I'd been warned about this beforehand - because people have no self-control when it comes to spoilers in this series, it's like GAME OF THRONES (guess how I learned about the Red Wedding?) - but it still totally caught me off-guard and made me angry. So what does Maas decide to do to Nehemia? Kill her off, obviously. Nehemia was the best thing about book one and also the best thing about book two, and she and Celery had way more chemistry than Celery did with either Kale (because he's overrated, like the vegetable kale, and often appears when not wanted) or Durian (should be obvious, but because he stinks.

(It's almost like she isn't good at her job as an assassin or something.) ((Also, girl, what's up with the weird severed head fetish? It's like my girl Celery thinks that they're Pokemon cards and she's gotta trade and collect 'em all.)) At the same time, she's trying to decipher the secrets of the Wyrdmarks, with the help of Nehemia, AKA Queen Bae.

Only sucks for him, because Celery is totes Scarlet Pimperneling him, faking their deaths and mercifully allowing them to escape instead while bringing back the severed heads of scavenged corpses. In this book, Celery is the King's Champion, and the obviously corrupt king is having her kill his dissenters.

Muscle atrophy, like smelly farts, bad hair days, and actually having to work at stuff, is something that just doesn't happen to Celery, Queen of the Mary Sues. It's almost like she hadn't been malnourished and imprisoned for years. In the last book, Celery partook in a Hunger Games-like competition to be the King's Champion for the hit new reality series in Adarlan, 'Keeping Up with the Sardothiens.' Everyone watched, agog, as a tiny, skinny girl inexplicably kicked the butts of men twice her size and strength, including me. ***WARNING: BIG SPOILERS AND SNARK AHEAD***ĬROWN OF MIDNIGHT is book two in the chronicles of Celiac. You know what they say - those in glass castles shouldn't cast stones. The feedback was surprisingly positive (although I did lose a friend or two along the way, and even had some people block me). (Actually I probably did, but then again, how very hypocritical of me.) I read the first book about three years ago, and did not like it, but morbid curiosity inspired me to do a brutally honest reread of THRONES OF GLASS. I realize that in reading these books, I am contributing to the problem, but I never said I wasn't a hypocrite. Every time one of these books comes out, my feed is immediately saturated with them for weeks.

I don't think I've read a book that was so mystifyingly over-hyped since FIFTY SHADES OF GREY.

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