Hey guys, its Ashley, and today we're
going to be talking about Crown of
Midnight by Sarah J Maas. This is book
two in the Throne of Glass series.
Everybody pretty much knows what this
series is about, but this was definitely
not my favorite in the series so far. It
probably ranked 3 out of Throne of Glass,
The Assassin's Blade, and now Crown of
Midnight just because the beginning was
very very slow to get into, but the
characters and the story picked up soon afterwards.
Honestly, I want to say it took about
halfway through the book for it to
actually pick up for me, but I mean, I was
buddy-reading this with Keeley and she
seemed to like it earlier than I did,
so I mean it's different for everybody.
There's a lot a lot of action that
happens toward the end of the book that
I'm really excited to get into and I
know this booktalk is long overdue
because I finished this book back in like...
September?
No it wasn't that far away, October i
think, I finished this book. So let's
just go ahead and get into it! So if you
haven't read this book I'm going to ask
you to stop (unless you want to be
spoiled then I mean you can go for it)
I'm going to be getting into a lot of
spoilery stuff so if you haven't read
this book tread with caution because
everything's just gonna be let loose
from this point.
Ok alright let's go!
So we open up with this guy named Lord Nirall and I'm like who the hell is
this and what does he have to do with
the story, but only later do we realize
that Celaena is actually faking the
target's deaths because she's the King's
Champion so she has to go and
assassinate and kill these people that
the King tells her to. And so she's
actually having them run away and then
bringing the King a dead body to kind of
show that she killed them when in fact
she really didn't. I was like hell yeah
Celaena, stick it to the man, you show him
you go girl!
And just like we saw in The Assassin's
Blade and the Pirate Lord story, she's
not giving up her morals just for her
freedom or just because it's easy in the
situation. No, she's standing by
what she believes in, and what she believes
is right and that is one of the things
that I love about Celaena.
I keep saying Celaena, but like should I say Celaena, or
should i say Aelin at this point because
that, that, that, part at the end that we
find out that Celaena Sardothien is
really just an alias because her real
name is Aelin...
whatever the heck her last name is,
I don't even know anymore, I honestly
Galinthius? Galathinius? But should I
say Aelin or should I say Celaena because
I feel like she's gonna go buy Aelin in
the next book, but honestly I have no
idea anymore. You think one thing and the
next thing you know it's just completely
gone and it's just, it's not there anymore,
and you don't even know what to think of
it.
Okay even though, even though, I have to
say I did see that coming! The one
part that I saw coming was
that Celaena was actually Aelin because
they kept mentioning Aelin and how she was
still around and Celaena never really
wanted to dig and deeper into it and so
I always questioned that because i figured
why would she not? She's just so curious,
she will...tread into the secret
hallway in her room, and the hallway the
dungeon in the library with that creepy
thing.
If her curiosity takes over that much
she should be looking into this Aelin
person and she's not and so I
immediately questioned that. I didn't
really think that it was like really a
thing until I got to the end so i didn't
see it coming, but it still took me by
surprise because I hadn't really believed
that it would come. The part where Celaena
goes back down into the cave of Elena or
Elena's tomb with the King and that
place and all of a sudden the door
knocker Mort starts talking to her, I was
really glad for that because it gave
some comedic relief in this situation
but i was also kind of like getting a
little agitated with Celaena because I'm
like really a door knocker's talking to you
and you're still not really going to
fully understand or believe that magic
still exists?
It was just kind of like a really big
awakening for Celaena to say "holy crap
this is happening, what the heck is
going on?" So I really really liked that. So
for those of you who have seen my throne
of glass booktalk everybody knows that I
am a total Chaol and Celaena shipper or I
ship them together or I need them
together, Chaol and Celaena, and throughout
this entire book in the beginning I
was dying DYING for that to happen and
that moment when Chaol goes with her to
visit Archer who is the new target on
the Kings list that she's supposed to be
killing and he's coming out of that shop
and he calls her Laena, and Chaol gets
really jealous,
and you can tell! Oh my god, that part
just completely like uplifted my soul
and I just I knew that something had to
happen. I have like a list of
things that Chaol and Celaena did that just
made my heart so happy and I'm just
gonna read them off my phone
okay?
At that point when Chaol expresses that
he cares about Celaena to Celaena, my heart!
When Celaena is stupid and manages to get
slashed with Gloriella and comes running to
the castle and who is there to get to
her aid? Chaol! My heart. When Rena being
with the harp and Celaena starts crying
and she holds Chaol's hand. My heart!
When Chaol and Celaena are dancing outside of the
castle during that ball, my heart! My
heart you guys, my heart! But since I
keep talking about Chaol I guess i need to
mention Dorian at some point. Which I
mean it would be completely fine with me
to just completely leave him out but
honestly Dorian started growing on me in
this book. In the first book I didn't
like him at all i don't know what it was
but I just really didn't like him. At
least i don't remember what it was, I
guess in this book he really started to
grow on me and I don't know if that was
because we found out he had magic and
that he was going through kind of the
same thing that Celaena was or if it was
like something that changed in his
character but I just really really liked
him in this book and I don't know why.
Basically throughout the first half of
the book every Dorian point of view was
just him wallowing about why he didn't
have Celaena anymore.
And why didn't Celaena love him anymore?
Why was Celaena always looking at Chaol?
Why did Celaena not want to be with him
anymore?
Every single point of view was just him
complaining or him wallowing or him
complaining some more until the point
when we saw that Dorian was trying to
persuade Roland and the king and the
king's men in the room that they
didn't need to...
what was it i think it was like add more
slaves or or crack down on that one
slave labor camp at that point, and when
he discovered that he had magic onwards
I really really liked him. And it's just
it's weird but I did.
Ok so we all know that the king is like
a really really really big asshole but
the point when he kills Rena for singing
about the fairies and like what the king
did to them and everything like that at
that point I just wanted to rip his
heart out because that was awful and
when she was about to die she was just
listening off people that he had killed
and who she loved and everybody like that
and it just broke my heart. There's
a good side of the story:
Chaol and Celaena, and then there's the bad
part of the story with with the politics
and the king and the the dark magic and
the awful stuff that I don't
want to see, I don't want to see any of
it, I don't, I just want to be happy when
I read this book and I can't. So Nehemia
in this book was kind of like like I
didn't enjoy the parts that she was in
unless they pertained like to the story.
Like when it was about politics and the slave
labor camp i really didn't enjoy it but
when it was any part that Nehemia was
referencing Dorian or was talking to
Dorian for some reason I really really
enjoyed it and it wasn't that I wanted
Nehemia and Dorian to get together or
something that definitely wasn't it, I
think it was just that I like Dorian so
I liked whenever he was spoken about. The
point in the ballroom when Nehemia tells
Dorian that she would help him find his
power I'm like what the heck is that
supposed to mean? And then when Nehemia is
talking to Elena, or at least we just
assume it's Elena, because we couldn't
really like tell. Sarah J Maas used the
words "the princess" and "the Queen,"
and so I just assumed that meant Nehemia
and Elena. They were talking about Dorian
and Celaena and they were like "one of
them has to break first" and I was so
confused I'm like "WHAT."
Then we find out that Nehemia was like
leading this group of rebels so that
they could take down the king and bring
Aelin Galathinius or
whatever her last name is back to the
throne. Archer was a part of it and then
all this shit goes down and all the
sudden Celaena's like rushing back to the
castle and Nehemia is just dead like, wow I
didn't even like Nehemia that much but i was
still so sad. I was just crying and I just I....
And then! And then we find out that
guy from the first book that nobody
really cared about much less
liked (Was his name Grave?) or I don't even remember
but he was the one who killed Nehemia
like where did he come from?
Why him of all people I didn't
understand that like why couldn't it
have been somebody in the castle or
somebody close to the king? So making this booktalk
probably a month and a half after i read
this book probably isn't helping my
confusion, but I'm still confused
thinking about it. You have that scene
after Celaena discovers that Nehemia is dead
and she tries to attack and to kill Chaol
and Celaena just goes off the deep end,
and they put her in the dungeon and then
Chaol is kind of wallowing himself
because "Oh I messed up and oh, Celaena
will never trust me again" and at this
point I feel like Dorian is like the
only sane person in this entire book.
Honestly, so you know, I give a round of
applause to Dorian for just completely
changing my perspective of him
one hundred and eighty degrees like just you go.
Oh and then in that same scene
Dorian stop Celaena's hand from stabbing
Chaol with his magic. Dorian is exposing
himself and Celaena is going off the deep
end and Chaol is wallowing in his sorrows, and just
everything is just going to hell. The
scene when Celaena and Dorian, well Celaena
first Celaena goes down into the dungeon
tomb in the library and she has to use
the Wyrdmarks to get through the doors
because they're locked shut and
that creepy like feathered creepy
thing I don't even remember if it was
feathered I don't even remember what it
was it was. Like the king had made
a Wyrdkey or something it was like the
clock tower, it had something to do with
it, but that creepy thing, and then all
of a sudden Dorian comes rushing down and
then they have to try to stop it and
Dorian uses his magic and Celaena finds
out about it.
That scene was like one of the ones that
completely brought the book up like it
completely brought the second half of
the book like sky rocketing upwards. I
needed to know what happened and I
needed to know what was gonna happen now!
So at the end SO many things happened i
don't even remember. Archer ended up
being bad and he had the Wyrdmark book
and he was trying to open a portal to do
something but instead he let something
in and then Chaol and Celaena were
all fighting it.
Fleetfoot ended up getting dragged into
the portal or something so Chaol went after
them and Celaena
went after them I think, and then we
find out that Celaena is Fae and so her
form changes and she gets fangs
and everything and she's really really
cool and then they come back and she
keeps like her human form it's just a
lot to take in and hand a lot happens, and
I just..this is what i wrote
down I wrote: "So Archer was bad and
Celaena is Fae and Chaol is going back
to Annielle because he made a deal to
send Celaena to Wendlyn and meanwhile Dorian
is going to stay at the castle and do
print stuff." So basically everybody is
splitting up at this point and I'm
really kind of scared to see where the
next book will go because I've gotten so
used to this cast of characters and now
we're going to be introduced to so many
other people in Wendlyn and all the Fae
and I'm just like, I'm scared man, i'm
scared, but excited at the same time
because i want to see where the story
goes.
It's just it's just a lot to take in, and
then the last thing that I actually
wrote in my notes was: "Oh so the King has
an army of Wyverns. That's not scary.
That's great. Yay." Like I said I'm scared
for the next book, I'm also excited, but
I'm mostly scared. So I know this book-
talk was just a lot about me mentioning
different scenes and my feelings but
that's basically what my book talks are
you guys so i really hope you enjoyed
this one even though...
oh, there's a fedex guy, oh my god is he
bringing me a package? So I really hope
you guys enjoyed listening to all my
feelings about Crown of Midnight and i
really can't wait to jump into Heir of Fire.
I'll definitely get into it either in
January or in February, one of
those two months. I will! So please
if you guys have read this book let me
know your thoughts on Crown of Midnight
and what is your favorite book in the
series so I know which one to look
forward to the most!
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