Ahh the feels. 
 So there was a love triangle...I might be weird for saying this but love triangles are exciting. I'm always emotionally killing myself throughout the book, deciding which person should get with who and this book was no different. 
 That ending though. Ugh nooo! 
 Anyway- I loved Celaena! Some people say she's up herself but I didn't really see that, and in any moment where she was getting excited over a ball gown, I was getting excited with her, even though I don't even like dresses. She's a girl people. She's allowed to get excited over a dress! Being an assassin most of your life will probably make you yearn for the hot baths, pretty dresses and lavish lifestyles, you can't be dirty and strong forever. 
 I loved this book. It was something different for me. 
 An assassin gets a chance at freedom, but to get that chance she has to compete against a group of thieves, assassins and dangerous criminals. With a variety of different tests, the group will be filed down to four. 
 Celaena is prepared for the tests but not everything's fair when competing against an unknown group of people, fighting for the same prize. Soon people (view spoiler)[ start turning up dead (hide spoiler)], and Celaena is determined to find out why. 
 Strange things are happening everywhere in the castle and with training, tests, the mysterious accidents and two guys she can't fully understand, life becomes a game of survival. And only one person will come out at the end.