Mortal Lands: A Sarah J. Maas Book Club
Sep 16, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min · 15 segments
The book club wraps book 3 of the Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas, *House of Flame and Shadow*. The club has a second take at responding to the final chapters of the book and madness just…
I mean, I was spinning out in part for multiple reasons, because I was thinking there's nowhere to go.
Now I've read, of course, Throne of Glass and all the currently published ACOTAR books, A Court of Thorns and Roses.
And so I have some sense of a complete series and an incomplete series for Sarah.
And I think there's a chance we could change our opinions even on this one after ACOTAR 6.
But...
What I'll say is we have our identified like I was like calling the Viper Queen chump change or whatever comparatively.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Like she's like an antagonist, not a villain.
Yes.
But OK.
But do you remember when the Viper Queen has Therian drink her blood? and it is opalescent and not it's not like um the asteri the black blood that we have identified by the asteri it's opalescent and remember bryce calls the asteri blood some god blood right there's a word following don't remember like Google the word for God blood really fast.
Sure.
I core.
She calls it.
I would never remember
that.
Yeah.
But when I had looked up I core, cause it was so
you're
like,
I've never seen that word before.
What the fuck is that?
Yeah.
I mean, I was spinning out in part for multiple reasons, because I was thinking there's nowhere to go.
Now I've read, of course, Throne of Glass and all the currently published ACOTAR books, A Court of Thorns and Roses.
And so I have some sense of a complete series and an incomplete series for Sarah.
And I think there's a chance we could change our opinions even on this one after ACOTAR 6.
But...
What I'll say is we have our identified like I was like calling the Viper Queen chump change or whatever comparatively.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Like she's like an antagonist, not a villain.
Yes.
But OK.
But do you remember when the Viper Queen has Therian drink her blood? and it is opalescent and not it's not like um the asteri the black blood that we have identified by the asteri it's opalescent and remember bryce calls the asteri blood some god blood right there's a word following don't remember like Google the word for God blood really fast.
Sure.
I core.
She calls it.
I would never remember
that.
Yeah.
But when I had looked up I core, cause it was so
you're
like,
I've never seen that word before.
What the fuck is that?
Yeah.
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