The Assassin's Blade - Sarah J. Maas

The Assassin's Blade

By Sarah J. Maas

  • Release Date: 2014-03-04
  • Genre: Paranormal Romance
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 2,089 Ratings

Description

The twist of a knife. The birth of a legend.

Step into the world of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas with this collection of prequel novellas.

Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin's Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. But when Arobynn dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, Celaena finds herself acting independently of his wishes and questioning her own allegiance.

If she hopes to escape Arobynn's clutches, Celaena will have to put her faith in her wits and her blade . . . knowing that if she fails, she'll lose not just a chance at freedom but her life.

A prequel to the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series, this collection of five novellas explores the history of this cunning assassin and her enthralling-and deadly-world.

Included in this volume:
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
The Assassin and the Healer
The Assassin and the Desert
The Assassin and the Underworld
The Assassin and the Empire

Reviews

  • Critical to the story, but not my favorite book

    3
    By bookloverjenna
    This book was exciting at times but I had to force myself to get through it. I’m a huge Sarah J Maas fan but I’m not the biggest fan of this book. Excited to continue with this series

  • A roller coaster of a book

    5
    By saraannlock34782561
    This book has so many ups and downs, it is constantly begging you to keep reading. The story of Sam is so heartbreaking and truly makes you feel for the couple in this book. It added a huge amount of details and understanding to before the TOG series. I would recommend this to anyone.

  • Assassin’s Blade Review

    5
    By Mia Close
    Read this book after reading the first three and it gives a great background to the previous novels. Great book!

  • Amazing

    5
    By AnnoyedNGA
    Read this after completing the series and it compelled me to read the entire series over again with new perspective! This was so well crafted and anxiety inducing, as we all knew where it would end, but it was the how that had me speed reading! Love love love this gut wrenching story!

  • Necessary prequel

    3
    By avlahannah
    Tragic, powerful, complicated love. Sets the stage for the series.

  • Amazing story of Hope

    5
    By Jrfun
    The end always gives me such hope for a better future when I think of it. I love this book and I always will. I’ll hope that when I become a Mom, my kids will enjoy reading this series as much as I did. If I could, I’d erase my memory of this series, anything to experience the shock, tears, smiles, laughs, and triumphs of this series, the ups and downs of it, for the first time again.

  • Meh

    1
    By McJ110792
    After I finished reading the ACOTAR series, I tried to get into these. But they weren’t as good.

  • AMAZING. A MUST READ

    5
    By imcatbug
    This one was amazing from beginning to end. You don’t have to read this one first unless you want to!

  • Loved it.

    5
    By Bansheebabies
    Beautifully written. Great character development. Can’t wait to see what will happen next. By the way, there were no missing parts here as it was mentioned in other reviews. It seems an update was submitted and the missing story was added back.

  • Second novella is now here

    5
    By Flaymien
    to all wondering, this version now includes all 5 novellas. the issue with the second novella being discluded has been resolved

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