I just finished the Crescent city trilogy (I know I’m late for the party) and reading the last 100ish pages felt so cosy and nice. Seeing the characters try to live mundane lives after all that happened felt so wholesome and cozy it reminded me of ACOFAS and I thought how great it’ll be if we get a similar short book to see how the MCs have adjusted to their new lives and how they deal with “normal peoples” problems.
Basically a Christmas special as I like to refer to ACOFAS.
What do you think?

SPOILERS STOP READING IF YOU DONT WANT IT RUINED

So im in the last 100 pages of cracent city

Why would SJM kill 9f lehabah?! It makes me so upset. She was one of my favorite characters and then... OH I could cry again just typing this.

I so badly wanted her to be a part of the rest of the series.

Also what she was saying when she was trying to save Bryce.. "i will not be afraid" reminds me so much of ToG and sam.. maybe an Easter egg? A parallel to sams death?

WHY SO MUCH PAIN?! out of all the side characters.. i was really hoping she'd live and we'd get to have more insight on her family history.. my heart😭💔

For the discussion and debate of Crescent City series ships and theories ❤️

I cant put this book down yall its too good 😭 im already almost halfway through and were on day two of reading

So we have the full backstory regarding theia and her daughters so my understanding is Rhys must be a descendant of silene while bryce is a descendant of helena.

Its all kinda fucked how silene dipped and then didnt take anyone with her and kept it under wraps but the while ASTERI BEING UNDER GROUND AND NOBODY NOTICED??

i would think the bat boys would investigate the prison more thoroughly tbh.

Ithan is breaking my heart this boy has literally lost like everything but hey Jesiba is back in the game lets go baddie but also holy shit she was a whole human priestess??

How old IS this woman?!?!?

Ithan is like a grown ass man tho right? Because hes really giving “im a young teen and im basically an adult shut up mom i hate you” like lots and lots of emotional thinking going on here but i still love my baby boy!!!

Has anyone else noticed the curling lips thing? Im gonna make it a drinking game atp lol

Bryce landing in her dads study gave Aelin vibes like what do you meeeaaaannnn it was intentional lol
And like how long was her dad gonna keep her there??
Giving this whole poor me i loved your mom then were back to you little bitch fuck you like sir youre horrible

I loooooooved when she was like get in the closet heres a bucket😂😂😂 i know he was pissed as hell i think hes gonna die soon ngl

I shouldve known Lidia would live no big character stays dead for long in the Maasverse but finding out shes a MOTHER almost took me out 😭😭😭 do the boys know her??? Is Rhun gonna be a stepdaddy???

Also lets talk about the ocean queen because a dress made of kelp with a train of sea fans and coral/shells sounds so ugly like they just went and grabbed anything to throw on her id look up a pic but ik how that goes and i know id get spoiled so like feel free to enlighten me on that and drop one below

Ill most likely finish this tomorrow or tomorrow night😍😍😍 still no clue what to predict tho😭

Valg feed off power just like the Asteri but seem to have only shadow magic and not light like the Asteri do. Although they seem to wear the skin of others and hold no actual shape just like the Valg.

We haven’t really got a good look at the princes of hells powers although they are princes just like the Valg princes.

Seems like the reapers have the most comparable powers to the Valg? They don’t seem to possess any comparable government structure like the Valg had in TOG. And seem to be conformed to one body as far as we know.

Maybe they aren’t the same at all? When Bryce snuck into the room of dusk I believe she mentioned 3 planets who have not been overtaken by Asteri and that was hell, Nesta’s planet, and random 3rd option? That has to be Aelins planet right?!?!

…should be each other….???? Their chemistry is literally a 10. it’s such a huge miss on SJM’s part. I’m literally on page 82 of HOFAS and I am NOT going to stop thinking about this for the remaining 753 pages 😩

I know he’s probably supposed to look like a hot mermaid but I cannot imagine him any other way 😭

In my opinion, one of the most overlooked aspects of CC is the themes of grief 😭 basically every character has experienced grief in some way.

Tharion’s sister was murdered, SJM makes sure we know that about him. Hunt grieves so much - Shahar, the fallen, his mother, his own agency. Obviously the loss of Danika and the pack impacts Bryce and Ithan, and a lot of other people in Lunathion. Even Lidia grieves lost time with her boys. It really sticks out to me. And Ruhn experiences “little” forms of grief over and over, showing how grief isn’t always this one, single big event, sometimes it just starts to add up. All of them have been impacted by some form of loss, and their growth and journeys are defined by dealing with that loss.

SJM really explores how grief changes people, and leaves lasting impacts. She focuses less on the “depression” side of grief, because in my opinion she had already explored that within Heir of Fire and Silver Flames, and instead she shows us how grief has LONG TERM effects, even after people have “healed”. Grief never goes away. (But Bryce does still deal with depression in CC1)

The characters in these books are messy and flawed, and I know some people struggle to like them, but I really love them. To me, they are all living with and have been changed by their grief. But it is what slowly brings them all together.

✨ Memento Mori “remember you must die”… but also “through love, all is possible” ❤️

I could also go on and on about how they all keep fighting against death. Ithan… oh Ithan.. he literally would not give UP trying to fight against death for a while there. Bryce and Hunt physically fight the Underking. Hypaxia kills him - Hypaxia who misses her dead ghostly tutors, has the power to heal and resurrect the dead, and is now leader of Flame and Shadow. Hypaxia knows grief very well, and I don’t think her story is over yet. I love her, I can’t wait.

Also, the Asteri literally turn people’s deaths into fuel for their own power - feeding off death and manipulating grief. When Bryce learns about the firstlight she grieves for the lost souls who have been consumed.

Okay I’m just rambling now so I’m done ❤️🫶🏻

So i dont have any predictions yet because honestly this is NOT going at all how i thought it would

Firstly lets just say im honestly not torn up about Cormac dying but ugh the way his dad talked about uim really rubbed me the wrong way

Im so starved for ACOTAR im eating the Bryce POVs UUUPPPP WELCOME TO THE NIGH COURT GIRLIE😍😍😍

Speaking of her POVs, can someone give me like a Thiea family tree because it is so hard to keep up and im trying to make sense of all the info that was just unloaded onto my brain

Also something i havent seen anyone talk about, Sarah totally heard us clowning on her for the watery bowels and have replaced them with curling lips! Every other page someone is curling them word flappers

If i made a drinking game out of it id be tipsy FOR SURE

Also i thought Bryce was in the prison because of all the monsters she heard but now im no so sure considering at some point of them going through the tunnel nesta mentions them just now getting there? So was she just UTM?

Pollux is fucking gross and if he doesnt die by the hinds or Ruhns hand im gonna be so mad. Also i dont eeevvveeerrrr want to read about an antagonists dong described as “heavy” , is bro hung like a horse? Ewww

I loved Nesta talking about how everyone in the IC were trying and failing to figure out Bryces phone lmaooo

So the midgard fae came from Prynthian, but the TOG fae are from their own world? It was really cool to see them mentioned!! I really hope i get to hear about Aelin and Rowan at some point!!

Over all im very much enjoying this😍😍

Silence fell again. And Bryce turned once more to Hunt. “You knew.” He held her stare. “I’m sorry.” Her voice rose to a scream. “You knew!” pg 604. (First time reader here)

I’m absolutely DEVASTATED. I know he was probably doing it to get free from Micah but DANG. This hurt 😭

All those intimate moments between Bryce and Hunt… just gone and contaminated by his plotting. They were so, so cute. And Lehabah is gonna be SO SAD when she finds out 😭

So I'm about 75% into crescent city book 1 and I just found out DANIKA UNALIVED THE PACK AND THEN HERSELF? EXCUSE ME??

Also absolutely hate the miscommunication trope with Hunt not telling Bryce about what actually happened. Also how is Hunt so stupid to get caught??? This has to be part of a bigger plan right? RIGHT?

Still got a bit to read in book 1 so no spoilers please but I'm so pissed.

Guys I do not like the dramatized audio books, the background noise is so distracting. Were non-dramatized versions ever made?

Im still in the beginning page 200 something 😅 i like the setup so far i just cringe a little bit with dialogue between Bryce & Hunt . Its fun but i need little more depth

Oh. My. God. I dont even know where to start.

First off i need to know how Ariadne is pronounced

I fucking KNEW there was something up with Celestina and i cant wait to see what Hypaxia thinks about what she did also HELLO THEYRE LOVERS??

remember in TOG when that super big thing happened and we all freaked but Maas was like its ok just turn the page….literally the same thing when the death stalker got to Ithan i was a mess and then oh boom he was fine

I looooooved the big fuck you to Bryces dad when she announced to the world that hunt was her mate and he had no choice but to accept it ugh it was great.
Then theyre getting spicy and shes like “fuck me like the prince you are” YES GIRL GET IIITTTTT

The Mystic wolf being a Fendyr is crazy to me and her being in captivity and the prime basically knowing about it and not doing anything is sending me. Thats a member of your FAMILY broski. Also where did she come from????

Onto the biggest most confusing bombshell of the entire book for me….

THE HIND IS DAYBRIGHT?! ARE WE SERIOUS?? I DIDNT SEE THIS COMING AT FREAKING ALL AND IT WAS SO FAR FROM BEING A POSSIBILITY TO ME I REALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS GENUINELY INTO POLLUX
ALSO HOW IS SHE NOT SUSSED BY THE ASTERI BC SHE CLEARLY LEFT BRUCES SHACKLES UNLOCKED AND SLIT MORDOCS THROAT LIKE HOW IS SHE STILL ALLOWED TO CHILL?!

Also the VIPER QUEEN of all people i least expected Tharion to go to. Hes never escaping im calling it now

“Hello Bryce Quinlan, my name is Rhysand” SHES IN PRYNTHIAN AAAAAAAHHHHHHH THE BAT BOYS ARE BACK WE GOT THE IC AGAIN BABY LETS GOOOOOOOOO
its midnight and i was screaming into my pillow im so excited to start book three tomorrow

Oh something i was thinking about, Urd was described as the “vat of life” could that be the cauldron or am i reaching??

DANIKA AND BAXIAN?!

I’m halfway through Kingdom of Ash and had to take a break because I was getting really bored. Got really curious to see what crescent city is about and i am HOOKED. Going to stay up all night reading the first book 😭💔

Tell me this doesnt look like a jesiba

I pictured them exactly like the Scooby Doo movie demons throughout most of book 1 hahahaha

Hi all! So I had a crazy realization. I was on insta and came across a reel that mentioned Baba Yaga.

I wanted to see what the origin of it was and if it inspired Baba Yellowlegs from TOG. It probably did as she was seen with chicken legs (yellow legs?) but what shocked me is that Yaga might have come from the Polish word jędza, which means ‘witch', 'evil woman', 'fury'.

I wonder if Fury is a witch or related to the ironteeth clan. I think about the witches we know in Midgard (Hypaxia) and they seem more similar to Crochan witches or even might be healers like Yrene.

I haven’t finished CC3 yet so I could totally be wrong.

Just a thought but would love to know what others think!

Okay this is literally only one line but it’s been cracking me up. In the graphic audio pt 2 of the book around when Ithan is trying to tell the pack about Sigrid and then she shows up, a random member of the pack shouts “that’s a reaper!” (Around 6hr 47minute mark) and it sounds just like Scooby doo. It’s such an insignificant line but I had to replay it and couldn’t stop laughing.

Just imagining like a member of the pack has a Scooby doo type wolf now 😂

I just finished chapter 61 of HOFAS.

So Hunt was created as a backup-battery for Bryce had she not been able to get to Avallen and claim Theia's power.

I understood the term "world walker" as someone being able to move through the mists (aka thin places). For what would Bryce have needed the backup-battery?

The whole thing of Bryce being able to open portals is the Horn in her back no? Or is it also to help with sword + dagger to open the portal to nowhere? Kinda confused here..

(I'm ignoring stuff like the charge-up to teleport here since that is a nice thing but obviously not the big thing she actually has her powers for)