A Court of Frost and Starlight
Sarah J. Maas, 2018
Fantasy Young adultContemporary fictionRomance
A winter solstice in the Night Court: snowball fights, decorating disasters, and a family that fought a war and is now learning how to rest. A warm, witty holiday pause with lyrical touches, full of family banter, tenderness, and the relief of resting after hard times.
Feels like joy, tenderness and hope. About love, family and home.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy quiet holiday scenes, playful family banter, and romance set in a fantasy world. The book is a short, low-stakes interlude, so if you want a full adventure with a driving plot, it may feel slight.
Why read it
It offers a gentle breather after the series' heavier conflicts, letting you sit with these characters as they decorate, joke, and begin to heal.
A page from the book
What it feels like to be the last two people awake in the world.
Stars flickered around us, sweet darkness sweeping in. As if we were the only souls in a galaxy. Sarah J. Maas.Maas began writing Throne of Glass at sixteen and posted it chapter by chapter on FictionPress, where it drew millions of reads before she found a publisher.
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A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas, 2016
A woman remade by magic must decide whether the male everyone fears is her captor or her way out. Slow-burn fae romance with a survivor at its centre.
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas, 2017
A fantasy romance of war, winged courts and dangerous bargains, where love is a weapon and every alliance has teeth.
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Questions readers ask
- Is A Court of Frost and Starlight for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy quiet holiday scenes, playful family banter, and romance set in a fantasy world. The book is a short, low-stakes interlude, so if you want a full adventure with a driving plot, it may feel slight.
- What is A Court of Frost and Starlight like?
- A warm, witty holiday pause with lyrical touches, full of family banter, tenderness, and the relief of resting after hard times. Feels like joy, tenderness and hope. About love, family and home.
- What should I read after A Court of Frost and Starlight?
- If you liked A Court of Frost and Starlight, try If I Stay (Gayle Forman), The Seven Year Slip (Ashley Poston) and Just for the Summer (Abby Jimenez).
A taste of the feed
How fast an ordinary morning can become a road full of metal.
The car is eviscerated. The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb. It tore off the doors, sent the front-side passenger seat through the driver’s-side window. It flipped the chassis, bouncing it across the road and ripped the engine apart as if it were no stronger than a spiderweb. It tossed wheels and hubcaps deep into the forest. It ignited bits of the gas tank, so that now tiny flames lap at the wet road.
If I Stay · Gayle Forman
Some people are simply at home in the world. The rest of us watch them.
It must have worked for her, because it never mattered where she was in the world, she was home. She waltzed through life like she belonged at every party she was never invited to, fell in love with every lonely heart she found, and found luck in every adventure. She had that air about her-tourists asked her for directions when she went abroad, servers asked her opinion on wines and fine whiskeys, celebrities asked her about her life.
The Seven Year Slip · Ashley Poston
Some people spend years being told their needs are too many.
You’re not asking too much,“ he said. ”You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.
Just for the Summer · Abby Jimenez
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