Crown of Midnight

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh. My. God.
Oh my god...
OH MY GOD!

I just finished reading it and the ending, the ending! Wow... Well, i figured it out faster than Chaol, and it was a bit cliché, but still :)

This whole book was so good! (I finished it in just a few days^^) Much better than Throne of Glass. The thing with the first book was that you never understood how she'd ever been able to be the most feared assassin. Now she really shows her abilities. Still, I understand why her abilities didn't show in the first book. She was just released from the salt mines in Endovier and spending a year there couldn't be good for anyone. In the first book there's also so much you don't understand about her, and because of that you don't understand her choices. In this second book we get to know more about her and get a deeper understanding about what she's been trough, and therefore we understand her better. All those seemingly shallow choices in the first book are suddenly not so shallow.

I admire how this book feels like a story between adventures and still not looses its grip on the reader. There isn't one single "quest" (I can't think of a better word at the moment) moving the story forward, but several that are equally important; Celaena trying to adapt to her new life, Nehemia trying to save her homeland, Elena and her quest and of course Chaol and Dorian has adventures of their own.

By the way, I read a review of the first book and there was the person saying that Celaena was just a shallow girl. Everybody's got the right to their own opinion but I wan't to defend her.
Celaena is a strong woman, much like Katniss (The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset) But they are also different. (I haven't read the THG-trilogy, but I will!)
How I've understood Katniss from the movies and from reviews she is a very strong woman that thinks most typically feminine stuff's ridiculous. (I so sorry if this is 100% wrong...) I like her :)
Celaena on the other hand also is a strong woman, but likes what's feminine. She spends money on dresses, cookies and books. She gets her hair and nails done and enjoys it. And why should be that wrong?
A woman dressing and/or behaving like a stereotypical woman isn't the same as a weak woman.
So thank you Sarah J. Maas for giving us a strong woman that still enjoys the womanly things. She's needed when there are a lot of strong women in literature nowadays that despise those things.