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Sarah

Sardin@bookrastinating.com

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Sarah J. Maas: House of Flame and Shadow (Hardcover, 2024, Bloomsbury Publishing)

The stunning third book in the sexy, action-packed Crescent City series, following the global bestsellers …

Best of the three

A good ending for the series. Possibly the best Maas book I've read so far. Some slower parts, but over all a good tempo.

Sarah J. Maas: House of Earth and Blood (Paperback, 2021, Bloomsbury Publishing)

Bound by blood. Tempted by desire. Unleashed by destiny.

Bryce Quinlan had the perfect …

Much of the same

I’ve recently read the “a court of thorns and roses”-series and, despite the different setting and story; a lot of things seem just the same in this book. The characters don’t feel new; they talk the same, act the same and reacts the same. Especially the main characters and that’s a bit boring. I think I would have liked the book a lot better if this had been my first Maas book. Another thing that kept bugging me was how this “different” world has so much of our modern world in it (mostly from USA), like holidays, customs, trends, technology, only with different names. It gets ridiculous many times. Especially when Maas has used ALL fairy tale creatures. How can so much in this world be exactly the same as ours?! There’s fae, angels, mermaids (mer), vampires (vampyrs), witches, demons, shifters (of all kinds, not only werewolves), fauns, sprites, and …