I love seeing people who don’t normally read fantasy books find something of interest in her books. But there was a waning feeling a sense that perhaps SJM doesn’t speak to me as much as she used to.Īnd I love seeing folks picking up her books for the first time. I thought Crescent City was wildly entertaining filled with characters you’ll love and a story that keeps moving for all 800 pages of that chonker. You know the bookshelf aesthetic every book in a series must match.īut truthfully, it doesn’t matter what the cover looks like because we get a new book in the series, right? And while I was waiting for the newest story, I read Crescent City as well as numerous other fantasy novels over the course of 2020. So I could get a copy of this book, but would probably have to buy the rest of the series in the new covers to match. It didn’t match the covers of the past three books, but matches the new covers set out for them. Over the holidays, the cover for A Court of Silver Flames was revealed and while at that point I was really excited about the book, I wasn’t too excited for the cover. And for a really long time, I also really loved Sarah J Maas for the same things. They love the bad ass females set in these Fae worlds. For the most part, people pick up SJM and gush over the characters, especially the male characters. If you’re new to the fantasy genre, Sarah J Maas is one of those authors people pick up in hopes of finding love in the genre. This is just a reader who’s grown out of Sarah J Maas and her work. I’m just over her books and wanted to come on here and talk about why. No, this isn’t some salacious post about Sarah J Maas or the ACOTAR series.

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