The Assassin's Blade
The Throne of Glass Novellas
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Elizabeth Evans
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Sarah J. Maas
About this listen
Bloomsbury presents The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas, read by Elizabeth Evans.
The twist of a knife. The birth of a legend.
Step into the world of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas with this collection of prequel novellas.
Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom’s most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin’s Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. But when Arobynn dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, Celaena finds herself acting independently of his wishes and questioning her own allegiance.
If she hopes to escape Arobynn’s clutches, Celaena will have to put her faith in her wits and her blade . . . knowing that if she fails, she’ll lose not just a chance at freedom but her life.
A prequel to the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass, this collection of five novellas explores the history of this cunning assassin and her enthralling—and deadly—world.
Included in this volume:
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
The Assassin and the Healer
The Assassin and the Desert
The Assassin and the Underworld
The Assassin and the Empire
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- 2024-01-24
read third and loved it!
I read it third as SJM suggests and it was perfect. gave more emotion and depth to the stories and characters, and had so many little easter eggs hidden throughout. performance as always was wonderful. I was worried it'd feel like a step back/break in the story reading it third but it only enhanced the rest of it and made rhings better as I already knew enough to be invested in the characters.
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- PlanetaryColonist
- 2024-08-07
Excellent narration
A colorful and engaging start to a series, though the main character is painfully gullible for a kingdom's top assassin.
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- Katrina
- 2024-11-12
I will not be afraid
I don’t know how people can wait to read this. I read it first before the entire series. This is my second reread and I could not imagine not having this information going into the series. This story start to finish is incredible.
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- Samantha Phillips
- 2025-01-03
The love, loyalty, and heartbreak through the whole book
Loved the book. It was a bit slow to get into but once I was invested I couldn’t put the book down.
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- Debrah Courville
- 2022-08-21
Beginning of a great series
If you haven't read the other book may have spoilers in my review....
Wonderful, but hard read of beginnings of Celaena Sardothien . Before she took back her real name. The story of her falling in love with Sam and how she was betrayed by the King of Assassin's. Listened to it in One day. I couldn't stop it was really good.
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- Andrew Morgan
- 2023-10-24
so you have PTSD
learn about the trauma that made Celaena into the broken and lethal force of the gods she is. Flesh out the world we have grown to love before getting to the back half of our original adventure. Pirate's, Assassins, Giant horse sized spiders, witches, and so much trauma await
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- Skylar
- 2024-08-20
The missing beginning to an already very interesting character finally brought to life :)
The missing beginning to an already very interesting character finally brought to life :) you can see why her character is so broken and off putting going into the first book now.
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- Indigo Daly
- 2023-05-17
Was more hyped up
I’m glad I read it after the third book for sure but it was definitely hyped up more than it deserved. I enjoyed it but nothing was riveting and I ended up guessing the plot fairly easily
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- Tiara
- 2024-03-30
Loved it
Seven books of holy greatness! This series was seriously well written and captivating. Also I liked how they had the same narrator for the whole series.
Thumbs up 👍🏼
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- sarah
- 2023-04-07
Winderful
Amazing fantasy series, loved finding out why the first book starts where it does.
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