WELL, CALL THIS A MASTERPIECE!!!!

At this point, how can anyone question Sarah J. Maas releasing a mindblowing book? Let alone not love it????

While I could do gladly with some parts of the fandom (huge f*ck you‘s to those spoiling the bookish community), I don‘t think I could ever do without Sarah‘s books. And just let me tell you how much I loved this one. Of course, without spoilers!

First things first, I am fully convinced that Crescent City is the best series Sarah has put out there because it is plot and character driven, and combines elements I have loved in her previous series so so much. In House of Sky and Breathe you get everything: an epic worldbuilding, a twisted magic system, a set of amazing characters of which each of them gets enough time to shine. I love how we get to discover even more of the world of this series, while the pacing knows when to slow down to give us more insight to the characters‘ thoughts and feelings. Just in the style of the previous book House of Earth and Blood, we follow the characters as they try to solve a mystery, navigating through the city, finding clues and questioning the big why‘s of this world. This time, however, more characters aside from the ones we came to love in the first installement get to shine. With multiple POVs, and several different subplots, we really get to know the cast of Crescent City so much better, making it hard to dislike any of them.

Did some aspects exist that I wasn‘t very fond of? Yes. I can‘t deny that. But thankfully, most of them very minor or at least overshadowed by the good parts of the book that I don‘t mind them as much. I guess one can go nitpicking all they want, but the fact is that this book is a rollercoaster of emotions. We get the mystery, we get the adventure, we get the smut, and we emotional moments between lovers, friends and allies, and we get a mindblowing ending that no one could have seen coming (unless you were spoiled like I was!).

I could sit down and write a lenghty review on every aspect I loved, name a few that weren‘t as exciting and analyze this whole book - but where‘s the point? I‘m glad I took my time with this, I‘m glad I joined the big world of SJM books, and I‘m once more happy to announce how much I loved a new book by this author. The Crescent City series has the potential to become my all time favorite of them all, though the need to go back and reread her previous series is strong now since I miss the characters, the worlds and generally the books I once obsessively devoured.

And now I shall excuse myself and hide in a cave, sending rambling messages to friends and trying TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS ENDING MEANS AND WHAT AWAITS US!