Ten years, so I could come here to sing the songs of magic that you tried to wipe out. You won’t be shocked to hear how mortified I was when Rena recited the list of the dead and stated, “I have worked for ten years to become famous enough to gain an invitation to this castle. I couldn’t of agreed more towards believing that music and art are a cure for both the soul and the mind. It is as if I am the only person here on earth and there is this notion that I may or may not of created or am magical. I’m currently studying a Bachelor in Fine Arts and sometimes it is daunting thinking towards what my future will be like knowing how many cuts and disposable accusations are being made to the funding of the arts. This line rang true to me as I am one who feels completely and whole-heartedly warped when either singing or dancing. The line, “Perhaps there was an unstoppable magic inherent in music and art” really captured my heart. In particular, I was drawn towards her courage towards fighting for what she believes in through song. It saddened me to hear that the King murdered the singer, Rena Goldsmith, a woman who once performed to an audience who froze for two hours “as if everyone had stopped breathing.” Maas was truly able to highlight the essence of who Rena was by describing her red-gold hair and “her voice soft, ethereal, the sound of a lullaby half-remembered.” I think in these few moments of discovering who she was enabled me to develop this strong connection towards her despite how short our meeting was. This book had a lot of twists and turns which shocked me to the point where I was left some what disappointed. Maybe she should teach The Boy Who Cried Wolf a trick or two. Celaena has not just perfected her artistry with weapons yet has mastered the skill of H1 level lying.
I LOVE the way Maas startled us to believe that Celaena obeyed the King’s orders of murdering the innocent to finding out the truth that Celaena had been doing the complete opposite of that order.
Maas absorbed us in such detailed imagery from the beginning, “The shutters swinging in the storm winds were the only sign of her entry” making us feel sympathetic towards a husband who holds his wife close in his arms as they lay soundlessly asleep before Celaena enters the bedroom.
So… I had only read the first two chapters of this book and was already saying, “THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!” The way that Maas labelled Celaena as “The King’s Champion” rather then by her own name at the beginning enabled a different perspective of the story to unfold.
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