I hated the insta-love between Bryce and Hunt. Come on SJM!!! **FACEPALM** TOG and ACOTAR had more mature relationships and insight than this by far. The Fae Prince's frat house has a beer pong table and is littered with liquor bottles. Almost like a young teenager wrote a story about what they think life as an adult is like. What I got was the equivalent of Zootopia with foul language and sex. I expected more in depth, heart felt conversations and real life emotions. As an adult in my 30's I'm disgusted that this is considered an adult series. I absolutely loved her other books and have read them all 6+ times.

The book is literally about getting people addicted to drugs to give them super human strength to win a war. After you get through that then the over done sexual encounters, awkward cussing and the drugs start. The beginning was a hot mess and needed a flow chart to keep straight.The reader is literally bombarded with information overload about houses, gates, factions, types of monsters and so on in the first few pages. I couldn't even wrap my brain around the fact that SJM wrote this book. I cried bitter tears of disappointment from the first chapter all the way until chapter 30ish. If this had been written by any other author than SMJ, I would have returned this book within the first 6 chapters. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom - and the power of love. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and pause-resisting suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by number one New York Times best-selling author Sarah J. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach.Īs Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion - one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it.

His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose - to assassinate his boss' enemies, no questions asked.

Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. Maas launches her brand-new CRESCENT CITY series with House of Earth and Blood : the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance.īryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night - until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. Number one New York Times best-selling author Sarah J.

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