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Hunt and Bryce are the ultimate power couple and I am obsessed!! They work to build their emotional bond before moving any further, all the while fighting the same fight against their rulers secretly. The entire time I was reading this book, I never felt like I could put it down.
Left on an even bigger cliffhanger at the end of this book, and <A CROSSOVER BETWEEN CRESCENT CITY AND ACOTAR WAS REVEALED!!!!> CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!!!!!!

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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adventurous slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

It's slow to read for the first 2/3 of the book, it starts twisting and turning after that and the end leaves the reader a bit bewildered and anxious about the next book. Not her best, good. Hoping that the rest of the series improves. Still excessive use of the word F--- which is fine but it's like a word just discovered by a child and is somehow used at least once a page.

Severe lack of diversity.

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ka_ke's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

When I tell you I screamed, I laughed, and I cried you have no choice to believe it. The last line on page 798 made me so excited. I am ready for the next CC book and the next

ACOTAR book

. The spice is incredible, and I have definitely fallen into Maas destruction once again.

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lifeonasofa's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

House of Sky and Breath 🌃

Bryce smiled sweetly at Cormac. “I get that you want to play Broody Prince, but don’t ever fucking interrupt me again” 😌 Sarah J Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 3.5 Stars

I’ve held off writing this, I just didn’t know how I felt. HOEAB was a big surprise for me earlier this year, becoming my favourite book ever. I was both excited and terrified to read AHOSAB 🥰

Bryce was still her badass self which gave me life. The bro house was PERFECT - loved the addition of Ithan. More bromance please! Ruhn stole the show, SO glad we got more character development for him. Hunt was SO loveably hot but I’m worried for him going into CC3. Also perfect level of smut, didn’t take over the book 💋

Whilst I adored all the characters, and didn’t see a lot of the twists and turns coming, this book just didn’t hit the mark for me plot wise. I enjoyed the wolf story, the drama at Hunts work, Bryce’s family issues and Aidas. But it all felt very bitty. I feel like our girl Danika was being USED to info dump, she deserved better 👀

Compared to HOEAB, I was disappointed, it didn’t feel the same and about 500 pages felt wasted. There were constant references to powers but no action or stakes. We did get a very climatic ending which was promising. I was on the edge of my seat, reading so fast, I felt sick and then…HE walked in at the end. NO. 🤯

⛔️ Spoilers ⛔️ I wish Maas had given the CC bunch their own series before merging. CC was new and fresh, the characters were her BEST yet. A collision AFTER CC has finished - I’m here for but I feel sad they have to share the stage so early. 😭

Overall, I am going into CC3 hopeful that the original vibe will return, that this does all equate to the best plot ever and that the ACOTAR guys are simple cameos but…I’m nervous. 😬

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

HYPERVENTILATING

So this book is slower than the first one so for awhile there I was like solid 4⭐️ But holy sh!t the last 100 pages! I was screaming. I was rioting. I was sobbing. I was speaking in tongues. I was hyperventilating. The ending. Oh my god. I can feel that I’m crash landing into a reading slump as I type this. Will I ever recover?

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

OH MY GOD I NEED BOOK 3 RIGHT NOW

I seriously can't even form the right words to describe how I'm feeling right now. Especially after the recent information Sarah has released about Book 3. This book is a roller coaster of questioning what is truly good and what is truly bad. It makes the reader wonder just how far someone should go for those they love and/or the greater good. It acknowledges the weaknesses of the characters by exploiting those weakness and being so realistic. Just the idea of what will happen in Book 3 has my mind spinning in a maelstrom of theories.

I've learned to always look between every word and to think outside the box no matter how outrageous the thought is when it comes to Sarah's writing. Although I did spoil quite a bit of the end for myself, I never would have been able to predict half of the plot twists in this book.

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dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Oh, boy. I’ll admit I’m nervous to post my review for this one. I do NOT need the backlash. But since I discuss books here I will go ahead and review this one. House of Sky and Breath is the second book in the Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas. In book one we meet Bryce and Hunt who must uncover the truth of who murdered her best friend and her best friend’s werewolf pack. In book two both the world and the political intrigue are expanded as we continue to follow the lives of the Fae, Werewolves, Shifters, and Angels from book one.

I found three things about this book to be particularly annoying: 1) it was unnecessarily dense, 2) it was unnecessarily long, and 3) it had unnecessary sex scenes. Though, being the asexual that I am, I find almost all sex scenes to be unnecessary. The frequency of these sex scenes is what annoyed me more than anything. In the first 250 pages we got one, and then it kept speeding up from there. A hundred pages later, then fifty pages later, then in back to back chapters. I get it, you’re mated and this is the best sex ever or whatever. But...can we get back to the rebellion here??? I truly think Maas’s publishers just let her write whatever she wants at this point. Not only in content but also length of the novel. This whole book could have happened in 500 or 600 pages. Easy. But other things that I’ve seen mentioned that also bothered me to a lesser degree were: WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? We get one female perspective and a bunch of male perspectives. Which is annoying. But the female characters we do get aren’t as well fleshed out or are barely seen on the page. I get that Bryce is supposed to be beloved by all the men she meets, but can that not happen with another main female character in the picture? Also the pacing is pretty off. I felt like the last 125 pages had all of the action while the first 672 were all meandering. I know we had to work up to the action scenes at the end, but the pace was so lopsided.

But, after giving all the Maas Stans a heart attack, let’s discuss the things I enjoyed in this one. I still enjoy Bryce and Hunt as a couple for the most part. I wish things didn’t go from “Hello” to sex in the blink of an eye, but I still like them together and I still believe in their romance. I also still love this world and this magic system for the most part. (Bryce basically being a magical battery not withstanding.) I also loved the direction this one went in terms of the politics and the stakes really being raised for our heroes. I’m on the fence about continuing the series. I’ve heard it could be a trilogy so that might be okay. But I’m also really doubting that given where this book left off. I don’t know if there’s a way to wrap up this series in one book. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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