Just finished reading this and honestly, this is best book i have ever read! I loved all characters is this book, well a few of them I did not like at all, but most of them were alright. Celaena is cool! Despite how vein she can be, she is so awesome and oh, she is such an jaw dropping assassin. I found it hard to pronounce her name at the start and often question if I was pronouncing wrongly, which lead to me changing her name around the letters e and a, each time I was reading it. I finally settled with pronouncing as "Sel-ay-na, if I'm wrong please tell me. This book was so good and was a bit of combination between harry potter, game of thrones, reign and the lord of the rings, which was amazing because i love those fandoms dearly. There is a bit of love triangle in this book and tbh I don't mind. I haven't read a book with a love triangle in a while that gives me so many confusing feels as to which team I'm bating for (view spoiler)[Some people have different opinions but I do ship Chaol and Celaena somewhat more (hide spoiler)] I highly recommend this book series to absolutely anyone thats in for a bit assassin sass. 
 Okay assassin sass probably was not right phrase to roll with but it'll do. 
 (view spoiler)[Okay, so lets discuss. I SHIP chaolaena more than Celorian. I don't know why, maybe because at the start, I thought Dorian was a bit of a pig. Then there was Chaol who she joked with and you could see them really warming up to each other. Then Dorian and Celaena started to..spark some chemistry between each other and yes I do ship Dorian and Celaena together. There were long periods of times where I would go for Celorian and then something interesting would happen between Chaolaena...like at the ball...when she was telling him he's handsome and he was kind like "You think so?". They were clasping hands and...and oh, dorian just swoops in and finally asks Celaena to dance. I WAS NOT MENTALLY PREPARED FOR THAT! I had huge bipolar moment, where my heart swelled and then cracked in a matter of seconds. It felt kind of like something like this 'the ship sailed and not even a meter from the dock, it was pulled back to the dock by an unbearably, forced current'. Mehhhhhhhhh. (hide spoiler)] 
 (view spoiler)[Celaena breaks it off with Dorian at the end. I was sad. Especially when 'His eyes darkened "Are you saying you don't want to be with me?' it might not of gone like that, but pretty close.Kind of broke my heart. Well, at least then that gives time for the Captain of the Guard to barge in and woo Celaena. Hehe. (hide spoiler)] 
 (view spoiler)[Lets talk about how gruesome this book was. Like the whole eating body parts and ripping open...so much more. Made me wanna cry and be like 'STOP! JUST STOP!". The final dual between Cain and Celaena went for so long and I just wanted to reach in and help her (hide spoiler)] 
 (view spoiler)[Did anyone expect this book to have the spooky effect? I was on a bus when I read the first dream Celaena had in the tomb with the queen. Gave me chills. Made me want to keep reading even more. Was like sh*t just went down! (hide spoiler)] 
 (view spoiler)[I think that Celaena will end up with Dorian and become a queen. Just like Elena had said to Celeana, that it would be so much better if Celaena were to become a queen. I think in those 4 years of being the kings assassin, she will realise that.> 
 (view spoiler)[That part where Chaol follows her into the bathroom, without realising it and Celaena said something like "are you joining me?". Im sorry Celaena but you really embarrassed Chaol. Poor Chaol. It made me laugh though. (hide spoiler)] One of my favourites parts. (hide spoiler)]