Review: I'm going straight away to get the next one
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2012
Oh man, oh man.  I thought I liked the first one, but I loved, loved, loved this second installment!Celaena grew so much over the month we were with her in this book.  The story picks up just a small time after The Assassin and the Pirate Lord ended.  We find out what happened to Celaena and Sam when they get back.  As punishment, Celaena is sent to train in the Red Dessert with The Silent Assassins.  She needs a good recommendation letter from the master, but quickly learns it will be difficult to even get him to train her.We meet her roommate Ansel, the master, the master's son, and Ansel's boyfriend Mikhail.  Even the spidersilk merchant left an impression on me and I suspect we will see him again.  Gah! I can't even say how much I loved this book.  There is a traitor in the silent assassins.  It didn't come as a surprise as to who the traitor was.  But that mattered very little.  We got to see Celaena make her first real friend (Ansel), and grow so much.  In the first book, Celaena comes across as spoiled and very quick to anger as well as conceited.  She mentions how beautiful she is many times, but in this book Celaena experiences many things that make her more humble and gracious than she would have been otherwise.  I am going to miss the master the most.