The Assassin’s Blade, meanwhile, is a prequel book of short stories that was published after book two,Crown of Midnight, but is set before the events of book one. Fans — and Maas herself — have different thoughts on where this book falls in the reading order. Mass’ preferred reading ...
But after a whirlwind month in politics — a career-ending presidential debate performance, an assassination attempt and a last-minute change to the top of the Democratic ticket — book industry executives are starting to see more opportunity in this election cycle. ...
I have been able to make zero sense of this entire action sequence. It’s written like it was the last bit of the book that was worked on, like the author hurried back and quickly added it to make the deadline. It’s written like someone describing what happened in a movie they saw...
I’m not saying that’s going to happen, I’m just saying it’s a trope I wouldn’t be shocked by in this book. “And there’s no one who can help him at all?” “He would probably shred them for disobeying his order to stay away.” ...
But that afternoon, when I went to retrieve my crumpled list from the wastebasket, it was gone. And my pile of books had been disturbed—the titles out of order. It had probably been a servant, I assured myself, calming the tightness in my chest. Just Alis or some other bird-masked ...