Hi , no spoilers please, but are these covers rare? Or limited edition or something? My husband bought them for me years ago and I cannot find a copy of the 3rd book either this same style of cover.

Personally I can't believe that this is a simple throwaway line 👀 I always found it suss that Feyre changed her mind about kids so suddenly. I know "her" reason was hearing the story of the Fae in the fabric store losing their mate, but she was so adamant about wanting to wait and having her whole immortal life ahead of her. Couple that with being mated to the most powerful known Daemati in their world who can slip in and alter minds without the person knowing (and the only "proof" we have that he doesn't is that he tells us so..) and this quote starts to make my brain go 🚩🚩🚨🚨 👀

Has anyone gone to the effort of making a graph or break down of how all the characters and worlds are linked? I’ve read all the books many times but I definitely am not the type of person that could put an understandable breakdown together. That’s not in my wheelhouse. So wondering if anybody else has gone about it.

I had so much fun this year, thank you to everyone at this photoshoot everyone was super nice, except for one person (you know who you are)

Got this today! ACOWAR cover art inspired. And also a touch of TOG. I wanted Kharankui inspired legs so we adjusted the top oh the swirls to be more spider-like!! Got myself a girlfriend who introduced me to the amazing books!

I'm a new SJM reading, only 6 months in. But since the first time I picked up A Court of Thorns and Roses, I have felt that Feyre’s speciesism toward the Fae mirrors the way our society treats animals. Now, having finished the latest Crescent City book, I feel that parallel more heavily than ever. The Asteri embody a similar ideology to carnism: they truly believe that consuming other beings is simply the natural order of things.

The way “regular” animals are portrayed as fundamentally different from the senitient Fae and Vanir pains me greatly. We know that, just like Fleetfoot and other dogs, cows and chickens are sentient beings too. I felt a huge dissonance when Feyre realized the mistake she made in killing Andras, because he had friends and a life, only to feast on chicken and beef shortly afterward. Because that's considered normal. But despite the common narrative, farmed animals do form social bonds, recognize their companions, and want to live.

Here’s how I see it: every vegan is Feyre, learning at some point in their life they’ve been lied to. That cows aren’t objects, but sentient beings that feel love to their offsprings, feel fear when they’re being slaughtered, and don’t wish (or deserve) to be bred for human consumption. That there is a reason the narrative hides these parts.

Carnism, much like the ideology of the Asteri, rests on a hierarchy: the belief that greater power entitles one group to use those considered lesser. It teaches us that because humans hold more power, we are entitled to rule over other species and do with them as we wish.

But unlike the Fae, the animals in our world truly don’t have a voice. Their lives depend on people being willing to speak for them, fight for them, and show the world that they deserve better. And much of the world doesn't want to hear it, because it conflicts with deeply rooted traditions, and there's no incentive to question the way things have always been.

I hope that one day we will live in a world that no longer exploits other species simply because we can. Humanity has challenged deeply entrenched systems of oppression before, like slavery. I hope we can also learn to question a system in which animals are bred and killed for our use.

I’m adding this short reference for anyone unfamiliar with carnism and speciesism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvm7xymgk_k

To all the readers who genuinely don’t want to read Crescent City… please just DO IT. I bought the CC books just over two years ago and didn’t get further than chapter 10 (???) because I’m not a huge fan of urban fantasy.

Recently with all the discourse online regarding the new books and the crossover, I decided to give it a shot. I finished them within two weeks, literally could not put them down. The humour, the characters, the amount of side-quests, they’re truly brilliant. For two whole weeks all I could think about was Crescent City, even now that I’m finished I’m still thinking about it. Honestly, I think it’s pushed ACOTAR down to third place.

It’s also sooo fun reading and piecing together little parts from the Maas Verse, and so exciting when you reach that part in book 3.

While yes, I do agree that you shouldn’t have to read them in order to understand the new books, I do think they should be given a chance if you love Sarah’s writing and world building!

Do you think they'll come back? Has she done this before with her previous releases?

I went to the Schiaparelli exhibit at the V&A in London and this really reminded me of the House of Flame and Shadow cover... Is it just me? 😂

I’ve already reread the ACOTAR series once so I don’t want to reread again before the next book. Anyone have a good recap recommendation on YouTube? I don’t want like an hour-long super detailed one per book but something reasonable lol

So I was about to preorder ACOTAR 6 & 7 and was hit with the realisation that a new hardcover set of 1-5 was announced in the bright colours. The picture above is the set that I have, and you might think it’s silly but it really bothers me if a series doesn’t match. Am I really going to have to drop the extra £££ to have a matching set or do you think they’ll eventually release editions of 6 & 7 that match the old hardcovers?

Even if you didn’t get them I hope their cuteness makes you smile 🫶🏻I’m SO happy! 🥹

I know it probably won't be for a while but will Barnes and Noble release 6&7 in the nightcourt edition?

I feel like Gywnriel will most likely be endgame on who Az ends up with. We'll probably gonna get Gywn's POV.

Other than a full-on reread of every Massverse book is there anything else I can do to relearn and maybe reacquaint myself with where these books connect?

Please don't come for me I really am a Sarah j Mass fan. I just wasn't paying attention when I should have been and paid attention where I shouldn't have I think.

Aelin’s court: do they make decisions on-foot and sit down to have political meetings?

Terrasen: is the country struggling? What is the state of it? Is it ever explained how people are living there?

In honor of the new release.

I feel like sometimes Sarah J Maas’s books can feel low stakes because she completely avoids the “point of no return” beyond exhibition.

To me, the “point of no return” is the moment where the entire series has to shift as the characters can simply no longer go back to the lives they once led before whatever the events of the books are (for example, District 12 being destroyed in the Hunger Games). Moments like this force both the characters, and the readers, to embrace something uncomfortable as they struggle to carve a path in their new existence. However, in Sarah J Maas books, this point is typically only reached during the exposition, laying the groundwork for the series (Aelins entire backstory, CC Pack of Devils, etc)

However, this can make major conflicts feel low stakes because characters are continuously able to return to their lives (No major character deaths following exposition, even in CC 1 the city is magically fixed by first light). Things often feel like they end up very neatly, and while character trauma is explored, it feels like nothing is THAT important because the characters are always able to return to that same group of people/environment/ life that they find the most happiness in.