Review: Heartbreaking!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 22, 2012
***Contains spoilers if you have not read Throne of Glass*****This occurs right before Celaena is captured and sent to the mines.Celaena and Sam want to escape the city and leave the Guild of Assassins with the blessing of Arobynn. But the price Arobynn wants for them will almost clean Celaena out and he knows it. Still she believes it will be worth it if she and Sam can be free to live somewhere else without having to look over their shoulders for an assassin sent by the Guild.This is the story of Celaena and Sam, how they love each other, how patient Sam is with her, how she's so afraid to lose control even with him, but she trusts him more than anything in the world. Arobynn tries to undermine Sam's undeniable trust in Celaena by hinting at her past when her parents died, some secret that scares her more than anything, but Sam tells her she'll tell him when she's ready. He actually has more faith in her than she does in herself.Sam wants to do one more job, one big one to get some money so they'll be set when they leave. They won't have to worry about money after this since Celaena paying Arobynn pretty much wiped them out. So, against her gut and wishes, they take the job. And it's their undoing. They are betrayed. It leaves Celaena on her way to the mines and Sam, her beloved Sam who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with, dead. And her brilliant mind way too much time to consider who it was that betrayed them. We as the readers are let in on the secret, but I believe Celaena is thinking along the wrong lines.I can't wait to find out what happens when she finds out who betrayed her! I hope she guts him like a fish! I definitely recommend this story, but think it's better read after Throne of Glass. Celaena comes across as a bit spoiled in this and I think we see the real Celaena in Throne of Glass.