Crown of Midnight
core novel 2013 Throne of Glass
Record
| First published | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.36 (1,986,255 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 420 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781619630628 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Crown of Midnight is the second book in Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series. It picks up after Celaena Sardothien has won the king's brutal competition and been named Champion, taking up her new role as the king of Adarlan's personal assassin under the close watch of Captain Chaol Westfall. Forced to carry out the king's death sentences while secretly protecting some of her intended victims, Celaena leads a dangerous double life, hiding her true loyalties from those around her even as she grows closer to Chaol and continues to navigate her complicated history with Prince Dorian. As she is drawn deeper into the kingdom's underground resistance and begins to learn more about the source of the king's seemingly limitless power, Celaena is given an assignment that threatens to expose her secrets and force her to choose where her true loyalties lie.
Where it sits
- Universe: Throne of Glass
- Series: Throne of Glass core; position 2 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sarah J. Maas
Notes
- From the series record (Throne of Glass): Tower of Dawn is an interquel running concurrently with events late in Empire of Storms/before Kingdom of Ash, hence internal chronology 5.5 rather than a plain integer, following a companion-volume convention already used elsewhere in this canon.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Throne of Glass: position 2 of 7: previous Throne of Glass (2012) · next Heir of Fire (2014)
Sources
- sarahjmaas.com -- Reading Guide
- https://sarahjmaas.com/books/crown-of-midnight/
- https://throneofglass.fandom.com/wiki/Crown_of_Midnight
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