The is the collection of short stories that give the background to what happen before Throne of Glass starts. I really enjoyed these stories. Each story somewhat built on the story that came before it.

I think that the Celeana as a character was a little annoy sometimes with all of her commentary of how she was the best at everything and how she treated Sam even though she was obviously in love with him as long as he had been in love with her.

The things I loved were some of the side characters that I know show back up in later books and getting some back story on them was really interesting. 

I think that this book overall added to the series as a whole and would recommend any one who is reading The Throne of Glass series to read.