r/Maasverse

From Sarah’s interviews, it sounds like she has been pushed, pulled and hassled in such a way it has put her off working with Bloomsbury. I know that eventually it will all come out - and she will have a new publisher (hopefully) when she finishes her contract. I would love to know if anyone has details? It just feels a bit gaudy with all their promos of her new book, in a sense I feel they don’t deserve her if they haven’t treated her well, but they will definitely milk her for all the profits they can. I know she has unreleased books and series, it would be amazing if she could get them released with another publisher.

okay so I’m listening to HOFAS an I’m at the part where Ithan and the Sigrid had to fight and then he kills her!!!??? LIKE WTF WAS THE POINT OF THAT

WHOLE PLOT LINE THEN ALSO idek Bryce finding out about what rly happened with Thea the whole and being all holier than though LIKE UUGGHHH STFU!!!!! OMG like they were stupid ignorant fae like it doesn’t make them or their power evil like huh?? even if it was couldnt you just use it for good??? ((Not sure how that works)) but still calm down girl…like

also circling back to BRINGING BACK THE HARPY WTF WHY DO U NEED TO BRING THE HARPY BACK!? IM ALL SET WITH A ZOMBIE HARPY

I wish nesta , azerial & Bryce could team up and the inner circle just pop out of a worm hole and save hunt and them and kill the asarti

Oh and rhue the way he’s icing out Lydia is annoying also being holy than though and he won’t even hear her out so who are you to say she’s “unredeemable” funny how none of that matter when she was just a flame in the shadows

Who is he? I'm rereading CC3 and he says he came from the land of the shifters, so Erilea. He crept through when the shifter fae came and he was in hiding there ("caves and barrows [he] was confined to"). Does that mean he's Valg? What else could he be?

Side note: I love that Hypaxia's reaction is basically, 'blah blah blah we didn't come here for a history lesson' 😆 juxtaposed to the reader's "omg so much lore/ Easter eggs give me more info Under-king!"🤯

Update: That was fast! A barrow wight. Thanks, everyone!

I started ACOTAR back in December of 2024 but only listened to the graphic audio of the first book and stopped the series - I didn’t really read much for a while. March of this year, I picked it back up and ended up flying through the series on the graphic audio.

Decided to read TOG next because I had heard great things; I bought the ebooks and audio books and would switch between the two.

Finished off Crescent City last week.

I am having a hard time picking my favorite series. I like ACOTAR because it feels the coziest to me and it was the first one I read - plus I like first person POVs. But I’m re reading the first book now and I feel like there were so many more plot holes/inconsistencies in this series vs the other two. Especially from the first book to the rest.

I think TOG is the most consistent series and most thorough overall world building and well described magic system. It makes the most sense to me and I feel it has less plot holes than the other two. I love all the characters in this one, some got on my nerves at times but they were mostly redeemed for me in the end.

I’m still deciding how I feel about CC, there were parts that really dragged and then parts that were great. The third book was by far the best, and honestly loved the crossover but I’ve always been excited by crossovers - literally since I used to watch Disney Channel and they would do occasional crossovers with their series like Hannah Montana and Suite Life 😂 the only things I feel like aren’t explained well due to the crossover are the differences in how all the fae’s magic works, for example the shifters in CC are never stated to have a weakness to iron but the fae in TOG do - and why would it effect the magic of the shifters but not the magic of the fae from Prythian, since it’s now confirmed they’re in the same universe just different worlds/planets?

I have decided that maybe Sarah is a vibes writer, so I am just going to be a vibes reader for this series and enjoy the ride.

I haven’t read this many books in such a short period of time since I was in high school (I got burned out on reading for fun in college).

I’ve already pre ordered the two next ACOTAR books which will actually be my first physical copies of any of the series (I was in the middle of a move when I restarted reading the series so didn’t want to buy a bunch of physical books to have to then pack up, move around until we found another place).

I love her series and now I’ve read all 3. It’s so hard being a black Sarah j mass fan though idc. Or even a black romantasy fan in general. I hated books 1-2 and book 7 of throne of glass but loved the middle books.

Besides all my other gripes about the series (especially the dumb way she lost her powers before the final battle that’s been holding me in suspense for 7 books) I couldn’t help myself from being pissed off the whole time about Nehemiah. Sarah sucks at killing off main characters, they always come super close and somehow make it due to some bippity boppity last minute. This is something that irks me already but I’m even more irritated that the one time she actually wants to kill off a main, it’s the black character and it’s done brutally. Initially I was so excited to finally see some cool black rep and thought maybe she would be a main in the circle. But no. This isn’t to say that she hasn’t been trying with her other series but she’s still trapped in that: throw in black rep but they either have to die quickly cuz they don’t matter or they’re just plot devices or make them a perfect nothing burger side character with no depth at all. It’s exhausting seeing every white character get to have complex back stories and emotions and always cheat death. Everytime a character was introduced, Manon, elide, Lyssandra, Fenry, Gavriel, lorcan, yrene (idk if she was black or mixed cuz all the fanart portrays something different but she may have been because again, her character was little to annoying and perfect and had save the world while pregnant) but the opportunities kept presenting themselves. And maybe I’m the problem because authors write from their own experiences, I don’t know how much diversity she grew up with but damn where I’m from black people are not rare at all.

Also I want to add, if Nehemiah had to die why couldn’t a representative from her court come join the fight. Every court/faction was in the fight to save the world. A ellywe/africa/wakanda or wherever the fuck she was trying to portray rep couldn’t be there fighting with the small army or whatever. It just feels very thoughtless and DEI when she tries to add black characters. It’s not hard, just write the character the same way you would the others.

Edit: I found more stuff to gripe about. I was irritated that yrene saved the day and not the main character with all the freaking buildup. Then if you read ACOTAR, the whole yrene saving the day while pregnant feels like such a cop out. One character has to be sidelined, weak and unable to fight during pregnancy while another stands up to the most evil dangerous villain while pregnant?