Sarah J. Maas is a #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author known for her epic fantasy novels and their devoted global readership. She began writing what would become the Throne of Glass series as a teenager, posting early chapters online before the series was acquired by Bloomsbury. Her three interconnected fantasy universes — Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City — have sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of langua...
The Assassin's Blade
The Assassin's Blade
Synopsis
A collection of five novellas set before the events of Throne of Glass, following Celaena Sardothien — Adarlan's most notorious young assassin — across the jobs, travels, and losses that define who she is when the main series begins. In The Assassin and the Pirate Lord, she and fellow assassin Sam Cortland discover that a mission to Skull's Bay is a cover for slave trading. In The Assassin and the Healer, she passes through a remote harbour town and crosses paths with a young woman named Yrene Towers, whose future will intersect with the fate of a continent. In The Assassin and the Desert, she trains with the legendary Silent Assassins and confronts the cost of a friendship built on concealment. In The Assassin and the Underworld, back in Rifthold, she and Sam begin to imagine a different life — one outside the guild. And in The Assassin and the Empire, that dream is destroyed in a single night of betrayal that sends Celaena to the salt mines of Endovier. Together, these five stories trace the full arc of how Adarlan's greatest assassin became its most famous prisoner — and why she is the way she is when a prince offers her a chance at freedom.
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Celaena SardothienProtagonist
Across all five novellas, Celaena is portrayed as brilliant, vain, and deeply principled in ways she would never admit; the arc traces her from a ruthless young assassin to someone capable of love — and then to someone who has lost it.
Arobynn AhamarAntagonist
The King of Assassins, Celaena's guardian and captor; his manipulation and eventual betrayal of both Celaena and Sam are the collection's central act of villainy.
RolfeAntagonist
The Pirate Lord of Skull's Bay; the antagonist of the first novella, who reappears in the main series with expanded significance.
Sam CortlandSupporting
Celaena's fellow assassin, rival, and eventual love; his death in the final novella is the emotional anchor of the entire collection and the key to understanding Celaena's state of mind at the start of Throne of Glass.
Ansel of BriarcliffSupporting
A fellow trainee at the Silent Assassins whose friendship with Celaena is complicated by her secret agenda; her reappearance in the main series rewards readers who know her origin.
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The Assassin's BladeAudio CD, Mar
464 pages
Audible Studios on BrillianceISBN: 97814915865705 editions available
