Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Hi Books Lover,
Despite this, like every summer, there are perfect books to take to the beach and read under the umbrella, one of them is the new masterpiece of the great Sarah J. Maas, Crescent City: The house of earth and blood, a brick of well About 700 pages, the first real adult by this author, out on Tuesday 14 for Mondadori.
If you follow the blog you know how much I love Maas, I have read every book, collection, story written by her, even the story they started writing with Susan Dennard and never completed. Basically everything, and I read this book without even reading the plot, only on the author’s trust and one thing I noticed in this reading is the author’s change of style. There was an assortment of perhaps too frequent and confusing details at first that calmed down in the reading, and also a change of setting from the usual high fantasy. Crescent City has cars, cameras, cell phones, all technology possible and imaginable, with every mystical creature in existence, each belonging to a different house.
Though despite one or two cons of this book, Crescent City has been a constant pro. Despite the fantasy world with modern additions, Maas handled it beautifully. It is confusing only at the beginning but as soon as I enter in the story mood I no longer wanted to detach myself from the pages. And the volume of pages returned as it was in the last volumes of the other Maas sagas. But if the story is done right, as in this case, the pages don’t matter.
As I said before, one of the two cons are the details that are too much. Details regarding houses, hierarchies, things that without a glossary one will never remember. But Sarah always makes up for it by creating sexy characters that make you forget the whole outline. We got a taste of Rhysand, Dorian, Chaol, Rowan and now we have Ruhn and Hunt, both of whom have key roles in society. The first is a prince and brother of Bryce, our protagonist, the second is a murderer, one could say, at the mercy of the governor following a rebellion that went wrong.
And then there is Bryce, our protagonist, who has nothing less than Aileen and Feyre. Tenacious, a real bad-ass who knows how to take care of herself, who knows how to assert herself and does not let herself get controlled by anyone. She too had a tragic past that is exposed in the first chapters of the book and then moves on to 22 months later when the situation takes a negative note again.
She, along with Ruhn and Hunt, must solve a mystery that puts their loved ones in danger. Killing that had stopped for 2 years and then suddenly resumed. Among the many characters, someone will be the culprit and it is up to Bryce and Hunt, with the help and collaboration of Ruhn, to find him.
With this saga Maas has touched as I said before the Adult genre so as to have now a complete literary career, communicated with the Young Adult, to then publish a New Adult trilogy, and finally this one. But what comes to mind right now is, if the first book had 700 pages, how many will the second have?
