Crown of Midnight
by Sarah J. Maas
Not as unexpected as the first but still pretty good. Still hard to put down--expect the unexpected! I'm looking forward to the next.
So what advice can I give, if you're thinking about starting this series? I can say it's way on top of the average YA fantasy. I can say the author is free with the blood and gore and gives her star players injuries that would level an Ajax. They do get knocked out from time to time, but like the Energizer bunny, they keep on kicking back.
The relationships are complicated--love and hate and utter confusion being common states of interaction between any given pair of characters at any given time. The villain is the only mystery--you know who he is, but you don't know why or what he's up to. The good guys don't know what he's up to either, and that one fact, to me, makes a perfect story. You know only as much as the protagonists know....
Oops. The author missed the ball on that last one. There's a little bit of a hint that Celaena is holding something back.
So she's not perfect.
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