Citation: Maas, S. (2012).
The assassin and the desert: A
throne of glass novella. New York,
NY: Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers. Tr. $0.99. ISBN:
9781599909851. Format: eBook (iPad).
Annotation: In The
Assassin and the Desrt, Celaena heads to the desert to train with The
Silent Assassins. She is glad for the
training until a traitor is discovered.
Book Talk: Celaena is being
punished for her actions at Skull’s Bay.
She must travel the desert to reach the fortress of The Silent
Assassins. When she reaches the
fortress, she must train there for one month and return to King Arobynn with a
letter of approval from the Silent Master.
While Celaena is
training, strange things catch her attention.
Soon, she will discover that there is a traitor among them.
As she swallowed
the large mouthful of wine, she had two thoughts. First was that [her] eyes were now filled
with unmasked sorrow. And the
second-which explained the first-was that the wine tasted strange. But Celaena didn’t have time to consider what
poison it was before she heard her own goblet clatter to the floor, and the
world spun and went black (p. 169).
Who is the traitor
among them? Celaena must figure it out
before it’s too late.
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The Assassin and the Desert is the second
of four novellas that lead up to the novel, The
Throne of Glass. Check out the other
three novellas and the novel if you loved this book!
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