Rack the bones, and grab the whetstones, falalalala, lalalala. ‘Tis the season for assassins… fa la la la la…
Okay, maybe not.
Reader Gut Reaction: I think this book was impressive to me because the character of Celaena Sardothien was impressively …much. Impressively filthy. Impressively foul-tempered. Impressively unlikable. It takes a lot of courage for a writer to GO THERE, to make up a character her readers may not like — whom she herself may dislike — and then slowly but surely let her grow on them, like a particularly noxious mold. It worked.
Ardalan is an impressively dark country. The prisons are grim, the slavery is more grim, and the King – oy. There is no magic. There is no light. There is no chance in Ardalan, nothing lives but the King’s will.
Into this dark landscape is sketched an epic tale.
Sounds quick and action-packed. If I see it, I'll check it out!