Throne of Glass (2012)
Throne of Glass is a 2012 assassins book written by Sarah J. Maas.
Celaena Sardothien is the most feared assassin in Adarlan, and she has spent a year breaking rock in a salt mine when the Crown Prince offers her a wager. Win a contest against the kingdom's deadliest killers and thieves, serve as the King's Champion, and eventually earn her freedom. She takes the deal. Sarah J. Maas builds a court thick with rivalry and buried magic, where the prince needles her, the captain of the guard watches her, and a visiting princess becomes an unlikely friend. Then competitors start turning up dead, and something older than the contest begins to stir inside the castle walls.
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What is Throne of Glass about?
Celaena Sardothien is the most feared assassin in Adarlan, and she has spent a year breaking rock in a salt mine when the Crown Prince offers her a wager. Win a contest against the kingdom's deadliest killers and thieves, serve as the King's Champion, and eventually earn her freedom. She takes the deal. Sarah J. Maas builds a court thick with rivalry and buried magic, where the prince needles her, the captain of the guard watches her, and a visiting princess becomes an unlikely friend. Then competitors start turning up dead, and something older than the contest begins to stir inside the castle walls.
When was Throne of Glass published?
Throne of Glass was published in 2012.
Who made Throne of Glass?
Throne of Glass was written by Sarah J. Maas.
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A few thoughts on Throne of Glass
Readers hooked on court intrigue and a deadly heroine should try The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, where a monster hunter navigates the same tangle of scheming royals and old magic. Game of Thrones matches the political knife-work and the constant sense that something monstrous waits beneath the throne room.
Deadly tournaments where losing means dying
Celaena Sardothien has to out-fight the kingdom's deadliest killers and thieves just to earn her freedom, the same win-or-die stakes driving Alice in Borderland's survival games, Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II's tournament to the death, Hunter x Hunter's brutal exam arcs and Slay the Gods' combat trials.
Fantasy kingdoms where everyone is fighting for the throne
Throne of Glass sets Celaena inside a royal court thick with rivalry and buried magic, the same crowded battle for a crown found in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the monster-hunting politics of The Witcher 3, the war-torn empires of Gardens of the Moon and Oathbringer, and Elden Ring's fight for a shattered throne.
Fantasy heroes whose hidden powers change everything
Celaena's own hidden power stirs slowly beneath her assassin's training, the same slow awakening found in the dragon rider of Brisingr, the gunslinger of Wizard and Glass, the avatar-bound warrior of The Secret of the Nagas, the witch-raised girl of The Girl Who Drank the Moon and the invisible girl of If You Could See the Sun.
Open-world fantasy games built for warriors to explore
The court intrigue of Throne of Glass plays out against a kingdom worth exploring on its own, the same pull toward sprawling fantasy realms found in Skyrim's frozen north, Breath of the Wild's ruined Hyrule, Hollow Knight's buried kingdom and God of War's Norse wilds.