I actually found this review of Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass quite difficult to write. It tells the story of assassin turned prisoner Celaena and her participation in the competition to become the King’s Champion. I LOVED the book and got caught up in the story and characters. However this made it rather tricky to analyse why I liked it so much and what made it work. Nevertheless I’ll give it a go. What I liked The characters. I found our protagonist Celaena Sardothien very engaging and fun to follow. She is strong-willed, smart, resourceful – and very funny. It’s clear her experiences in the prison of Endovier have left their mark on her, both physically and emotionally. Maas did however add in a few quirks to keep her real. I liked that she wasn’t immediately up to full physical strength after her imprisonment and had to balance physical weakness with smarts. The fact that she was terrified to stand on the glass in the glass castle was interesting. The setting. Now, I am a person who has a stronger affinity with words than with pictures, but I loved the mental picture that Maas conjured of the glass castle…