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Throne of Glass

by Sarah J. Maas

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Throne of Glass is Maas's other long-running series: an assassin competing for her freedom in a tournament that mixes political intrigue with growing supernatural stakes. It starts smaller and more YA than ACOTAR but the series broadens considerably as it goes.

Cover of Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas.

why track this in moth

At eight-plus books deep with companion novellas, this is one of the series Moth's grouping feature was built for: keep your reading order straight as it grows.

Book facts

Genre
Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Action & Adventure, Love & Romance
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published
May 7, 2013
Pages
432
Reading time
8 hr 35 min · ~21 nights at 25 min/day in Moth
ISBN
9781619630345
Language
en

Publisher's summary

In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien.

The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass--and it's there to kill. When her competitors start dying one by one, Celaena's fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world.

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