This book has so many reviews so I won't go into that this time.

I just want to put my opinion regarding the reading order of the series and whether you should read it or just skip it.

I've seen that some people are commenting that they skipped reading this book and that it is not important but I would disagree.

This book is important for the world-building and the understanding of Celaena and her young years and her finding herself. One of the most important sentences comes from this book and reading it gives so much depth to the same sentence in the Heir of fire.. It is not important that you know the ending already, it gives so much more into the world-building and a base for the further character arc of Celaena.

So I would highly recommend not skipping this one and reading it before the Heir of fire.