This book was so great! I listened to the audio book and I feel I might try and grab the rest of the books in this way because when seeing the prose compared to the narrator's expressions I think I would have missed quite a bit. 
 I can see that a lot of reviews are mixed on Celaena and how she could act quite childish, although she is only 18. You can drag a young person through hell but deep down they are still young and I think that showed in the moments where she was excited for candies and would want to lay in late. I enjoyed those moments and preferred that to just a hard lined assassin whose personality was that and only that. I loved both Dorian and Chaol but unlike ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas I did not find myself passionate about either side. Well..maybe veering a little for Chaol in all honesty. I found that the king was frightening and the book did a great job of building a bigger problem and hinting that this competition was just a drop in the sea of problems in the world of Erilea. I wish that the tests were explored a bit further as I found that the handful of times that we truly saw Celaena's skills as an assassin were few and far between. Another con would definitely be the elements of pettiness. Again I understand Celeana is a young girl but I hope this doesn't continue to the next books. It seemed any woman that was of a similar age and wasn't a friend of Celeana's was an enemy of some kind, whether for the affections of a love interest of for corrupt purposes. I can rationalise it a little by thinking that we are largely in Celeana's head and we are feeling her emotions and they are quite juvenile because of her age...but my gosh I hope that is something that doesn't carry through. Why write a strong female protagonist if she very quickly questions every female's intentions she comes by for a lot longer than the males she may come across. 
 All in all I really enjoyed the audiobook of Throne of Glass and can't wait to explore Erilea further!