Throne of Glass

2.5/5 Well, I didn't end up totally hating it! And, once the story picked up (ahem, 44 chapters in...), it made me eager to get into the next books. Am I in a a cult? Probably.

I love the idea of a story like this regardless - there's legit so much to play around with here. My problem is the author does nothing to drive any of the plot, waiting until the end to get things moving, and wrapping up with lengthy exposition dumps. I'm sure someone will bark at me that Maas was a child when she wrote these (which kudos to baby Maas btw) but she writes the same in her later books as she does in her earlier work so... maybe let's not make excuses just cuz the candy is yummy - it's still making us fat and rotting our teeth. Aside from that, the romance was cute (if not meh), the fighting was cool, and I'm eager to learn more about the magic of this world.

Mostly I'm in it to see what comes of Fleetfoot