Crescent City : : House of Earth and Blood

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"Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion-otherwise known as Crescent City-has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city-and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful oblivion in the city's most notorious nightclubs. But when the murderer attacks again, Bryce finds herself dragged into the investigation and paired with an infamous Fallen angel whose own brutal past haunts his every step. Hunt Athalar, personal assassin for the Archangels, wants nothing to do with Bryce Quinlan, despite being ordered to protect her. She stands for everything he once rebelled against and seems more interested in partying than solving the murder, no matter how close to home it might hit. But Hunt soon realizes there's far more to Bryce than meets the eye-and that he's going to have to find a way to work with her if they want to solve this case. As Bryce and Hunt race to untangle the mystery, they have no way of knowing the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the darkest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir.."-- Provided by publisher.

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This is my all time favorite book. submitted by ShanleyBelle on July 19, 2021, 6:00pm I love ACOTAR, but this book is better-- the absolute best of SJM. People complain about the world building, but it's necessary and so cool to me immersed in such a world. So if it starts off with a lot of information, keep going, it's worth it!! This book will make you laugh and cry, and fall in love with so many characters. Subtle romance and an emphasis on female friendship. Must-read, must-finish. It is going to be such an amazing book series-- Book 2 (House of Sky and Breath) reportedly comes out in February!

Amazing Start to a Series submitted by rmbussa on August 2, 2021, 2:05pm I had so many favorite parts of this book. I am a huge SJM fan and she gave me exactly what I wanted and more. The main characters are loveable and amazing. The series is going to be epic. Must read!!

My Favorite New Series submitted by rishikabhutani on October 11, 2021, 10:39pm Despite the size, this book is easy to follow. It has a complex plot, incredible worldbuilding, and well-written characters. SJM's writing is always so addicting, and you absolutely don't want to put her books down. This is definitely one of the books I don't regret staying up late to finish!

Needs a heavy handed editor submitted by clk.9123 on August 21, 2022, 2:58pm Zetus lapetus. SJM could really use some therapy. And an editor who actually knows how to do the job.

This book was not good. In the past I have been quite a fan of her books, but this really was not it. I’m wondering if my more developed taste and impatience for damsel in distress women and aggressive “males” (as Maas likes to put them) has put an end to my gravitation towards her books.

Besides that theory, this really was not good writing at all. It’s very recycled from past ideas and characters and any point of originality became overshadowed by the plagiarizing of her own previous books!!! Truly wild. It’s a shame because some of her ideas were really interesting, but she wasted so much time on sh*t and borrrring drivel that it became exhausting to get to the good parts. The murder mystery was so lackluster, most of the characters fell flat and bored me to tears. The end battle scene was exciting, and I did feel invested in the outcome but...it had just went on and on and onnnn.

I did not enjoy the way she framed Bryce and Hunt. She’s described as being both powerless and weak but also strong and somehow has all this hidden magic? Like, what? And Hunt is a typical macho stereotype with so much aggression and tbh, abusive like behavior but he’s just soooooo hot omg. Who cares if you are a violent killer when you have abs like that?? Sarah doesn’t care, I guess.

This book pretends to be all “women empowerment” “women are strong” except she riddles it with slut shaming, overly sexualized descriptions of Bryce’s body, and a lot of women against women behavior.

And it really grosses me out how she writes characters that are clearly supposed to be black and brown but yet she can’t find it within herself to actually write those words or come up with a better description than “golden tan.” She has really just went and whitewashed all of these characters and made them so ambiguous that she can pretend in her mind that they’re white but if somebody calls her out on it she can say “well I never said they were white.” And then she just threw a queer couple into the mix to cover that angle as well. Which I imagine is completely insulting for probably a lot of people, considering these were fringe characters and this was just thrown in and glossed over and was barely given the light of day, unlike the way other relationships or hints at future ones, were given due time. I don’t know Sarah what’s going on with you, but you need to read the room and realize that people of color and LGBTQ people aren’t plot points that you can just chuck in to make yourself feel better hope that it will put off people from calling you out. Girl, do better.

Finally, this needed a heavy handed editor. And should have been cut down by at LEAST 300 pages. Way too much nonsense. The first draft must have been such a nightmare.

Unexpectedly great! submitted by ewraback on July 22, 2023, 7:56pm I did not expect to actually like this book. I'm so glad I was proven wrong. It took a few chapters to get into but as soon as the plot started picking up I was hooked. It also took a second to understand that this is a fantasy world that doesn't take place without technology, which was a refreshing change. The characters are compelling and I liked that we didn't fully know everything about them until the end. Honestly, probably my favorite SJM book at the moment (surpassed ACOMF).