Throne Of Glass Colouring Book Review

by Unknown - Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Throne Of Glass Colouring Book | sprinkledpages

Hey! Today I’m coming to you with a fun post about the Throne Of Glass colouring book! If you don’t know anything about the series, allow me to get you up to speed! The Throne Of Glass series written by Sarah J Maas is a six-part fantasy series about an assassin named Celaena. The first five books are out (I have done spoiler free book reviews for them, which you can check out as I have linked them below) and the sixth one is due to be published next year! The colouring book was recently released and I am going to be talking more about it in detail below!

Related: Throne Of Glass, Crown Of Midnight, Heir Of Fire, Queen Of Shadows and Empire Of Storms book reviews.

About the book.

Book: Throne Of Glass Colouring Book
Author: Sarah J Maas

Illustrators: Yvonne Gilbert, John Howe, Craig Phillips
Pages: 96
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published on: 6 September 2016
Australian RRP: $19.99
Rating: ★★★★★
Synopsis: For the first time, fans of Sarah J. Maas's sweeping New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass saga can experience the vivid imagery of her expansive world. Celaena battling the ridderak in the catacombs, Chaol in the gardens of the glass castle, Manon riding her wyvern through the Crossing, and many other favorite moments, characters, and objects come to life as readers explore the vibrantly detailed realm of Throne of Glass. Stunning original black-and-white drawings will bring fans deeper into the series than ever before-making this a must-have companion to Sarah J. Maas's beloved books. (source)
Genre: Colouring book
Recommended for: Anyone who likes to colour!

This book was sent to me from Bloomsbury (thank you to them for that) in exchange for an honest review. Everything stated here is my opinion.

My thoughts.

So if you’ve read my book reviews before, you’ll know I have a very structured way of presenting my information and review with sub-headings but since this isn’t a conventional book, I will just have to mish-mash it together, but I shall try my best to have a general flow to the review along with small sub-headings!

So what’s inside it?

Lots and lots of colouring pages! Forty-six to be exact! They are black and white drawings (meant to be coloured in) that display scenes from the five books that have been released along with the prequel, The Assassin’s Blade.

On one side there is a drawing to be coloured in and on the other side there is a small extract from the text at the time the scene was happening to give it more context. You do not have to have read the books to be able to use the colouring book although if you haven’t yet read the books but are planning to, best is you read the books first and then use the colouring book because it does have slight spoilers (however, nothing major so you can if you aren’t too fussy).

Tell me about the drawings!

Well…I’m glad you asked! As I said before, the drawings are scenes from the books ranging from Celaena in the catacombs to Chaol in the gardens of the glass castle and Manon riding her wyvern alongside her Thirteen. Some of my favourite scenes from the books are in the colouring book!

The drawings themselves are absolutely gorgeous and so detailed! As a very unartsy person, I am in complete awe of the illustrators who were able to read the text and draw out what they imagined the scenes to be.

Funnily enough, I found some scenes to be quite similar to the way I had imagined them and some to be very different. I found it changed quite a lot of images in my head about some of the characters.

Is there lots of colouring to be done?

SO. MUCH! I think even if I spend hours and hours colouring, I’ll only be able to get 3-4 pages done because the illustrations are so detailed and intricate. However, I mean this in the best possible way because it means I am highly unlikely to ever feel bored again!

So do you think I should buy it?

YUP! I’m not just saying this because Bloomsbury told me to or anything! In fact, they didn’t even say I have to talk about any of these things! But if I hadn’t been sent this, I would have definitely gone out and bought it! Why you may ask?

Because it’s flipping gorgeous, that’s why! More than being a colouring book designed for entertainment, I found that the story had just been bought to life for me! Seeing the characters, the scenes and the world fill up my pages was absolutely amazing and when I read Empire Of Storms, I could really vividly imagine the characters and their features and their world!

If you’ve read and loved the Throne Of Glass series, you’ll adore this! I know I did! And if you haven’t read the Throne Of Glass series (umm firstly read it because it’s awesome!) you’ll enjoy using it anyway!

Do you like colouring books?

Let me know in the comments below!