I saw a lot of bad reviews on this book before I read it, but I was curious and interested so I read it anyway.

The ones who gave the bad reviews were correct on some things like how Celaena was too girly for a universally-known assassin and she cared too much about her looks. She also didn't have the whole "deadly assassin" vibe most of the time, so that kind of threw me off.
The other things I didn't enjoy was how the love triangle seemed to take up a lot of the book, and it was barely even a love triangle, how much it was dragged on in the middle with nothing really happening, and the some of the fighting scenes were kind of bland.

Other than those things, I kind of loved the book. I like the plot, because a famous female assassin just sounds so cool. I also really liked the whole "finger's tip from the wall" scene for some reason.
There are other things I liked, but I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't read it.

I would recommend this book to anyone who's into Game of Thrones or anything similar to that, as it is a fairly great book.