The Assassin's Blade - Sarah J. Maas

Managed to read The Assassin and the Pirate Lord.

 

Lord, it was atrocious.

 

I WANT to love this series. Everyone raves about the sequels. I really, really want to love it. There is nothing I like better than a kick-ass girl in a fantasy novel.

 

But there’s some things I can’t get over:

 

  • Celaena’s entitlement. She’s a spoiled little bitch. And totally vain to boot. She thinks she’s better than everyone when there’s nothing to suggest that she’s any better than the spoiled brat she’s shown to be. Which brings me to my second point…
  • Celaena’s lack of killing anyone. She’d rather knock them out, for all her petty, bloodthirsty thoughts. How is that being the world’s best assassin? You can’t just TELL me she’s a kick-ass assassin, you have to SHOW me. Good lord, this is really bad.

So I gave The Assassin and the Healer a go, because my lovely friend Bekka told me she actually kills people in this one.

 

  • Except that most of the killing was off-page.
  • It wasn’t assassination, it was murdering people because she was irritable and itching for a fight.

Half the story was told from the healer’s point of view so we knew just how beautifully tragic and beautiful and tragic darling Celaena was. Mustn’t forget how truly amazing and dangerous she is.

 

Fuck this. DNF.