Review: Another Great Novella
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
I really like these prequel novellas by Sarah Maas.  They are an introduction to her series "Throne of Glass" which I am getting more and more eager to read.  I have to read all four of these novellas first.  I suggest other potential readers to the same.  For $4 readers can buy all four of these charming, exciting, fully developed stories.  In this second installment, "The Assassin and the Desert", Celaena is being punished for what she did in the first installment.  The King of the Assassins, (essentially Celaena's owner) sends her to the Red Desert to train with the Mute Master and his group of desert assassins.  She makes a friend quickly, another girl named Ansel.  I loved seeing this friendship develop.  I especially loved the different things that Celaena learned in the desert under the Mute Master.  I think she learned for different lessons that Arobynn, the King of the Assassin's ever imagined.  I enjoyed the scene with the horses very much.  Its so hard to write a review when you don't want to spoil a single surprise.  I will say that this adds very much to the overall story of Celaena and how she comes to be where she is at the beginning of  "Throne of Glass".  I know not a lot of these novellas and prequels are necessary but I just truly think these are.  Plus they are so darn fun to read.  Also I was honestly shocked by the twist in this story.  Maas hit me out of nowhere with the ending of this one.