Eighteen year old Celaena Sardothien has spent the last year toiling in the salt mines of Endovier. What was her crime? She was the best assassin in the land, and she was caught and sentenced to a place where most people do not survive more than a month.
But who is she? She was found another assassin nearly drowned and frozen when she was eight years old. He raised her and trained her to be Adarlan's assassin, until one day she is escorted from the mines of Endovier. She doesn't speak much of her past, but it is clear that there is more that the reader doesn't know.
Celaena is offered a deal by the Crown Prince of Adarlan and the captain of the guard, Chaol Westfall. If she wins the competition, she becomes the royal assassin, and she will eventually win her freedom.
Once the competition begins, some of the participants start turning up dead. Celaena knows that something doesn't feel right about all of this, and there is something evil about this kingdom and the ruler.
This book kept my attention, and I have just finished the second book. Hurry up, MCPL readers, I need Book Three!
Great quotes from the book -
"Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons."
"No, I can survive on my own - if given the proper reading material.'
"Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters."
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