena in action, and in a myriad of different circumstances. It was delightful, heartbreaking, and twisty/turny. I’m torn on the reading order. I see the arguments for reading this book first, and the arguments for reading it 3rd or 4th. I read it 3rd, after Crown of Midnight… Overall I think that worked for me.
![Photo of Maya](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clyn44cm9007a0j2u9nuretxz.jpg?size=100)
3.75 ★ “I will not be afraid.” The ending of this book shattered me. Realizing that she’s just a young girl. All the things they put her through. All the horrors she had to go through. Just for her to be used again and again. Being betrayed every step of the way. She just can’t catch a break it breaks my heart :(
![Photo of Haley](https://assets.literal.club/user/fallback-avatars/avatar_22.jpg?size=100)
At first I really enjoyed this book but towards the end it started getting slower and harder for me to get through. Overall the book was good.
![Photo of Kaylin Paige](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clrmcx67402yr0hz29ah150ru.jpg?size=100)
This was great. I have heard that this is the worst book in the series but that is simply untrue. I loved this book and every story inside of it.
The ending devastated me. I am a mixture of emotions rn. But this is just the prologue, so I am so excited to see where this story goes.
![Photo of Mackenzie Richardson](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clqgi1iai007x0i0d5f02hsvp.jpg?size=100)
![Photo of CLAUDIA VALDES](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cljslkfql01g10iy0gn5652ta.jpg?size=100)
i’m telling you right now, this book has altered my life path. this book means everything to me, n sam is so wonderful and beautiful and he deserves so much light and this book has destroyed me. i hate it and i love it and im sad
![Photo of Aims](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl7ublcxh00910i013n646z1f.jpg?size=100)
Wow! Don’t read this as the first book in the series. It definitely hits harder once you know a little……..
![Photo of Valentina Williams](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cljrxnuzx01fq0iy024094wtc.jpg?size=100)
Not my favorite but I see now why I had to read it. Men are trash — confirmed.
![Photo of Gabriella Mustica](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clvk3m4nm010u0i36d89p76bo.jpg?size=100)
i read this third and knew a bit about celaena’s past just from reading throne of glass and crown of midnight. learning all of the details that make celaena who she is made me love her even more! I sobbed!! I can’t wait to read the heir of fire and the rest of the series
![Photo of Edna Aviles](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cm6n63mly001k0i33c5dkbkwg.jpg?size=100)
I got mixed reviews on this one, some people said it was boring to get through & I couldn’t disagree more & im glad I read it in the order I’m reading right now cause it’s got be ready to dive into the next book! I enjoyed this one.
![Photo of Z♡](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clw5mcrgu01940i2ia8gcfeet.jpg?size=100)
4★ i’m so glad i read this one after Heir of Fire. the emotional impact with the relationships between characters hit harder during the later books in the series and even though i knew what was coming, it didn’t stop the tears
![Photo of Neeha Mian](https://assets.literal.club/user/fallback-avatars/avatar_12.jpg?size=100)
My fave out of TOG so far!
Highlights
![Photo of Karen](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cm64efj5n022n0i203xox6teb.jpg?size=100)
“He sent you to the Red Desert,” Sam went on, his words soft and low. “But my punishment was having to watch him beat you that night.”
screaming
![Photo of Karen](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cm64efj5n022n0i203xox6teb.jpg?size=100)
Trying so hard not to get attached to sam cortland and failing. #pain
![Photo of maría 🪻](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clr4454ur01mh0i150nxtf3di.jpg?size=100)
![Photo of Syrina](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/ckz0ooxxe00140iykhayud75c.jpeg?size=100)
Where she was, it was quiet, and damp, and cold, and reeked of mildew and refuse.
![Photo of Inés García Piñeiro](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl0edmcsi000g0gvde6vscu55.jpeg?size=100)
![Photo of Cassie French](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clds7wt5l045l0i4kadse0op0.jpg?size=100)
"If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it -to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”
![Photo of Inés García Piñeiro](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl0edmcsi000g0gvde6vscu55.jpeg?size=100)
![Photo of Miranda Watson](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cldl5xu1c03y60i2ya08n3180.jpg?size=100)
![Photo of Miranda Watson](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cldl5xu1c03y60i2ya08n3180.jpg?size=100)
Prayed Yrene Towers seized her life with both hands and set out for the pale-stoned owers city of Antica. Prayed that somehow, years from now, Yrene Towers would return to this continent, and maybe, just maybe, heal their shattered world a little bit.
IYKYK
![Photo of Leni McLeod](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/clcoa5zey03600i4keyup5z6o.jpg?size=100)
And she was not afraid.
kill yourself I’m crying
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
"I do the things that I do because I'm afraid . . . And because I don't know how to express what I feel"
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
She preferred the silence. In the silence she couldn't hear the worst question of all: had she brought this upon herself?
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
"I love you," he breathed against her mouth. "And from today onward, I never want to be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to hell itself, wherever you are, that's where I what to me. Forever."
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone possible.
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
"I love you,” he repeated, shaking her again. “I have for years. But if I asked you to pick, you’d choose Arobynn, and I. Can’t. Take. It.”
“You’re a damned idiot,” she breathed grabbing the front of his tunic. “You’re a moron and an ass and a damned idiot." He looked like she had hit him. But she went on, and grasped both sides of his face. “Because I’d pick you."
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
"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"
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
“My name is Celaena Sardothien,” she whispered, “and I will not be afraid.
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
The music broke her apart and put her back together, only to rend her asunder again and again.
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
Quiet as mice, quiet as the wind, quiet as the grave.
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
Everything has a price."
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
The girl who'd taken on a Pirate Lord and his entire island, the girl who'd stolen Asterion horses and raced along the beach in the Red Desert, the girl who'd sat on her own rooftop, watching the sun rise over Avery, the girl who'd felt alive with possibility...that girl was gone.
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
“You want to hear something ridiculous? Whenever I’m scared out of my wits, I tell myself: My name is Sam Cortland … and I will not be afraid. I’ve been doing it for years.”
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
This girl wasn’t like wildfire—she was wildfire. Deadly and uncontrollable. And slightly out of her wits.
![Photo of nara davies](https://assets.literal.club/user/avatar/cl6t0dzr800640hvu7ggf4u5l.jpeg?size=100)
"Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them."