+Paulina Elizabeth N It doesn't matter what she's done in previous short stories, this is the beginning of a series, and SJM began in the worst way... By TELLING us Celaena was an assassin but NEVER showing us throughout the whole story. That is some weak storytelling. And then she demands to be respected for it? That is the pinnacle of immaturity. "Look how awesome I am, everybody clap for me." She is not a likable character. I don't think you understand that KILLING PPL FOR A LIVING would have some serious psychological effects on you, and make you very humble and reserved, either that or insane. Celaena on the other hand is just a brat with no empathy. And as far as my critique goes, I don't go looking for mistakes to nitpick. I go into every story with an open mind, I even ignore many minor things, but when they all start to build up, it's un-ignorable and inexcusable. Such is the case here. It's very clear SJM just sat down and started writing what she would think is 'cool' for Celaena to do, and eventually formed some sort of a story out of it. And it's clear not a whole lot of thought went into it and that does not make for a book that I'd enjoy.
+stiqula I understand why you don't like the book so let me start first-off by saying I'm not criticising your opinion or anything like that. But personally I got the sense that telling us Celaena was an assassin without really showing it was a deliberate decision. Celaena thinks pretty damn highly of herself. I definitely got the sense that she thinks she's a better assassin than she is, and that the reputation Arobynn encourages actually exaggerates her abilities somewhat. I also think that killing people for a living would have different effects on different people. In order to cope with it, and with the guilt, you'd have to develop a lack of empathy, or the ability to bury the guilt by telling yourself they deserve it/it's just how the world works, etc, which is what Celaena does. I understand why you don't like the character because I didn't like her much either at first (I've been reading the whole series and, minor spoiler, she becomes more likeable). But I'm the sort of person who can cope with disliking the main character to quite a considerable degree. In fact, I tend to dislike books where the main character is likeable because that usually means they don't make mistakes and have no character growth. But of course, if you completely hate a character, that also makes the book unreadable. Anyway, I'm not trying to pick an argument or anything, I just wanted to add my 2 cents worth.
+Ellie5259 I would have bought into your arguement IF Caelena EVER had a relevant monologue about her "profession" or if someone at least thought it of her. Heck, this is how my sensitive character got an interest in her assasin boyfriend - she saw the sadness beneath the mask of arrogance
+IchibanOjousama yes i did i read the WHOLE FUCKING SERIES...i never said she did um exept for the demon in the abandoned tunnels with damaris. but in all the other books she did...sooooo checkmate ig? GG
Also I feel like Celaena was just a mash of everything the author wanted us to like. It was almost like 'PLEASE JUST LIKE HER HERE SHE LOVES BOOKS, SHE LOVES DOGS, SHE LOVES MUSIC, SHE IS SASSY, BUT ALSO EMOTIONAL, OH DID I FORGET SHE ALSO IS A BAD ASS' ugh
There is no such thing as a mary sue, the term was just made by authors who are saying 'That character does not fit my standers, MARY SUE!' Granted there are characters who should exist, but the term mary sue is just over used.
Really, she has flaws, she had to background, she had character and nothing comes to her automatically. A mary sue isn't just 'all powerful' That is not what makes a mary sue. What makes a mary sue is being all powerful AND having all your problems solved rather quickly. If there is no real struggle to the plot of a character, then they would be considered a mary sue.
The worst thing about the book is declaring she is the best assassin in the world at the beginning, that’s make no god damn sense at all, she is young, good at fighting( just good, not OP), emotional, can’t make decision logically, and she is the best......What the F..... If she is an in-experienced but talent young assassin, she has some very strong skills but also weakness that she has to working on, the story would be more interesting, and yet the author just make her a boring Mary Sue.
When I started reading, I thought she was supposed to be a deeply flawed character on purpose.. I mean dear lord that arrogance. Turns out this is just your typical female power trip YA story
When I read this I felt like the author made Celaena too perfect, like "oooh she's so attractive and all the women wanna be her and all the men want her, she's witty and intelligent and can also use all these weapons, she's so tough but look how sensitive and sweet, and she's an assassin and soooo closed off but she makes a friend with a princess in five seconds, and she speaks multiple languages." I hate characters like that! I enjoyed the premise, and I enjoyed the character of Dorian and especially Nox. If I were to recommend another book with a similar premise with a well thought out love triangle, I would go with 'The Crown's Fate' by Evelyn Skye.
(I know you may not care, and I know that this is a year late, but I'm putting a SPOILER WARNING here anyways.) Attractive, yes. Her past explains that in later books, seeing as she's revealed to be Fae, and Fae always tend to be portrayed as beautiful/handsome creatures in most myths, legends and stories. After being in a slave mine for a year kinda changed that for a while, though. She was trained as an assassin from age eight with a master who never gave her a break and forced her to smash her own hand, or he'd do it for her. Of course she'd be good with weapons. Not to mention that rampage she went on with a pickax before finally gaining a sword. She can be sweet and sensitive, true, but her true weak points aren't really shown in this book. She speaks multiple languages because many people in the slave mine with her were from a different country, and one of them taught her while they were suffering together. She's only closed off to certain people. You'd find that if you read the other books in the series. I get that not liking the first book in a series would make you not want to read the rest, but a lot of the things make more sense if you do with this particular series. She and Nehemia essentially bond over the fact that they both know how to speak the foreign language, and their mutual dislike of Kaltain, which turned into a friendship. It's not like the friendship lasts for long, though, seeing as the princess dies halfway through the second book. Sarah slowly weaves different plans in her writing that come into play later on in the series. You say she's too perfect, but she has many flaws that you simply can't see. Flaws that you can't see in this book, and flaws that cone into play later on. (I'm just gonna add in a little something here and say that the series gets better as it goes along.)
@@aelinaag Bro she's fucking trash and extremely hypocritical and should learn her place. She bosses Dorian around despite him being a royal himself and repeatedly blamed Chaol for something that was not his fault?
Read the ENTIRE franchise and I was really bothered by the love story between Celaena, the guard (whatever his name was) and the prince (Also forget his name). She lowkey led them on for like TWO BOOKS. And then ends up with someone completely different in the end... Like what?
I cannot express how happy I am that I'm not the only one who had these opinions! I totally agree with all of this video. ***Spoilers*** Something that realllllyyy got under my skin about Celaena is how she was good at frickin everything, like, sit down at a piano after not playing it for years on end and turn out a perfect tune? NO! I can't even remember a piano piece I learned a few months ago, no amount of princess training can do that. On the topic of princess, that plot twist was visible a mile away. Also, extra points for an AC reference xD
I only read Throne of glass by Sarah J Maas, and I will continue to wonder for the rest of my life how on earth it's so popular. I don't even care how people keep saying that 'it gets better' because I hate absolutely everything about it and cannot imagine how it can be fixed. It is by far the book I hate most out of everything I have ever read. It is so refreshing to find a level-headed review for once instead of the usual baseless gushing 😣 It's such a shame too, I really don't enjoy being frustrated by books. It would have been so much better for me if I could be pleased easily.
LMFAO. I laughed so much because the part about the "champion is a dressed up word for murderer" totally floored me when I was reading it too. I was just... so blown away. Like... the book cover says she's an assassin?? The book reminds us every chapter?
I get the feeling that Celaena's whole character could have worked so much better if she wasn't a great assassin YET, like she was trying to become one and kept tripping over her own pride. Maybe she could have had a much better character arc where she learnt the value of humility and making mistakes and overcoming overconfidence or whatever. but instead she just looked like a massive Mary Sue lmao.
+IchibanOjousama She was prior to when the first book started. The prequel is about her time as an assassin, leading up to when she was caught, as well as how she was caught.
Gabrielle Veneziale I have read books 0, 1, 2 & 3 and she never acts like an assasin, she is prone to fits of inhumane rage and crazy behaviour such as showing people her chewed food in her mouth, she makes showy entrances (assasins should be unnoticeable/untraceable) and everyone creeps up on her all the time (never hears anyone approaching) and is a bitch in general to people for no reason and hates all Caltain for being into fashion and for liking Dorian, as if she's any better.
i had the exact same feeling about Celaena. i felt cheated actually. i felt that she was not the notorious assassin she was supposed to be. she overhyped herself too much. i'm all for confident characters, but not one with a gigantic head on her shoulders.
when you were jerking your chin everywhere "my arms don't work" hahahaha and when you played the audiobook clips. i'm dead. this is literally the realest review i've ever seen. these were my exact thoughts while reading it. i was wondering if i might have read the wrong book because i just couldn't see what other people saw? i just didn’t understand the pacing. by page 200 it just seemed like Dorian and Chaol were just taking turns barging into Celaena’s room and then trying to pretend they weren’t attracted to her. and i was actually excited to read about the challenges but Sarah J. Maas kept either breezing through them or skipping them completely. it would be like “oh and since the last page three challenges passed… but look! Dorian is in Celaena’s room again. He’s teaching her billiards!”
Truth she downplayed the murder bits and emphasised the love triangle Like EVERY OTHER FUCKING TEEN BOOK GODDAMN IT WRITERS GIVE US A NEW STORY *goes back to enders game and other books with NO FRICKING LOVE STORY*
Lucy Daniel lt just gets worse as the books progress. Like its stopped being a love triangle,but it just doesn't even make sense anymore. Heir of Fire was okay but then a random characters are introduced. OMG I swear it got crazy. Basically I didn't even read the last one because basically a lot of my favorites got just got shited on which I couldn't understand because they had wonderful character development in the recent books.
I could just stop at YESYESYESYES but I'll explain because let's face it I love to rant and complain. See, my problem isn't even that Celaena is unlikeable. I love unlikeable character. It's that she's not entirely supposed to be unlikeable? I feel like I'm supposed to think 'Yeah! Celaena's awesome and sassy and wow so cool!' but she just annoys me. She's so oblivious to everything! also. I'm sorry. I just can't buy the whole she's 18 and some sort of assassin prodigy. Sorry. No. You're not. also, the whole part where Chaol has to explain to her why she needs to stay in the middle just made me smh so bad. I didn't even mind the girly stuff/descriptions of clothes; that would have been an interesting trait if the rest of Celaena wasn't so annoying. also omg that audio clip WHY. WHY. okay I'll stop now. and this is only after reading about 150pgs :P
Story Nut Exactly. The author wants her to be cool, but fails miserably at it. I totally agree that if she'd written her to BE unlikable, that would have been great, but instead she tried to force Celaena to be something she wasn't... She wanted her character to be EVERYTHING, and it turned out a conflicting mess. YOU JUST CANT BE A DOG-LOVING, HIGH-MAINTINENCE, ENTITLED BRAT WHO SHIES AWAY FROM KILLING PPL AND THINKS SHE'S BETTER THAN EVERYONE AND ALSO BE AN ASSASSIN WHITH A HORRIBLE PAST THAT WATCHED PPL GET RAPED AND BETTEN FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR IN THE SALT MINES. NO. In reality Celaena should have been in her 20s and very fucked up, with a lot of internal issues going on, coming to terms with the idea that soon she would be free (for the first time in her life). She would NOT be stuck up and worried about such superficial bullshit like what she was going to wear next or which princeling she wanted to bang. THAT is what this story should have been. Ok, I'm done. :P
I love this book, and the characters; but this is so funny. Although the only thing I would say is she didn't eat before seeing the king wasn't because she wanted to look thin, but because she thought she would throw up.
Great video! It was really funny and entertaining! I really liked listening to his point of view. I understand, and even agree with some of his points (although some of those were explained in the follow up books -like for example [SPOILER] the competition for the king's champion was held so the king could experiment with using the wyrdmarks to steal the strength from the other competitors. They were supposed to be training, get stronger so that Cain could use the wyrdmarks, kill them and get all that extra strength. And, in the end he would be the champion, stronger than everybody and still be under the king's control. Although the king is not even the big boss . And she is the princess of Terassen, even if she had spent all her child/teenager years being forced to train and kill. [/spoiler]). But, I still like this book very much. 😬😁 Also, I think she uses 'rooms' because her room has a semi formal dining room, the bed room, bathroom and a separate room for the walk in closet. (At least, that's what I understood from the audiobook)
What took me out the story was that she tells us that she knows how to use every weapon, she plays the paionoforte, she likes to read and she is the worlds best assassin. And she has learned all this in 10 years, and also during those ten years have made a reputation as being the best assassin. That's just too much for 10 yearsto make me believe she did it. I also think Dorian was boring. He didn't know how to act around women, even though he was getting engaged a few years back. And Chaol, who is the captain of the kings guard, but never killed anybody. And the killing is bad, but we still have deathcamps... and we don't find that problematic.
Just finished "Throne of Glass" and I'm glad to have found someone who feels the same way about this book as I do! Like you I didn't hate this book but I found it very underwhelming especially when considering all the praise it got. I too was annoyed with many of the same things you were. Celaena felt like a Mary Sue to me. I mean, she is badass and a warrior and super beautiful and everyone loves her except the bad guys yadda yadda yadda One thing you didn't mention but that also really bugged me: It is being repeated over and over again that she survived a death camp but I never really bought it. The way she acted it always seemed like she just spend a year at a really shitty school and not A FREAKING DEATH CAMP! Imean, when I hear death camp I think places like Ausschwitz and I'm pretty sure that the people who made it out of there alive were completely traumatized. We are only told how horrible that camp was but we never see any evidence of that in the way Calaena acts ... Anyways, thank your for this very entertaining and funny review!
+GirlintheSea lol I agree with you xD by the way, her hidden 'past' is too impossible to imagine. Scratch that. I saw it coming. It was obvious, but it would be impossible in her circumstance. She already has that awesome assassin reputation, but then you add THAT to the mix?! How special is this character? THAT special? she is too special that I can't even relate to her. Rich, athletic, gorgeous, mysterious hidden past that makes her 100x more special to ridiculous levels of Mary-Sueness... I won't tell you 'cause I hate spoiling things.
Now I just couldn't resist and had to look it up haha (good thing there is a 'Throne of Glass' wiki). And just OMG ... I'll add a spoiler warning for other readers out here just in case so *SPOILER* The first thing I thought when I read your comment was: 'Gee, I hope the author didn't give her the 'Spaceballs' treatment and made her the heir of some lost kingdom'. But. That. Is. Exactly. What. Happened! I mean, that trope is so overused that 'Spaceballs' used it as a joke in the 80s! You can definitely see that this story started out as fanfiction.
+GirlintheSea She's a walking cliche. -____- It's so disappointing to me that ppl actually like this crap. I get it if you're younger and have NEVER READ A STORY BEFORE. But for ppl in their 20's.... ugh.
stiqula I do get how people can like this story, it's an easy read. But people who genuinely think this is a well written and original story ... well ... :P
I couldn't even finish the book. Very disappointed at booktube for hyping it up. Sarah J. Maas should have played an Assassin's Creed game before writing a novel about an "assassin"... Altaïr, Ezio, Connor, Aveline, and even Edward would laugh at Celaena. Some assassin she is!
Omg that was my favourite thing, I'm actually shocked you're not more popular. You're review was actually honest 😂 another thing that pissed my off was when she received the sweets and just didn't even think that they could be poisoned, even after there was killer on the loose 😂👏👏👏👏 I think you're my new favourite book tuber
I like the plot but not the way Sarah writes. When we start off in Endovier and Caleana sees the world outside of the labor camp for the first time in a year I would think that more describing would go into the scene. Sarah tries to make Caleana into this complex character but all I see is a happy go girl who suddenly gets angry out of nowhere. She doesn't feel like shes gone through what she has. But when Calaena starts kissing Dorian or Chaol then the author dives into detail about how they smell and the color of their eyes and the heat that shoots through Caleana's body woo hoo. Plus she forgots little things like how she keeps mentioning that no one can sneak up on the QUEEN OF ASSASINS but people somehow manage to do it everytime?! I dont know, i really like this plot and people say it gets better in heir of fire so I'm giving it a shot. Its not necessarily a bad book but it just doesnt have depth. I would only recommend this series to people who dont read in depth into characters
Even though I like this series (not the first book, that one was just meh), you made me laugh so hard. THANK YOU. Also people need to chill out. Not everyone is going to like this series and Celaena is quite difficult to digest in the first book and in general.
I laughed so hard while watching this I think I'm in love with you this was so spot on and perfect. I was reading it because everyone was always screaming about how awesome it was and I thought there was something wrong with me. I feel represented. Thank you for this.
THANK you for pointing out the tongue clicking! I just read the "A Court of Thorns and Roses"-series, the characters there were doing it all the time and it annoyed me so much
I love you. I seriously love you.Finally a negative review on that book and someone who hates Celaena.Your critique was so spot on and funny.You said all the things I had problem with while reading it.I wanted to hit every character in the face with their book.Thank you.
It's two year comment at this point. i don't know how old were you back then, but I dare you - if you're a reader, go back to this book when you're like... 25-30 yo. I bet you'll delete your comment in shame faster than n.korean goverment deletes "Kim die!' ones togerher with their commenters and their entire families.
OMG YES! They just didn't work together!! I so thought it was medical like...and then I'm like...wait whaaaaat? I'm confused by these people, their urban dialogue and this character who makes no sense. "She doesn't care about her own story...she'd rather read someone else's." LOL YESS The prequel is much better...BUT I'm sorry your first book can't be a sad story because the prequel written later on is better and will make the first book make more sense...NO NO NO!! LOL That audio book...I'm waiting for her to "go see Pa and have tea with him on the plantation porch." LOL
Finally someone that I agree with ,since for a while i thought i was the only one that didnt like the book ,i guess the only charecters i enjoyed about the entire book were chaol and princess nehemia ,nothing else :/
I've never even read this book, but I've watched this video at least five times. There's something extremely gratifying about watching somebody tear a book to shreds. Side note, it's super petty, but I feel like I would have a hard time with this book purely because her name is Celaena. Like I couldn't make myself read Graceling because I couldn't deal with Katsa and Po. Some names just stick in my craw like that and I can't go on.
The "I am Calaena Sardothien, and I will not be afraid." is a actually one of the most meaningful lines. It's something Sam told her about before he died, and it is something she says throughout the entire series. When she was in the wagon on the way to Endovier, when she was terrified and heartbroken and wondering if dying would be better than a death camp, right after Sam had died brutally, she said "I am Calaena Sardothien, and I will not be afraid." Every time she's scared, that's her security blanket. You can tell I love Throne of Glass, I don't know why I clicked on this XD
DancesWithBeauty It's so poorly written and she is one of the absolutely shallowest person I've ever read about. She's a fucking shitty assassin, she can't even tell the difference between an average sized woman's footprints and a 7 foot tall mans. I could do a better job than her. It reads like poorly written Wattpad fanfiction and the story line is basic at best. She has ONE CHANCE to win her freedom and she spends it admiring herself in the mirror, napping, bitching, being a brat, reading really late at night right before challenges, and trying/failing to be a badass chick when she's just a shallow, waifish bitch. She's just an overall idiotic, generic "I'm a heroine and I'm badass but I also fall for 15 guys at once and can do anything and I can't die" character. It's just so fucking boring and it's like every other trying to be badass character ever (Katniss and Tris). I only made it through this book by running around my house yelling about how fucking imbecilic she is while my family stared. I expected a badass assassin and I got a self obsessed, romanticized, shallow idiot, needless to say I was thoroughly disappointed.
That is amazing! Is a shame we didn't have that information on the first novel! Even as a prologue or something. Going in the first book without this information makes the experience worse.
LeaTheHatless the first book was definitely the weakest book of the series. The plot gets way more complicated and unique, which is actually heavily foreshadowed in the first book a couple times.
It has been 8 years since this video was posted but every once in a while I still bring it up and watch it because it's so frickin' hilarious! I Love this video and the commentary is spot on. Personally, I enjoyed this book and read a few more books from the series (not all of them) ,however, after watching this video, I never saw Celaena the same way again. I also gained a higher expectation for main characters in books. Still love this video and will probably rewatch in the future.
Yes! Finally! I've found someone who doesn't like it! I thought the exact same things as you said, and I was so confused to why it was getting so many amazing reviews. I couldn't even finish the book :/
SetASpark damn you couldn't even finish the book???! That's messed up. I stopped reading in the middle for two months and then thought I'll give it another try and then finished it. It....wasn't bad. 😬🤷♀️And ppl told me it gets better so I'll read the next one The Crown of Midnight
I've never read this but I I've been hearing so many awesome things about it, and it was getting to the point it was obviously getting over hyped, I'm so glad I found someone who genuinely dislikes this book
She said she was glad she didn’t eat cause she was going to throw up. She doesn’t kill anyone in this one because she has guards on her ass every minute. And she is a teenager. The I will not be afraid bit actually means she is scared. (Sorry but these few points just seemed off to me. Not trying to bash your opinion. Anyway have a nice day people :) )
I felt the exact same way with the world she describes! She acts like its a LOTR midieval world and then she had a parasol and all these french style gowns that makes no sense so I was confused.
Well I would feel like it would make more sense that if in the future books it would show that she had been forced to be an assassin and that she didn’t like it and that all she really wanted to be was just a normal person, normal girl. But then when you get into her brain and she’s like “oh I’m the best!” it’s like what is going on here? It’s true the way she acts and the way she thinks are completely contradictory.
she was glad she didn’t eat yet, bc she would have puked if she had. she’s terrified of the king, bc he killed her parents. you would know if you read the first book or continued the series... its called a series for a damn reason. you must read all of the books to get the full picture.
If you read the prequel you will understand why she is called an assasin. It's called the assasin's blade. Also the story is about the competition to BECOME the king's assasin, not being his assasin.
Still lazy writing. Maybe the prequels are better but this book just betrayed my expectations. I was expecting intrigue, fantasy and murder. But all I got was a love story with some dressing. I should not have to read books that were written later in order to respect her title. Her not murdering anyone is an insult.
Thanks for this video, you definitely made me laugh, and made quite a few valid points. I was mostly annoyed by how hard the author pushed Celaena into the assassin role, while never proving it in her character or actions. People walked right up to her without her ever noticing them, she never went anywhere silently and stealthily, she was always noticed and even worse wanted to be noticed. She actually got angry that she was supposed to hide her identity and that people didn't know who she was. What assassin WANTS people to recognize them? A few times she gloated about her skill, but then was hurt that people were weary of her, afraid she might kill somebody. She had too many chances to take out people she thought were bad, but only thinks about killing people because they said something that wasn't pleasant about her or looked at her wrong. I could go on, but there's no need to. Queen of assassins, she was not. The writing was definitely off. I noticed myself skipping a lot of the text because it wasn't useful and interesting, or it was annoying. Endless talk of dresses, getting dressed, I don't like this dress, I don't like that thing or this thing or whatever. Why did an assassin need help getting dressed every damned time? I felt a few parts were contrived to the point I started getting angry and talking at the book. Example: Celaena begins to think Nehemia is the one killing champions. This is absurd because she didn't have any real motive. If she were to kill people, it would have been the king and his noblemen, not some thieves and killers that were there for some random year long tournament in order to be the king's assassin, which never made sense either. I could write an essay and provide quotes and the whole nine, but it's not worth it unless I was to be paid for it. Too bad, I'd be really good at it. It was an interesting story, and I could definitely see why people like it, but I had to ignore a lot of text in order to be happy with it. My mind easily recognizes most faults, and I can ignore a few small ones here and there, but every other page I was disconnected with a character (usually the main character), the plot, or thrown by the disconcerting writing. The one thing that really crushed me was that I was really hoping to see a badass main character that wasn't overpowered or didn't feel fake. Almost every MC in a book is nice but weak, nice but invincible, or a wannabe badass whose power doesn't matter cause I just want to rewrite their whole character and pay someone to have a new book made with my corrections just for me.
When she said she's glad she hasn't eaten yet, she meant that she's glad she won't throw up the food in front of the King. It's not because she's worrying about her appearance.
Idk if anyone in the comment section has read the series up to Heir of Fire but honestly that book ruined the series for me. I absolutely hate Rowan Whitethorn with a passion! I understand if people like him but if you hate him too please rant about it with me.
i thought she meant she was glad she hadn't eaten as if she did, she would have thrown it all back up when meeting the king (from nervousness/fear or just hater or disgust i'm not sure) other than that THIS IS ALL SO TRUEE OMGGGG
I "read" this this month....I also DNF'd this this month. I completely agree nothing was right. I couldn't get into it, at all. I also tried reading it and listening to the audio book, couldn't do it. I got to ch....11? I think. idk about 125 pages in. but this video! I love this! so much!!
that part where she says that she was glad she hadn't eaten yet... Im pretty sure she thought that because she was so scared to see the king that she would have thrown up if she had anything in her stomach... so yeah :P
The "she was glad she hadn't eaten" wasn't because she wanted to look skinnier, but rather that she couldn't throw up her breakfast at the sight of the king :)
I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! I'm sorry but I read this aged 14 (maybe age influenced) but I fell in love, recommended to friends and searched high and low for the rest. Now I am 17 and obsessing over the new book. Not saying your opinion is wrong I just disagree!!!
The prequels of the book are hard to like too. When I first meet Celeana, she has a prejudice view that slaves should be freed but there are no explanations of why, what happened and how
Did you use straws to mark the pages because there’s no point in wasting perfectly good sticky notes on this shit? Me too, me too. My friend gave me her copy and i read in around 45 pages before deciding that the paper better operated as firewood for a s’mores making-session, and delightedly offered it to the fire in retribution for its crappy content (It was totally worth it. I hope Salena or Caelena or Selena or whatever burnt in that fire).
Very refreshing and interesting to see a bad review for this book. You made this so funny but you were so mean lol. All those beeps ! I totally understand what you are saying.
I actually thought that when Celaena said she was glad she didnt eat she meant it as she felt like throwing up because it seemed like she was nervous of being infront of the king.Also throughout the book she seemed to get sick alot
And she has had life handed to her on a silver plate, she was the heir of the assassins, and her masters favourite.And she has killed countless people in the past, and is alot stronger than the men in the competition.And the whole "I will not be afraid" helped her get through a year worth of torture and abuse, while following her lovers death.
I still want to play a drinking game with this book where you take a shot every time the books starts talking about how #stunning Celaena is... -snort-
Alright, first of all. Everyone has their right to their own opinions. I will respect that so I don’t want any negative comments. There are a lot of things I feel a lot of people who don’t like the book are focusing on. Like the towns, the books she reads. My first point on this, no author is perfect, no amount of editing is going to fix everything to match perfectly. Second, I feel like people are reading the one of glass as a single book. Throne of glass is NOT meant to be read as a stand alone! There are how many peoples? Six or seven, that’s off the top of my head. Plus another five or six short stories to explain even more! If anyone who hasn’t read the books is reading this, throne of glass is merely the first chapter of our assassins life that we learn of. Her love for dresses and being clean, everyone has a right to their own opinion. If you want a book to be realistic then the characters must have their own likes and dislikes. Hers, when you read the rest of the books, are obvious through her origin! And her up bringing! As well as the expectations of the society she lives. Nearly everything you bring up has a response, she likes to read, that has purposes to have her meet more people and bring another setting into the book, this setting helps with the development of the plot! A plot I feel you are all looking at in small sections and not the big picture. How many questions are left at the end of this book? It’s been a while since I’ve read the first book and I’ve read the rest since, so I apologise if I get a little mixed up between them. As far as I can think off the top of my head. We still haven’t the slightest clue as to why magic disappeared. We know nearly nothing of her family, her up bringing, Who Sam is, why her hatred of the king is so deep, the full details of how she ended up in the salt mines, and so so so much more that was so lightly hinted at that it would be a huge spoiler to even mention. So for people who haven’t read the books, please give them a shot, I promise you, the blot alone is worth it, never mind how the characters develop and the new characters that come into play. For people who have read only the first book, and didn’t bother with the rest because you didn’t like it. Give the next book a try, I promise you the plot is amazing and you will love the moments where you realise the small connections found out in the last book and remember the clues dropped in the first! For people who have read more than the first book and still don’t like the series. Then I applaud you for giving them a good chance. Not everyone will like every book. But I only ask that you don’t tell others he book is bad just because you didn’t like it because there are many who do. Personally if I was asked about a book I didn’t like, take the hobbit for an example. I’d tell them why, in this case I just didn’t like the writing style, nothing to do with the plot, or characters. But I would remind others that’s my personal opinion and to give it a shot anyway if they were even slightly interested. For anyone who has read my long winded rant thank you, and I hope you take this into consideration whenever you read any book you first struggle with, I know I give book a fair chance. I not only don’t judge a book by its cover, but by chapters and even several books into the series.
imagine if throughout the hunger games katniss (and everything around her) kept saying that she is gonna ace this thing and there is just one guy who will make her sweat in the end but she will beat him too.
if she was such an amazing assassin, she wouldn't be so....emotional otherwise she'd be having mental breakdowns everytime she threatened to kill someone
She wasn't saying "I'm glad I didn't eat" because she wanted to be skinny for the king! She hates him! She was saying that because she was so terrified she felt like she was going to puke!
I have never read the book and most likely won't ever...but this made me laugh so hard, I was crying in my cubicle at work. I need to go watch all of ur other videos now.
I liked Celaena but agree with you that there there was way too much description about the clothes. What about giving her some credit for being unselfish when she helped Nox with his archery, saved him from falling while climbing the castle and giving him good advice to leave before he got killed?
YESSSS! You don’t understand how many times I rolled my eyes during this book! Thank you for vocalizing all my thoughts exactly! This book frustrated me sooo much! AND, I listened to this whole freakin book on audible. I hated the narrators voice. She definitely amplified the sassy tones. Ugh.
I hate when people rant on the story and they don’t read the entire series. She is 18 years old, she is a teenager. Also when she meet the king she was glad she had not eaten because the king had killed all of her family, her kingdom, her friends, and burned and enslaved them.
I LOVE the series, but you're HILARIOUS and I've never noticed some of the things you've mentioned and they've never bothered me; but I'm pretty sure I will notice them from now on when I re-read. HAHAHA!!!!
i totally agree that Celaena's personality was incongruous with her circumstances, but I also kind of liked that it denied all the stereotypes - like, she's girly and shallow but also a badass. And she does go through some pretty great character development over the course of the next books (even if it does seem super forced), although it WOULD be nice if she had any redeeming qualities when she's first introduced.
So what if so was arrogant and full of herself, I have read many many of male characters being arrogant,jerk and self absorbed loved n fangirled upon, I like her character tough, she is nosy and immature sometimes, n most of the time I was waiting for her to actually kill someone, but still okay I love her!!
+Paulina Elizabeth N It doesn't matter what she's done in previous short stories, this is the beginning of a series, and SJM began in the worst way... By TELLING us Celaena was an assassin but NEVER showing us throughout the whole story. That is some weak storytelling. And then she demands to be respected for it? That is the pinnacle of immaturity. "Look how awesome I am, everybody clap for me." She is not a likable character. I don't think you understand that KILLING PPL FOR A LIVING would have some serious psychological effects on you, and make you very humble and reserved, either that or insane. Celaena on the other hand is just a brat with no empathy.
And as far as my critique goes, I don't go looking for mistakes to nitpick. I go into every story with an open mind, I even ignore many minor things, but when they all start to build up, it's un-ignorable and inexcusable. Such is the case here. It's very clear SJM just sat down and started writing what she would think is 'cool' for Celaena to do, and eventually formed some sort of a story out of it. And it's clear not a whole lot of thought went into it and that does not make for a book that I'd enjoy.
+stiqula I understand why you don't like the book so let me start first-off by saying I'm not criticising your opinion or anything like that. But personally I got the sense that telling us Celaena was an assassin without really showing it was a deliberate decision. Celaena thinks pretty damn highly of herself. I definitely got the sense that she thinks she's a better assassin than she is, and that the reputation Arobynn encourages actually exaggerates her abilities somewhat.
I also think that killing people for a living would have different effects on different people. In order to cope with it, and with the guilt, you'd have to develop a lack of empathy, or the ability to bury the guilt by telling yourself they deserve it/it's just how the world works, etc, which is what Celaena does.
I understand why you don't like the character because I didn't like her much either at first (I've been reading the whole series and, minor spoiler, she becomes more likeable). But I'm the sort of person who can cope with disliking the main character to quite a considerable degree. In fact, I tend to dislike books where the main character is likeable because that usually means they don't make mistakes and have no character growth. But of course, if you completely hate a character, that also makes the book unreadable.
Anyway, I'm not trying to pick an argument or anything, I just wanted to add my 2 cents worth.
+stiqula just to let you know in alot of the books she killed an ASS LOAD of people...I DOUBT YOU EVEN READ THE WHOLE BOOK. come on man.
+gamerkid weekly she kills no one in TOG, did YOU read the book?
+Ellie5259 I would have bought into your arguement IF Caelena EVER had a relevant monologue about her "profession" or if someone at least thought it of her.
Heck, this is how my sensitive character got an interest in her assasin boyfriend - she saw the sadness beneath the mask of arrogance
+IchibanOjousama yes i did i read the WHOLE FUCKING SERIES...i never said she did um exept for the demon in the abandoned tunnels with damaris. but in all the other books she did...sooooo checkmate ig? GG
Also I feel like Celaena was just a mash of everything the author wanted us to like. It was almost like 'PLEASE JUST LIKE HER HERE SHE LOVES BOOKS, SHE LOVES DOGS, SHE LOVES MUSIC, SHE IS SASSY, BUT ALSO EMOTIONAL, OH DID I FORGET SHE ALSO IS A BAD ASS' ugh
True!
a mary sue xD
There is no such thing as a mary sue, the term was just made by authors who are saying 'That character does not fit my standers, MARY SUE!'
Granted there are characters who should exist, but the term mary sue is just over used.
EveryThingGirl238
Mary Sues are all around us and Caelena is one of the biggest one of them all
Really, she has flaws, she had to background, she had character and nothing comes to her automatically. A mary sue isn't just 'all powerful' That is not what makes a mary sue.
What makes a mary sue is being all powerful AND having all your problems solved rather quickly.
If there is no real struggle to the plot of a character, then they would be considered a mary sue.
The worst thing about the book is declaring she is the best assassin in the world at the beginning, that’s make no god damn sense at all, she is young, good at fighting( just good, not OP), emotional, can’t make decision logically, and she is the best......What the F.....
If she is an in-experienced but talent young assassin, she has some very strong skills but also weakness that she has to working on, the story would be more interesting, and yet the author just make her a boring Mary Sue.
When I started reading, I thought she was supposed to be a deeply flawed character on purpose.. I mean dear lord that arrogance. Turns out this is just your typical female power trip YA story
When I read this I felt like the author made Celaena too perfect, like "oooh she's so attractive and all the women wanna be her and all the men want her, she's witty and intelligent and can also use all these weapons, she's so tough but look how sensitive and sweet, and she's an assassin and soooo closed off but she makes a friend with a princess in five seconds, and she speaks multiple languages." I hate characters like that! I enjoyed the premise, and I enjoyed the character of Dorian and especially Nox. If I were to recommend another book with a similar premise with a well thought out love triangle, I would go with 'The Crown's Fate' by Evelyn Skye.
(I know you may not care, and I know that this is a year late, but I'm putting a SPOILER WARNING here anyways.)
Attractive, yes. Her past explains that in later books, seeing as she's revealed to be Fae, and Fae always tend to be portrayed as beautiful/handsome creatures in most myths, legends and stories. After being in a slave mine for a year kinda changed that for a while, though. She was trained as an assassin from age eight with a master who never gave her a break and forced her to smash her own hand, or he'd do it for her. Of course she'd be good with weapons. Not to mention that rampage she went on with a pickax before finally gaining a sword. She can be sweet and sensitive, true, but her true weak points aren't really shown in this book. She speaks multiple languages because many people in the slave mine with her were from a different country, and one of them taught her while they were suffering together. She's only closed off to certain people. You'd find that if you read the other books in the series. I get that not liking the first book in a series would make you not want to read the rest, but a lot of the things make more sense if you do with this particular series. She and Nehemia essentially bond over the fact that they both know how to speak the foreign language, and their mutual dislike of Kaltain, which turned into a friendship. It's not like the friendship lasts for long, though, seeing as the princess dies halfway through the second book. Sarah slowly weaves different plans in her writing that come into play later on in the series. You say she's too perfect, but she has many flaws that you simply can't see. Flaws that you can't see in this book, and flaws that cone into play later on.
(I'm just gonna add in a little something here and say that the series gets better as it goes along.)
Don't read the rest. The quality remains the same. Still a garbage.
@@aelinaag Bro she's fucking trash and extremely hypocritical and should learn her place. She bosses Dorian around despite him being a royal himself and repeatedly blamed Chaol for something that was not his fault?
Read the ENTIRE franchise and I was really bothered by the love story between Celaena, the guard (whatever his name was) and the prince (Also forget his name). She lowkey led them on for like TWO BOOKS. And then ends up with someone completely different in the end... Like what?
The guard (Chaol) The Prince (Dorian). I'm like towards the end of the 2nd book
I cannot express how happy I am that I'm not the only one who had these opinions! I totally agree with all of this video.
***Spoilers***
Something that realllllyyy got under my skin about Celaena is how she was good at frickin everything, like, sit down at a piano after not playing it for years on end and turn out a perfect tune? NO! I can't even remember a piano piece I learned a few months ago, no amount of princess training can do that.
On the topic of princess, that plot twist was visible a mile away.
Also, extra points for an AC reference xD
WaterLillyxo lolol agreed :P
I only read Throne of glass by Sarah J Maas, and I will continue to wonder for the rest of my life how on earth it's so popular. I don't even care how people keep saying that 'it gets better' because I hate absolutely everything about it and cannot imagine how it can be fixed. It is by far the book I hate most out of everything I have ever read. It is so refreshing to find a level-headed review for once instead of the usual baseless gushing 😣 It's such a shame too, I really don't enjoy being frustrated by books. It would have been so much better for me if I could be pleased easily.
If you one day want to try again, I’d recommend reading the next book in the series. If you don’t like it still after that then yeah I’d abandon it
LMFAO. I laughed so much because the part about the "champion is a dressed up word for murderer" totally floored me when I was reading it too. I was just... so blown away. Like... the book cover says she's an assassin?? The book reminds us every chapter?
I get the feeling that Celaena's whole character could have worked so much better if she wasn't a great assassin YET, like she was trying to become one and kept tripping over her own pride. Maybe she could have had a much better character arc where she learnt the value of humility and making mistakes and overcoming overconfidence or whatever. but instead she just looked like a massive Mary Sue lmao.
Good idea!
There's a prequel book that shows how she becomes such a great assassin.
Gabrielle Veneziale
she is NOT an assasin!
+IchibanOjousama She was prior to when the first book started. The prequel is about her time as an assassin, leading up to when she was caught, as well as how she was caught.
Gabrielle Veneziale
I have read books 0, 1, 2 & 3 and she never acts like an assasin, she is prone to fits of inhumane rage and crazy behaviour such as showing people her chewed food in her mouth, she makes showy entrances (assasins should be unnoticeable/untraceable) and everyone creeps up on her all the time (never hears anyone approaching) and is a bitch in general to people for no reason and hates all Caltain for being into fashion and for liking Dorian, as if she's any better.
i had the exact same feeling about Celaena. i felt cheated actually. i felt that she was not the notorious assassin she was supposed to be. she overhyped herself too much. i'm all for confident characters, but not one with a gigantic head on her shoulders.
Blue Lily and Blue so talk as much shit as you want but at least back yourself up a little
Shes a teenager.
Michael Smith She’s a teenager who kills for a living
@@MichaelSmith-zx5lwSo was Katniss and she wasn't even as assassin but she delivered.
This guy is fucking hilarious
Greg Smith he makes a good point
"She doesn't kill anyone during the course of this book" ppffFFF
when you were jerking your chin everywhere "my arms don't work" hahahaha
and when you played the audiobook clips. i'm dead.
this is literally the realest review i've ever seen. these were my exact thoughts while reading it. i was wondering if i might have read the wrong book because i just couldn't see what other people saw?
i just didn’t understand the pacing. by page 200 it just seemed like Dorian and Chaol were just taking turns barging into Celaena’s room and then trying to pretend they weren’t attracted to her. and i was actually excited to read about the challenges but Sarah J. Maas kept either breezing through them or skipping them completely. it would be like “oh and since the last page three challenges passed… but look! Dorian is in Celaena’s room again. He’s teaching her billiards!”
sarawithoutanH YAASSSS Agree %100000!! XD
sarawithoutanH I know right, I was like another a love triangle omg.
Truth she downplayed the murder bits and emphasised the love triangle
Like EVERY OTHER FUCKING TEEN BOOK GODDAMN IT WRITERS GIVE US A NEW STORY
*goes back to enders game and other books with NO FRICKING LOVE STORY*
Lucy Daniel lt just gets worse as the books progress. Like its stopped being a love triangle,but it just doesn't even make sense anymore. Heir of Fire was okay but then a random characters are introduced. OMG I swear it got crazy. Basically I didn't even read the last one because basically a lot of my favorites got just got shited on which I couldn't understand because they had wonderful character development in the recent books.
Omg yes the pacing. It annoyed me so much.
Red? Crimson? Nah, blood orange.
I could just stop at YESYESYESYES but I'll explain because let's face it I love to rant and complain.
See, my problem isn't even that Celaena is unlikeable. I love unlikeable character. It's that she's not entirely supposed to be unlikeable? I feel like I'm supposed to think 'Yeah! Celaena's awesome and sassy and wow so cool!' but she just annoys me. She's so oblivious to everything! also. I'm sorry. I just can't buy the whole she's 18 and some sort of assassin prodigy. Sorry. No. You're not. also, the whole part where Chaol has to explain to her why she needs to stay in the middle just made me smh so bad. I didn't even mind the girly stuff/descriptions of clothes; that would have been an interesting trait if the rest of Celaena wasn't so annoying. also omg that audio clip WHY. WHY.
okay I'll stop now. and this is only after reading about 150pgs :P
Story Nut Exactly. The author wants her to be cool, but fails miserably at it. I totally agree that if she'd written her to BE unlikable, that would have been great, but instead she tried to force Celaena to be something she wasn't... She wanted her character to be EVERYTHING, and it turned out a conflicting mess. YOU JUST CANT BE A DOG-LOVING, HIGH-MAINTINENCE, ENTITLED BRAT WHO SHIES AWAY FROM KILLING PPL AND THINKS SHE'S BETTER THAN EVERYONE AND ALSO BE AN ASSASSIN WHITH A HORRIBLE PAST THAT WATCHED PPL GET RAPED AND BETTEN FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR IN THE SALT MINES. NO. In reality Celaena should have been in her 20s and very fucked up, with a lot of internal issues going on, coming to terms with the idea that soon she would be free (for the first time in her life). She would NOT be stuck up and worried about such superficial bullshit like what she was going to wear next or which princeling she wanted to bang. THAT is what this story should have been. Ok, I'm done. :P
I love this book, and the characters; but this is so funny.
Although the only thing I would say is she didn't eat before seeing the king wasn't because she wanted to look thin, but because she thought she would throw up.
why "love" it?
+IchibanOjousama I love it too it’s one of my favorite books lol
+IchibanOjousama Also, very late reply I apologize
Great video! It was really funny and entertaining! I really liked listening to his point of view. I understand, and even agree with some of his points (although some of those were explained in the follow up books -like for example [SPOILER] the competition for the king's champion was held so the king could experiment with using the wyrdmarks to steal the strength from the other competitors. They were supposed to be training, get stronger so that Cain could use the wyrdmarks, kill them and get all that extra strength. And, in the end he would be the champion, stronger than everybody and still be under the king's control. Although the king is not even the big boss . And she is the princess of Terassen, even if she had spent all her child/teenager years being forced to train and kill. [/spoiler]).
But, I still like this book very much. 😬😁
Also, I think she uses 'rooms' because her room has a semi formal dining room, the bed room, bathroom and a separate room for the walk in closet. (At least, that's what I understood from the audiobook)
What took me out the story was that she tells us that she knows how to use every weapon, she plays the paionoforte, she likes to read and she is the worlds best assassin. And she has learned all this in 10 years, and also during those ten years have made a reputation as being the best assassin. That's just too much for 10 yearsto make me believe she did it.
I also think Dorian was boring. He didn't know how to act around women, even though he was getting engaged a few years back. And Chaol, who is the captain of the kings guard, but never killed anybody.
And the killing is bad, but we still have deathcamps... and we don't find that problematic.
Just finished "Throne of Glass" and I'm glad to have found someone who feels the same way about this book as I do! Like you I didn't hate this book but I found it very underwhelming especially when considering all the praise it got.
I too was annoyed with many of the same things you were. Celaena felt like a Mary Sue to me. I mean, she is badass and a warrior and super beautiful and everyone loves her except the bad guys yadda yadda yadda
One thing you didn't mention but that also really bugged me: It is being repeated over and over again that she survived a death camp but I never really bought it. The way she acted it always seemed like she just spend a year at a really shitty school and not A FREAKING DEATH CAMP! Imean, when I hear death camp I think places like Ausschwitz and I'm pretty sure that the people who made it out of there alive were completely traumatized. We are only told how horrible that camp was but we never see any evidence of that in the way Calaena acts ...
Anyways, thank your for this very entertaining and funny review!
+GirlintheSea lol I agree with you xD
by the way, her hidden 'past' is too impossible to imagine. Scratch that. I saw it coming. It was obvious, but it would be impossible in her circumstance. She already has that awesome assassin reputation, but then you add THAT to the mix?! How special is this character? THAT special? she is too special that I can't even relate to her. Rich, athletic, gorgeous, mysterious hidden past that makes her 100x more special to ridiculous levels of Mary-Sueness...
I won't tell you 'cause I hate spoiling things.
Now I just couldn't resist and had to look it up haha (good thing there is a 'Throne of Glass' wiki). And just OMG ...
I'll add a spoiler warning for other readers out here just in case so *SPOILER*
The first thing I thought when I read your comment was: 'Gee, I hope the author didn't give her the 'Spaceballs' treatment and made her the heir of some lost kingdom'. But. That. Is. Exactly. What. Happened!
I mean, that trope is so overused that 'Spaceballs' used it as a joke in the 80s!
You can definitely see that this story started out as fanfiction.
+GirlintheSea She's a walking cliche. -____- It's so disappointing to me that ppl actually like this crap. I get it if you're younger and have NEVER READ A STORY BEFORE. But for ppl in their 20's.... ugh.
stiqula I do get how people can like this story, it's an easy read. But people who genuinely think this is a well written and original story ... well ... :P
I couldn't even finish the book. Very disappointed at booktube for hyping it up.
Sarah J. Maas should have played an Assassin's Creed game before writing a novel about an "assassin"... Altaïr, Ezio, Connor, Aveline, and even Edward would laugh at Celaena. Some assassin she is!
Omg that was my favourite thing, I'm actually shocked you're not more popular. You're review was actually honest 😂 another thing that pissed my off was when she received the sweets and just didn't even think that they could be poisoned, even after there was killer on the loose 😂👏👏👏👏 I think you're my new favourite book tuber
Ewan Mckay THANK YOU YOU'RE SO RIGHT ABOUT THE SWEETS!!!! XD
Lmao Ezio Auditore like “I have to kill Rodrigo Borgia but first let me pick out a cuter outfit, this one is so drab”
Ok this review/rant was everything.
I knew I didn't particularly like this book but I just couldn't put my finger on why until watching this video
I like the plot but not the way Sarah writes. When we start off in Endovier and Caleana sees the world outside of the labor camp for the first time in a year I would think that more describing would go into the scene. Sarah tries to make Caleana into this complex character but all I see is a happy go girl who suddenly gets angry out of nowhere. She doesn't feel like shes gone through what she has. But when Calaena starts kissing Dorian or Chaol then the author dives into detail about how they smell and the color of their eyes and the heat that shoots through Caleana's body woo hoo. Plus she forgots little things like how she keeps mentioning that no one can sneak up on the QUEEN OF ASSASINS but people somehow manage to do it everytime?! I dont know, i really like this plot and people say it gets better in heir of fire so I'm giving it a shot. Its not necessarily a bad book but it just doesnt have depth. I would only recommend this series to people who dont read in depth into characters
Yeah.
Nice storyline.
Shitty writer.
It’s def one of those books with a good plot and bad writing
Even though I like this series (not the first book, that one was just meh), you made me laugh so hard. THANK YOU. Also people need to chill out. Not everyone is going to like this series and Celaena is quite difficult to digest in the first book and in general.
I’ve always disliked Celaena. I think that Aelin is better.
Aelin is worse tbh... so entitled to everything.
I laughed so hard while watching this I think I'm in love with you this was so spot on and perfect. I was reading it because everyone was always screaming about how awesome it was and I thought there was something wrong with me. I feel represented. Thank you for this.
THANK you for pointing out the tongue clicking! I just read the "A Court of Thorns and Roses"-series, the characters there were doing it all the time and it annoyed me so much
I love you. I seriously love you.Finally a negative review on that book and someone who hates Celaena.Your critique was so spot on and funny.You said all the things I had problem with while reading it.I wanted to hit every character in the face with their book.Thank you.
+mariapol17 Haha! You're very welcome! XD
mariapol17 true honestly
... Basically everyone in the comments doesn't like this book/series. Then there is me and my friends who love it
i feel bad for y'alls >->
Lol same
Lol same 😂
Thank you for sharing Megan very cool
It's two year comment at this point. i don't know how old were you back then, but I dare you - if you're a reader, go back to this book when you're like... 25-30 yo.
I bet you'll delete your comment in shame faster than n.korean goverment deletes "Kim die!' ones togerher with their commenters and their entire families.
OMG YES! They just didn't work together!! I so thought it was medical like...and then I'm like...wait whaaaaat? I'm confused by these people, their urban dialogue and this character who makes no sense. "She doesn't care about her own story...she'd rather read someone else's." LOL YESS The prequel is much better...BUT I'm sorry your first book can't be a sad story because the prequel written later on is better and will make the first book make more sense...NO NO NO!! LOL That audio book...I'm waiting for her to "go see Pa and have tea with him on the plantation porch." LOL
This review was beautiful.
I swear I've watched this entire video like 10 times, it's that hilarious XD
Your review is funny,honest and refreshing i'm glad i found your channel
I found this review several years ago, and I find myself coming back to it just for entertainment! haha
Finally someone that I agree with ,since for a while i thought i was the only one that didnt like the book ,i guess the only charecters i enjoyed about the entire book were chaol and princess nehemia ,nothing else :/
I've never even read this book, but I've watched this video at least five times. There's something extremely gratifying about watching somebody tear a book to shreds.
Side note, it's super petty, but I feel like I would have a hard time with this book purely because her name is Celaena. Like I couldn't make myself read Graceling because I couldn't deal with Katsa and Po. Some names just stick in my craw like that and I can't go on.
This is the best review I’ve seen for this yet. Please come back and make more reviews!!!
I was laughing like a maniac.....this was so accurate and so perfect! ❤️
HERE COMES THE CRIMSON CHIN
The "I am Calaena Sardothien, and I will not be afraid." is a actually one of the most meaningful lines. It's something Sam told her about before he died, and it is something she says throughout the entire series. When she was in the wagon on the way to Endovier, when she was terrified and heartbroken and wondering if dying would be better than a death camp, right after Sam had died brutally, she said "I am Calaena Sardothien, and I will not be afraid." Every time she's scared, that's her security blanket. You can tell I love Throne of Glass, I don't know why I clicked on this XD
Yes I agree with you xD...
DancesWithBeauty It's so poorly written and she is one of the absolutely shallowest person I've ever read about. She's a fucking shitty assassin, she can't even tell the difference between an average sized woman's footprints and a 7 foot tall mans. I could do a better job than her. It reads like poorly written Wattpad fanfiction and the story line is basic at best. She has ONE CHANCE to win her freedom and she spends it admiring herself in the mirror, napping, bitching, being a brat, reading really late at night right before challenges, and trying/failing to be a badass chick when she's just a shallow, waifish bitch. She's just an overall idiotic, generic "I'm a heroine and I'm badass but I also fall for 15 guys at once and can do anything and I can't die" character. It's just so fucking boring and it's like every other trying to be badass character ever (Katniss and Tris). I only made it through this book by running around my house yelling about how fucking imbecilic she is while my family stared. I expected a badass assassin and I got a self obsessed, romanticized, shallow idiot, needless to say I was thoroughly disappointed.
That is amazing! Is a shame we didn't have that information on the first novel! Even as a prologue or something. Going in the first book without this information makes the experience worse.
LeaTheHatless the first book was definitely the weakest book of the series. The plot gets way more complicated and unique, which is actually heavily foreshadowed in the first book a couple times.
I guess at this point I might wait for the last book to be released and see if the story gets a good ending. Maybe I will pick it up.
His celeana impression is hilarious
It has been 8 years since this video was posted but every once in a while I still bring it up and watch it because it's so frickin' hilarious! I Love this video and the commentary is spot on. Personally, I enjoyed this book and read a few more books from the series (not all of them) ,however, after watching this video, I never saw Celaena the same way again. I also gained a higher expectation for main characters in books. Still love this video and will probably rewatch in the future.
Yes! Finally! I've found someone who doesn't like it! I thought the exact same things as you said, and I was so confused to why it was getting so many amazing reviews. I couldn't even finish the book :/
SetASpark damn you couldn't even finish the book???! That's messed up. I stopped reading in the middle for two months and then thought I'll give it another try and then finished it. It....wasn't bad. 😬🤷♀️And ppl told me it gets better so I'll read the next one The Crown of Midnight
Ethiopian Auditore may not be the best example for “not caring what he wears”. That man’s robes always looked stylish.
man, where have you been all my life. You said EVERYTHING i hated about this book in the funniest way possible
I've never read this but I I've been hearing so many awesome things about it, and it was getting to the point it was obviously getting over hyped, I'm so glad I found someone who genuinely dislikes this book
She said she was glad she didn’t eat cause she was going to throw up. She doesn’t kill anyone in this one because she has guards on her ass every minute. And she is a teenager. The I will not be afraid bit actually means she is scared.
(Sorry but these few points just seemed off to me. Not trying to bash your opinion. Anyway have a nice day people :) )
I felt the exact same way with the world she describes! She acts like its a LOTR midieval world and then she had a parasol and all these french style gowns that makes no sense so I was confused.
Well I would feel like it would make more sense that if in the future books it would show that she had been forced to be an assassin and that she didn’t like it and that all she really wanted to be was just a normal person, normal girl. But then when you get into her brain and she’s like “oh I’m the best!” it’s like what is going on here? It’s true the way she acts and the way she thinks are completely contradictory.
she was glad she didn’t eat yet, bc she would have puked if she had. she’s terrified of the king, bc he killed her parents. you would know if you read the first book or continued the series... its called a series for a damn reason. you must read all of the books to get the full picture.
Thought I would hate this review, but I actually love it!!! I learned a lot about writing too!
If you read the prequel you will understand why she is called an assasin. It's called the assasin's blade. Also the story is about the competition to BECOME the king's assasin, not being his assasin.
Still lazy writing. Maybe the prequels are better but this book just betrayed my expectations. I was expecting intrigue, fantasy and murder. But all I got was a love story with some dressing. I should not have to read books that were written later in order to respect her title. Her not murdering anyone is an insult.
'Give ourselves a good foundation... to shit upon'😂😂😂
Thanks for this video, you definitely made me laugh, and made quite a few valid points.
I was mostly annoyed by how hard the author pushed Celaena into the assassin role, while never proving it in her character or actions. People walked right up to her without her ever noticing them, she never went anywhere silently and stealthily, she was always noticed and even worse wanted to be noticed. She actually got angry that she was supposed to hide her identity and that people didn't know who she was. What assassin WANTS people to recognize them? A few times she gloated about her skill, but then was hurt that people were weary of her, afraid she might kill somebody. She had too many chances to take out people she thought were bad, but only thinks about killing people because they said something that wasn't pleasant about her or looked at her wrong. I could go on, but there's no need to. Queen of assassins, she was not.
The writing was definitely off. I noticed myself skipping a lot of the text because it wasn't useful and interesting, or it was annoying. Endless talk of dresses, getting dressed, I don't like this dress, I don't like that thing or this thing or whatever. Why did an assassin need help getting dressed every damned time? I felt a few parts were contrived to the point I started getting angry and talking at the book. Example: Celaena begins to think Nehemia is the one killing champions. This is absurd because she didn't have any real motive. If she were to kill people, it would have been the king and his noblemen, not some thieves and killers that were there for some random year long tournament in order to be the king's assassin, which never made sense either. I could write an essay and provide quotes and the whole nine, but it's not worth it unless I was to be paid for it. Too bad, I'd be really good at it.
It was an interesting story, and I could definitely see why people like it, but I had to ignore a lot of text in order to be happy with it. My mind easily recognizes most faults, and I can ignore a few small ones here and there, but every other page I was disconnected with a character (usually the main character), the plot, or thrown by the disconcerting writing. The one thing that really crushed me was that I was really hoping to see a badass main character that wasn't overpowered or didn't feel fake. Almost every MC in a book is nice but weak, nice but invincible, or a wannabe badass whose power doesn't matter cause I just want to rewrite their whole character and pay someone to have a new book made with my corrections just for me.
When she said she's glad she hasn't eaten yet, she meant that she's glad she won't throw up the food in front of the King. It's not because she's worrying about her appearance.
Fight me...
+Celaena Sardothien LOLOLOL OMG LET'S GO!!!! XD
+stiqula I'M FLAWLESS!!!
This is a beautiful comment chain.
Idk if anyone in the comment section has read the series up to Heir of Fire but honestly that book ruined the series for me. I absolutely hate Rowan Whitethorn with a passion! I understand if people like him but if you hate him too please rant about it with me.
i thought she meant she was glad she hadn't eaten as if she did, she would have thrown it all back up when meeting the king (from nervousness/fear or just hater or disgust i'm not sure)
other than that THIS IS ALL SO TRUEE OMGGGG
Hey man. I just wanted to say that I LOVE every minute of this review and have at least watched it 6 time. It makes me laugh every time
I hate Caelena too!
+IchibanOjousama XD
NO! SHE IS AWESOME!!!!
+megan eanes How?
Meg What book did you read? It surely is not the same one I read.
This review is pure GOLD
I "read" this this month....I also DNF'd this this month. I completely agree nothing was right. I couldn't get into it, at all. I also tried reading it and listening to the audio book, couldn't do it. I got to ch....11? I think. idk about 125 pages in. but this video! I love this! so much!!
In Cold Lit lololol that AUDIOBOOK was UNBEARABLE!!!
stiqula it really was!!
Oh I'm so glad I'm not the only one who doesn't really like this .. um ... entire book.
"But in reality, she doesn't doubt herself for a god damn minute." You crack me up.
that part where she says that she was glad she hadn't eaten yet... Im pretty sure she thought that because she was so scared to see the king that she would have thrown up if she had anything in her stomach... so yeah :P
"I'll be in my rooms."
Sounds like something I would say to ma and pa when I'm acting as if I'm the richest dude alive and live in a palace. 😂
The "she was glad she hadn't eaten" wasn't because she wanted to look skinnier, but rather that she couldn't throw up her breakfast at the sight of the king :)
"Am I reading Mean Girls?" Looks over book cover. I fucking love your reviews.
I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! I'm sorry but I read this aged 14 (maybe age influenced) but I fell in love, recommended to friends and searched high and low for the rest. Now I am 17 and obsessing over the new book. Not saying your opinion is wrong I just disagree!!!
7:30 ...ugh...
She said that because in The Assassins Blade, her an Sam wanted to forget their assassin ways.
The prequels of the book are hard to like too. When I first meet Celeana, she has a prejudice view that slaves should be freed but there are no explanations of why, what happened and how
Did you use straws to mark the pages because there’s no point in wasting perfectly good sticky notes on this shit? Me too, me too. My friend gave me her copy and i read in around 45 pages before deciding that the paper better operated as firewood for a s’mores making-session, and delightedly offered it to the fire in retribution for its crappy content (It was totally worth it. I hope Salena or Caelena or Selena or whatever burnt in that fire).
I CAME HERE TO TELL YOU OFF!!!!!!!
...but then you made me laugh so......
+A-Shea J. Hahaha! :3
Same xD
Very refreshing and interesting to see a bad review for this book. You made this so funny but you were so mean lol. All those beeps ! I totally understand what you are saying.
DavidReadsWords Lol, I'm not trying to be mean. It's just frustrating :P
Lmao yeah I get you! That thumbnail is killing me too ! 😂😂
Thanks! XD
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen on TH-cam. The main character seems mad inconsistent 🤣🤣🤣
I actually thought that when Celaena said she was glad she didnt eat she meant it as she felt like throwing up because it seemed like she was nervous of being infront of the king.Also throughout the book she seemed to get sick alot
And she has had life handed to her on a silver plate, she was the heir of the assassins, and her masters favourite.And she has killed countless people in the past, and is alot stronger than the men in the competition.And the whole "I will not be afraid" helped her get through a year worth of torture and abuse, while following her lovers death.
I still want to play a drinking game with this book where you take a shot every time the books starts talking about how #stunning Celaena is... -snort-
Alright, first of all. Everyone has their right to their own opinions. I will respect that so I don’t want any negative comments.
There are a lot of things I feel a lot of people who don’t like the book are focusing on. Like the towns, the books she reads.
My first point on this, no author is perfect, no amount of editing is going to fix everything to match perfectly.
Second, I feel like people are reading the one of glass as a single book. Throne of glass is NOT meant to be read as a stand alone! There are how many peoples? Six or seven, that’s off the top of my head. Plus another five or six short stories to explain even more!
If anyone who hasn’t read the books is reading this, throne of glass is merely the first chapter of our assassins life that we learn of.
Her love for dresses and being clean, everyone has a right to their own opinion. If you want a book to be realistic then the characters must have their own likes and dislikes. Hers, when you read the rest of the books, are obvious through her origin! And her up bringing! As well as the expectations of the society she lives.
Nearly everything you bring up has a response, she likes to read, that has purposes to have her meet more people and bring another setting into the book, this setting helps with the development of the plot! A plot I feel you are all looking at in small sections and not the big picture.
How many questions are left at the end of this book?
It’s been a while since I’ve read the first book and I’ve read the rest since, so I apologise if I get a little mixed up between them.
As far as I can think off the top of my head. We still haven’t the slightest clue as to why magic disappeared. We know nearly nothing of her family, her up bringing, Who Sam is, why her hatred of the king is so deep, the full details of how she ended up in the salt mines, and so so so much more that was so lightly hinted at that it would be a huge spoiler to even mention.
So for people who haven’t read the books, please give them a shot, I promise you, the blot alone is worth it, never mind how the characters develop and the new characters that come into play.
For people who have read only the first book, and didn’t bother with the rest because you didn’t like it. Give the next book a try, I promise you the plot is amazing and you will love the moments where you realise the small connections found out in the last book and remember the clues dropped in the first!
For people who have read more than the first book and still don’t like the series. Then I applaud you for giving them a good chance. Not everyone will like every book. But I only ask that you don’t tell others he book is bad just because you didn’t like it because there are many who do.
Personally if I was asked about a book I didn’t like, take the hobbit for an example. I’d tell them why, in this case I just didn’t like the writing style, nothing to do with the plot, or characters. But I would remind others that’s my personal opinion and to give it a shot anyway if they were even slightly interested.
For anyone who has read my long winded rant thank you, and I hope you take this into consideration whenever you read any book you first struggle with, I know I give book a fair chance. I not only don’t judge a book by its cover, but by chapters and even several books into the series.
imagine if throughout the hunger games katniss (and everything around her) kept saying that she is gonna ace this thing and there is just one guy who will make her sweat in the end but she will beat him too.
if she was such an amazing assassin, she wouldn't be so....emotional otherwise she'd be having mental breakdowns everytime she threatened to kill someone
Came here just to have all of my ideas and views about the book spoken out. Agree on every point.
Also, your background is dope!
She wasn't saying "I'm glad I didn't eat" because she wanted to be skinny for the king! She hates him! She was saying that because she was so terrified she felt like she was going to puke!
I have never read the book and most likely won't ever...but this made me laugh so hard, I was crying in my cubicle at work. I need to go watch all of ur other videos now.
I liked Celaena but agree with you that there there was way too much description about the clothes. What about giving her some credit for being unselfish when she helped Nox with his archery, saved him from falling while climbing the castle and giving him good advice to leave before he got killed?
YESSSS! You don’t understand how many times I rolled my eyes during this book! Thank you for vocalizing all my thoughts exactly! This book frustrated me sooo much! AND, I listened to this whole freakin book on audible. I hated the narrators voice. She definitely amplified the sassy tones. Ugh.
omg i died laughing. this video is amazing
I hate when people rant on the story and they don’t read the entire series. She is 18 years old, she is a teenager. Also when she meet the king she was glad she had not eaten because the king had killed all of her family, her kingdom, her friends, and burned and enslaved them.
I honestly wanna see u write a book and see how many people will like it since ur SOOOOOO good at knowing what a book should be!
SourPatches Thats not how fucking reviews work you insolent child.
Omfg what you said about people overusing the word crimson is soo true lmaoo.
Also, she doesn't kill anyone because she doesn't want to go back to prison.
Hahahaha this is genius. Your face turned crimson when you were talking about red vs. crimson
I LOVE the series, but you're HILARIOUS and I've never noticed some of the things you've mentioned and they've never bothered me; but I'm pretty sure I will notice them from now on when I re-read. HAHAHA!!!!
i totally agree that Celaena's personality was incongruous with her circumstances, but I also kind of liked that it denied all the stereotypes - like, she's girly and shallow but also a badass. And she does go through some pretty great character development over the course of the next books (even if it does seem super forced), although it WOULD be nice if she had any redeeming qualities when she's first introduced.
"My rooms" annoyed me too!!!
Read book 2! She is a real Assassin !!!! She killed almost 40 people in this book😤😤😤
Haha, all my feelings about that book resumed in this video.
So what if so was arrogant and full of herself, I have read many many of male characters being arrogant,jerk and self absorbed loved n fangirled upon, I like her character tough, she is nosy and immature sometimes, n most of the time I was waiting for her to actually kill someone, but still okay I love her!!
In book two you find out some deeep stuff about her... I mean like it all links together in book two.