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I AM!) and to open the series, I truly could not have asked for a better guest.Rylan Clark is a familiar presence on TV and radio and one of the BBC's hosts for Eurovision 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even if she wasn’t actually killing her marks from the King.Ĭrown of Midnight may have taken several steps back in world-building, but it leaped forward in character development. ![]() Celaena was more active in her decision-making and more realized as a so-called assassin. When reading Crown of Midnight, I remember thinking how much stronger of a character Celaena was compared to the first book Throne of Glass. But I figured I would put my thoughts into a blog post and really analyze the reading experience of both books to determine which was stronger. The general consensus seems to be that Heir of Fire is the stronger book, and that it’s when the series really begins to take off. 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