Throne of Glass

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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, Book 1) by Sarah J. Maas

The root of all YA’s problems 🌱😈

(Now this is going to seem like somewhat of a half-assed review as I will twice redirect you elsewhere, but I promise you, I actually put a lot of thought into this)

I was told I would like the Throne of Glass series a lot more than A Court of Thorns & Roses, and it’s true, I did like it more 👍. But is it actually good? Well... Yes and No.

It’s definitely more intriguing, has better characters and a more established story, but the problem lies in Sarah J. Maas’ reputation. She’s definitely a trendsetter, and what I don’t like is how influential her bad habits would come to be.

One such annoyance is a trend that has completely taken over the YA genre: a main character we’re constantly being told is a badass, but yet they never do anything badass. To me this is everything wrong with character development.

Now I have to apologize here, because I was going to go into much more detail about this issue, but I actually have a blog post coming soon regarding this problem with character development, (a blog post that started out as this very book review, but it became so much that I decided to make it it’s own thing) so stay tuned for that 😉.

The second (which annoys me even more for some reason 😒) is the idea of making the main characters teenagers just so the book can be labeled as YA. Because apparently that’s all it takes, regardless of quality or content, if you want your book to be YA, just change the character’s age 👏🙌.

But this leads to a problem that has only worsened as YA has gotten more mature, in that the character of Celaena Sardothien (which is an awesome name btw) just doesn’t make sense as a teenager. I find it literally unbelievable that a character so young could have so much history.

Again, I apologize, but in the interest of me being too lazy to repeat myself 🥱, I recommend you read my review of Ignite the Stars if you want a better understanding of I mean.