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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

14 reviews

faemother's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is the best book series I have ever read, I love it and it is written beautifully.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Stalking, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Murder, and Addiction

imds's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Sexual assault, Grief, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, War, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Genocide, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Confinement, Gore, Trafficking, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

chloe_silk1810's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Blood, Grief, Kidnapping, Violence, Genocide, Murder, and Death

Moderate: War, Torture, Drug abuse, Vomit, and Drug use

paperindy's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

As with most high fantasy worlds, this took me a little while to get into. But once I was in, it was so much fun. 

Honestly, I don’t think Sarah J Maas is an incredible writer (and particularly in this first book! There were so many exclamation marks!) but the confidence she has in her stories is addictive. It is so easy to be swept away with her worlds, and there were a few really enjoyable developments in this first book that I didn’t see coming and some great characters. 

As always she does an excellent job of balancing developing the romance elements with developing friendships, and having bigger goals beyond love. And I loved the mystery element in this! It was intriguing and helped lead into the more magical elements of this story really well. 

I loved the structure of the competition, which reminded me slightly of The Hunger Games. The only thing I thought was strange was no one asking for the competition to be called off once everyone started dying? It felt really bizarre that no one was even discussing that as an option or explaining why it wasn’t.  I also didn’t buy the Dorian romance for a second which made the love triangle parts a little less compelling.

This was a good start to the series but I have high hopes it will get better from here. It’s hard to avoid all the Throne of Glass references on Instagram so I feel like I still have many characters to meet and places to go, and I’m excited to start the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Gore, and Body horror

Minor: Kidnapping and Genocide