"The Assassin’s Blade," from the "Throne of Glass" series is one of the best fantasy fictions I have read in my high school years. Simply by reading it, I can feel myself part of the story, watching the assassin Celaena fight for her freedom. Sarah has created a truly remarkable heroine who does not sacrifice the grit that makes her real in order to do what is right in the end. From her word choices I can feel the atmosphere Sarah created to foil the characteristics of each different individual. I learned that by using detailed descriptive words, a writer can bring the readers along with the characters in the story and make them feel the story is real. For example, I can feel the tension in one of the deadly situations when Celaena was facing a whole team of royal guards and she had to break her way out in order to survive. Moreover, I also learned that not only the mental thoughts of the characters can review their characteristics, the action and environmental descriptions can do no less. I also learned that by using colorful dialogues between characters, the grand setting of the fiction gets to be known gradually. The method makes the fiction more piquant, compared to listing the whole setting in one long epic paragraph. One more thing I learned from Sarah is that one should always leave some suspense in the end of one chapter, so the readers can not wait to turn the page and learn what happened next. Setting The original extensive landscape and different continents are mapped in the front page of the book, thus the readers can understand the conflict on the boundary between countries more clearly. Detailed descriptions are given about each different continent, such as desert areas in the west and the icebound continent in the north. Characters Each character has his or her distinct characteristic, and no repeated disposition. The difference between characters, including the assassins and the royal families, are embodied through