Throne of Glass

03/20/25 • 66 min

"They’d gazed at him adoringly, while she just looked at him like a cat watching a mouse."

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas is the start of the high fantasy series phenomenon that dominates booktok and bookstagram. We meet Celaena Sardothien, Adarlans Assassin and current slave in the Endovier salt mines, as she agrees to compete for Prince Dorian to be the Kings Champion in return for her freedom

Join Jen and Ellie as they look at the characters, writing style, and debate how well they'd do at assassin training.

"They’d gazed at him adoringly, while she just looked at him like a cat watching a mouse."

Join Jen and Ellie as they look at the characters, writing style, and debate how well they'd do at assassin training.

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Circe

Each spell was a mountain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowledge that it could be done.

Circe by Madeline Miller brings us back to ancient Greece and follows the nymph Circe, a powerful witch who is at war with her own divinity. A side character in the Odyssey, Circe takes centre stage as she stuggles with her exile and decides what kind of person she wants to be.

Jen and Ellie set out across the seas in search myth retellings, character development, and how they'd fair against a baby minotaur.

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Crown of Midnight

"Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart."

Crown of Midnight is the second book in the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas, and we stay with Celaena as she navigates going from Adarlans Assassin to the Kings Champion and finding where her allegiances lie.

Jen and Ellie discuss how the world expands, the use of tropes and construction of plot, and most importantly, would they jump through a portal to another dimension for a puppy?