Throne of Glass
An eighteen-year-old assassin is pulled out of a salt mine to compete for the post of King's Champion. The first book is a competition novel with a love triangle; the series it turns into over eight books is something considerably larger. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 3 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. Readers who want a completed eight-book saga to disappear into.
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How it rates
- Author
- Sarah J. Maas
- Series
- Throne of Glass, book 1 of 8 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 3/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- The glass castle of Rifthold, in a kingdom that has outlawed magic
- Audience
- Young adult
- Pages
- 432
On the spice rating Kissing in the first book. The series becomes explicit from around the fourth. How the scale works.
Content warnings slavery, violence, torture, death.
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