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A review by fangirlishwandering
The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas
5.0
My head aches from feeling so much in so little time.
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The THRONE OF GLASS series is pretty famous and I know I’m the one super late to the party so there isn’t much new things to say about it. I loved the prequel. And I know I will love the whole series, already.
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I’d like to point out this new side of Sarah J. Maas that I didn’t see in ACOTAR. This prequel gave me a lot of action. I was completely amazed at how every little thing that happened had a later repercussion and how every single thing ever since the first page unreeled (with lots of plot twists) INTO THIS HEARTBREAKING ENDING (I’m not okay- have I mentioned my head is aching? my heart too.)
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I haven’t found any other author who knows how to do this. To grab the right scenes to make them angsty. Never-seen-before scenes. Scenarios we’ve never fantasized about- I mean A GODDAMN SEWER?
Reading Sarah J. Maas books is like “oh is she really gonna make that x character appear now to make us emotional? Oh yes, she is. Nice.”
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Also I’d like to point out for the ones who’ve read this prequel already, how much I loved the fact that Doneval who was spotted with the whores wasn’t the villain and was actually trying to free the slaves, while Farran who entered a bookshop to buy fantasy books was the real bad guy. SARAH J. MAAS EXTINGUISHING STEREOTYPED VILLAINS? yes queen, yes.
⠀
The THRONE OF GLASS series is pretty famous and I know I’m the one super late to the party so there isn’t much new things to say about it. I loved the prequel. And I know I will love the whole series, already.
⠀
I’d like to point out this new side of Sarah J. Maas that I didn’t see in ACOTAR. This prequel gave me a lot of action. I was completely amazed at how every little thing that happened had a later repercussion and how every single thing ever since the first page unreeled (with lots of plot twists) INTO THIS HEARTBREAKING ENDING (I’m not okay- have I mentioned my head is aching? my heart too.)
⠀
I haven’t found any other author who knows how to do this. To grab the right scenes to make them angsty. Never-seen-before scenes. Scenarios we’ve never fantasized about- I mean A GODDAMN SEWER?
Reading Sarah J. Maas books is like “oh is she really gonna make that x character appear now to make us emotional? Oh yes, she is. Nice.”
⠀
Also I’d like to point out for the ones who’ve read this prequel already, how much I loved the fact that Doneval who was spotted with the whores wasn’t the villain and was actually trying to free the slaves, while Farran who entered a bookshop to buy fantasy books was the real bad guy. SARAH J. MAAS EXTINGUISHING STEREOTYPED VILLAINS? yes queen, yes.