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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Tower Falls, The Chain Breaks
Chapter 3: — Arobynn’s Blade, Sam’s Shadow
Chapter 4: — The Warehouse of Chains
Chapter 5: — The Debt Rolfe Owes
Chapter 6: — The Healer in the Fog
Chapter 7: — The Silent Assassins, The Loudest Betrayal
Chapter 8: — Love and the Underworld
Chapter 9: — The Trap at Jayne’s House
Chapter 10: — Endovier
Description
The Assassin’s Blade collects the prequel novellas that chart how Celaena Sardothien became feared—and how she was finally broken.
Raised in the Assassins’ Guild under the watch of Arobynn Hamel, Celaena learns to survive by being the best. But when she’s sent to Skull’s Bay to facilitate a hidden slave deal, her conscience ignites a rebellion: she and fellow assassin Sam Cortland gamble everything to free two hundred captives. Their defiance earns new enemies—and Arobynn’s punishment. Exiled to the Red Desert, Celaena trains among the Silent Assassins, finds friendship and betrayal, and learns discipline that isn’t built on cruelty.
Back in Rifthold, politics, crime, and slavery entwine. Celaena’s choices ripple outward: allies fall, enemies rise, and love becomes the most dangerous vulnerability of all. The journey ends where her legend truly begins—on a prison wagon bound for Endovier.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners starting Throne of Glass who want Celaena’s backstory, relationships, and the emotional context behind Endovier.
- Fans who enjoy fast, mission-driven fantasy with morally complex choices, betrayals, and high personal cost.
- Readers who prefer character-focused origin stories that explain how a “killer heroine” learns mercy—and pays for it.