The Assassin's Blade

Title: The Assassin's Blade

Series: Throne of Glass - prequel novellas

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Rating: 4.5 stars

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Number of Pages: 430

Publication Date: 2014

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Summary: Celaena Sardothien owes her reputation to Arobynn Hamel. He gave her a home at the Assassin's Guild and taught her the skills she needed to survive.

Arobynn's enemies stretch far and wide - from Adarlan's rooftops and its filthy dens, to remote islands and hostile deserts. Celaena is duty-bound to hunt them down. But behind her assignments lies a dark truth that will seal her fate - and cut her heart in two forever...

The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas is a collection of novellas from the Throne of Glass series. These novellas give a back story to how Celaena Sardothien become a prisoner of the Endovier Salt Mines.

Novellas Included:

The Assassin and the Pirate Lord

The Assassin and the Healer

The Assassin and the Desert

The Assassin and the Underworld

The Assassin and the Empire

Sarah has a way of intertwining her stories lines seamlessly; she flawlessly adds scenes throughout this series which later connect to further tell another major plot point, and she even does it all without ruining the surprise. Her writing style is beautiful and unique and she creates a vivid and enthralling world you can't help but love.

If you haven't read the Throne of Glass series, you are missing out. This series which follows the badass assassin Celaena, or Adarlan's Assassin is unique and creative and Celaena as a character makes you feel a wide range of emotions. She suffers through betrayal's, love, friendship and loss. This assassin is no ordinary assassin, she operates in a sphere that is totally her own.

I wasn't as impressed with The Assassin's Blade as I was with the main series but I still was absolutely thrilled to learn more about Celaena. She is a character with a dark and slightly mysterious background and it was nice to get to know who Celaena was before she was sent away to the salt mines.

Because I loved being back in the world of Celaena but wasn't quite as impressed as I was with the actual books of the series, I give The Assassin's Blade 4.5 stars.