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Lexie Yeah I know, but how do you know she's not just trying to mislead us and then surprise us. I just want to SEE Sam again somehow.


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Oh gosh Sam dying in the TV show will leave me in pieces. In. Pieces.


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Natalia (ravenandthehawk) | 387 comments Oh. No. O_O T_T


Lexie I wonder how the show will go... Will it just start straight on Throne of Glass and maybe have flashbacks or something or will it do Assassin's Blade first?


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Xoxoasia | 97 comments What would be cool is if they had 1 season for each book, starting with Assassin's Blade.


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I was just thinking that Sam might have actually had a chance of coming back to life until Sarah put Celaena and Rowan together. But I totally ship them now, I love them together.


Ray (warrior of randomness) XP | 106 comments erawan will bring Sam back to mess with aelin?


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Well, now there's no reason to bring Sam back because Celeana's with Rowan.


Ray (warrior of randomness) XP | 106 comments true but he was her best friend


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I feel like Aedion has taken his place in a way.


Lexie Poor Sam. I miss him so much!


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I read somewhere that we find out more about Sam's death in QoS. I haven't gotten that far yet, but I just wanted to know if that's true? And if so, what do we find out? // I really hope Sam will somehow come back. I feel like Celaena truly loved him, and no one else will really compare to him :/


Lexie But don't we find out everything in The Assassin's Blade?


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I'm not sure?? Someone said that we find out more in QoS, so I was curious if it was true or not. I haven't read QoS so I don't know haha


Lexie Oh wait, I have read QoS. No I don't think we really find out more about Sam's death, unless you haven't actually read The Assassin's Blade yet.


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Rachel | 128 comments The only other thing you learn about Sam's death in QoS is where he is buried & there's a letter from Wesley. There is some loose ends tied up where Sam is concerned.


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Thank you :)


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Xoxoasia | 97 comments It would be amazing if Sam came back in the next books.


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Aimee (readingsumpton) I doubt we'll see Sam again, not after reading the novellas. :(


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Xoxoasia | 97 comments @Aimee I know but one can always hope :)


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Aimee (readingsumpton) Haha very true! :)


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Aimee (readingsumpton) Haha very true! :)


Brooklyn Tayla (bookishbrooklyn) | 44 comments I'm clinging hopelessly and desperately onto the thread that Sam is still alive. I'm re reading TAB with my friend and we're both utterly in love and obsessed with him. I know Queen SJM confirmed that he's dead but please, please let that be to avoid spoilers. I can't get over him. :'( he's my favourite of Celeana's love interests. Because I've not read passed TOG yet and while I love Dorian and Chaol; there's only one Sam. <3


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Diane (mystifiedswift) I totally agree with you Brooklyn! Maybe there will be some weird magic thing that'll bring him back to life. In other books I've read, these sorta things sometimes happened. THERE'S STILL HOPE


Marie | 4 comments Me : #foreveralone lol
Because I never cared for Sam and 5 books later, I still don't and hope he'll stay dead...

I know, I know, I'm an awful person...lol


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Diane (mystifiedswift) It's okay. I hated, well not really "hate" more of disliked, Chaol from the beginning. I got so mad when Celaena ended up with him in CoM. I don't even have a valid reason. So, it's okay for you to hate Sam for no apparent reason


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Marie | 4 comments The thing is, I don't hate Sam lol. I never did. It's just that in my opinion, Sarah's writting when she wrote the novellas was good but not nearly as good as it is now and so, I felt like everything happened too quickly and that Selena's feelings for Sam came out a little bit of nowhere and so I never really could ''believe'' in their love. And because everything happened so quickly, I never felt like I really got to know Sam. It's like Sarah told me how I should feel about him instead of showing me if you know what I mean.

But I can understand that most people didn't feel the same way as I did ;) And like you said, it's okay to not like a character. Nothing forced us to after all. We can't help how we feel.


imashamedofmyoldreviews (pleasedontjudgeme_ichanged) I will go down shipping Samlaena. They are my OTP. I just hope he'll come back soon or that he'll come back, period! Maybe if Aelin could get all the 3 Wyrdkeys and open a portal to get him back along with Nehemia, Sorscha and Lyria. That would be DOWNRIGHT EPIC! And while we're at that, I think Sam was Aelin's mate.


Rustom | 5 comments Amy wrote: "Sydney wrote: "While I would like to believe Sam isn't dead, I don't think Arobynn would have any reason to keep him alive. Arobynn didn't care about Sam, he only saw him as a threat that was tryin..."

I may be completely wrong but is there any possibility that Arobynn could have been Sam's father, and like that's why he took him in and trained him as assasin instead of left him on streets.
What's your thoughts????


fabricofbooks | 54 comments TBH it's been a long time since I've read Assassin's Blade and I still don't know who Sam was or what he did before he was recruited by Arobynn. Did he sign up or...? I honestly don't thnik anyone in their right mind would willingly sign up to be an assassin, but maybe the alternative was a much worse idea, sort of like being a consort.


imashamedofmyoldreviews (pleasedontjudgeme_ichanged) Fanficofbooks wrote: "TBH it's been a long time since I've read Assassin's Blade and I still don't know who Sam was or what he did before he was recruited by Arobynn. Did he sign up or...? I honestly don't thnik anyone ..."

Sam Cortland was taken up by Clarisse and he and Celaena loved each other. Sam was tortured and killed by Rourke Farran on Arobynn Hamel's orders.There's lots in between, too. You should read Sam Cortland on Throne of glass Wikia.


Katrina | 3 comments Does Celaena ever tell Sam that she loves him? He says it to her several times but I don't remember a time when she says it back.


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Diane (mystifiedswift) I don't think she told him because of this line in QoS: "I never told you, but I loved you." She said that at Sam's grave.


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Tristen (bo0kenthusiast) Sadness


Katrina | 3 comments Diane wrote: "I don't think she told him because of this line in QoS: "I never told you, but I loved you." She said that at Sam's grave."

That makes me so sad. He died never hearing her say that...


imashamedofmyoldreviews (pleasedontjudgeme_ichanged) Katrina wrote: "Diane wrote: "I don't think she told him because of this line in QoS: "I never told you, but I loved you." She said that at Sam's grave."

That makes me so sad. He died never hearing her say that..."


I think that was Celaena's biggest regret- not having told the person who might have been her mate that she loved him... I really hate to think that we're not gonna see more of him :(


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Melanie | 7 comments Currently re-reading The Assassins Blade and omg I can't help but cry every time Sam is in a chapter. I love his character so much and it just hurts knowing his fate.


Chloe | 58 comments WHEN HE DIED I DIED WITH HIM!!
.・゚゚・(/ω\)・゚゚・.


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Diane (mystifiedswift) Whassup? You guys told me to post my poems on the character discussion boards so here it is:

I love you
I know you love me too
I miss you
I pray the floor won't fall through
But you're gone and I cannot change that
I try to get revenge but even that won't help
Even as they whip me I do not yelp
I attempted to kill your murderer
He threw me away
Into slavery where I must pay
For the crimes long forgotten
My history has damned me
But I no longer care
For I am nothing without you sitting there
But even as they whip me, even though you're gone
I hold my head up
I refuse to be their pawn
I remember the words you had spoken when I had seen you last
"I will not be afraid," I say out loud
And remember my love who has passed


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Solaris (solarisduvaniel) *sniffle* You slay me!

There were a couple lines without a subsequent rhyme. I'm no ace on poetry, but was that intentional? No matter, love it nonetheless

And thank you!! :')


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Diane (mystifiedswift) Yeah, it was intentional.


leema | 14 comments Booknut wrote: "Discuss Celaena's friend, and old love, here!"

When ever i think about Sam it makes me wanna cry
Poor Poor Celana- SPOILER- How could she replace him with Rowan!!?


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Nicola Munoz | 5 comments He died.


leema | 14 comments I know he died


leema | 14 comments But I guess it is a good thing anyway since SPOILER they are mates so they were meant to be. Poor Sam had the same sad fate as the girl Rowan thought was his mate.


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Janett (sweetwaterspice) | 50 comments I absolutely loved Sam! I just loved him!!

I was hyperventilating during that entire scene when he didn't come back home and Celeana was going out of her mind looking for him! I just knew something bad had happened but I didn't want to believe it until I read it through my own tear filled eyeballs. Worst moment. I was devastated!!

No one so far has been able to touch his character as THE ONE who should've been Celeana's love forever. *sniff*


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Alva | 12 comments Sam was my favorite, he's pure hearted xx


Elizabeth Conroy | 10 comments Ok I literally loved Sam. I read ToG first so I knew he died, but yet when I read it the whole book pulled on my heart strings. I didn't know I had so many tears until the day he died. I felt for that moment I was Celaena and I couldn't stop crying. I still hold on so tight to the hope he never died was just locked up by Arobynn Hamel, and escaped to find Celana gone. So he went to the Red Desert or something.


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Esther Jackson (ejjackson) There is so many things about Sam Cortland that made him perfect. I mean with Aelin/Celaena he just made her a lot more human. He was her anchor. I wish that he could be here now just to see how far everyone has gotten I think he would've loved it. Okay I have a little something to tell you... Sam has met Chaol and Dorian before! Yes believe it, when Sam and Celaena were at the dance and Dorian asked her to dance then Sam stupid in. Yep it was him. When I heard about this I freaked out. Anyway saying all of this, I LOVED Sam so much. RIP!


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Katherine  | 23 comments @Skyler what dance, when did this happen?????????


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