Review: Even Though you Know it is Coming You Can't Look Away.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
“She had believed she could love Sam and not pay the price. Everything has a price, she'd once been told by a Spidersilk merchant in the Red Desert. How right he was.”We all knew it was coming. I mean if you read Throne of Glass you knew that Celaena ended up in Endovier because she was betrayed and her very first love had been killed. But this is the novella that tells of the exact moment when Celaena goes from being Adarlan’s Assassin to its prisoner.This was a harder novella for me to read simply because I really grew to like Sam and he was doomed from the beginning. Also my heart ached for Celaena, because she wants so much to be loved by the man who saved her on the bank of the river but the King of the Assassins seems to use even love as a weapon against her.I really find Arobynn an interesting character. His motivations are selfish and harsh but he is the best assassin so I think that fits him. If he can not possess something he would rather destroy it than share it. His motivations are made so much clearer in this novella. He is the villain none the less. Since Celaena and Sam have moved out he has made their lives hard by blocking anyone from hiring them, hoping they would come back to him. Instead they decided to leave the city and the guild, but to do it they have to pull off one last job. Since it is against the two largest crime lords of the city the bounty is huge but the risk is also enormous.But this is not a HEA kind of tail and the events pass that lead Celaena to be sent to Endovier heartbroken and utterly alone.“She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.And then she would remember how it had felt to be loved, when the world held nothing but possibility. No matter what they did to her, they could never take that away.She would not break.And someday ... someday, even it took her until her last breath, she'd find out who had done this to her. To Sam.”This makes me want to start into the Throne of Glass series again now knowing more of the backstory. These Novellas 0.1-0.4 have really made me connect the Celaena’s character and I think that I would understand her motivations even better now. This is one of my favorite fantasy series and I look forward to seeing what happens to my favorite assassin with a Heart of Gold.