Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #0.1–0.5, 1–7)

by Sarah J. Maas

While Aelin threw herself at the rungs lining the catapult’s wheeled base, and began pushing. Turning it. Away from Orynth, from the castle. Precisely as Aelin had told him Sam Cortland had done in Skull’s Bay, the catapult’s mechanisms allowed her to rotate its base. Rowan wondered if the young assassin was smiling now—smiling to see her heaving the catapult into position. All the way to the siege tower at its left. On the second tower, a red-haired figure had fought her way onto the upper level. And was turning the catapult toward the third and final tower. Ansel of Briarcliff. A flash of Ansel’s sword, and the catapult snapped, hurling the boulder it contained. Just as Aelin brought down Goldryn upon the catapult before her. Twin boulders soared. And slammed into the siege towers beside them. Iron groaned; wood shattered. And the two towers began to topple. Where Ansel of Briarcliff had gone to escape the destruction, even Rowan could not follow. Not as Aelin remained atop the first siege tower, and leaped upon the now-outstretched arm of the catapult, jutting over the battlefield below. Not as she shouted to Lysandra, who shifted again, a wyvern rising up from a ghost leopard’s leap. Grabbing the catapult’s outstretched arm in one taloned foot while plucking up Aelin in another. With a mighty flap, Lysandra ripped the catapult from its bolts atop the tower. And twisting, she swung it into the final siege tower. Sending it crashing to the ground. Right onto a horde of M...