5/25/2023 0 Comments Crescent city series![]() ![]() ![]() Her Crescent City series is Maas’ first adult contemporary fantasy offering, and its first installment, House of Earth and Blood, was everything fans loved about her young adult novels, simply turned up to eleven. (And who are precisely the sort of characters who don’t often have multi-book series built around them.) But what really makes her stories sing are her heroines: multifaceted female characters full of heart and grit, these are women that are easy to root for, despite their often obvious flaws. Full of complex worldbuilding, smoldering romances, and propulsive, often shocking plot twists, her books are exhilarating, emotional, and can often feel impossible to put down-even when they clock in at over 800 pages.įrom her epic, adventure-filled Throne of Glass series to her slightly more magical and romantic A Court of Thorns and Roses books, Maas excels at crafting rich, thoroughly lived-in fantasy worlds, with the sort of scope, heft, and internal mythology that tends to define the genre’s most successful doorstoppers. To put it bluntly, no one does doorstopper female-focused fantasy like Sarah J. ![]()
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