A review by mars_aria
The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke

2.0

Not as good as I'd expected it to be. The main character, Ananna annoyed me at times. So did Nija. Ananna was too whiny and complained too much to me. There were not as many love scenes as I'd expected. The fact that the romantic part of the story that the summary mentioned did not come about until the very end of the story seemed cheesy, as though it was partly used as a way to keep the story going. I honestly had not expected there to be a second book. There were no 'haughty manticores' as it said on the summary either and I would have liked to have seen some more action packed scenes. That's usually what you expect when you read the word "assassin" on a summary. Basically the summary did not fully lie to me, but it made it sound like the book was better than it was. I didn't like the fact that background about the curse was not told to the reader until toward the end of the story. The whole thing kinda sounded like a disney movie, based on the summary (like Prince of Persia: Sands of Time).