Just thinking about the precious minutes SJM spent confirming that Bryce and Hunt are mates even though it was well established in HOSAB and further solidified in the blurb for HOFAS, when she could have been talking about Ruhn and Lidia.
The fact that SJM has always loved Taylor Swift - and now her son is obsessed with her too (that’s so freaking cute 🤏🥹✨mini swiftie)
"Taran is obsessed with Taylor Swift. Aren't we all?"
"I've always loved her. I think she's an incredible creator and like businesswoman and I have so much respect for her."
“But now that Taran is obsessed with her- like, we've only listened to her music in the car. That's it, like all summer long."
I also love TS and I LOVE that SJM made Gwyn a mezzo-soprano too so that I can imagine Gwyn singing every time I listen to a Taylor Swift song 🥹🩵
maybe sarah …. should’ve kept some of those chapters in so that half the nesta stans didn’t turn around and say fuck u cassian ur cancelled as a nesta love interest for ur behaviour 💀
Officially two more weeks until the SJM interview!!
Here’s a link to buy tickets if you haven’t already!
I have such high hopes for this interview!! 🤍🌸hopefully we’ll get a new book announcement (Elains book hehe) or at least answers to a lot of quality questions !!
Reflections on an audiobook revisitation, character retcons, and a podcast recommendation.
Translate all that to mean this: We have no money to launch a real ecclesiastical career for you, to make you a bishop or cardinal as befits our rank, so you have to live out your life here as an illiterate and a beggar. Come in the great hall and play chess with your father.
The Vampire Lestat
Lestat was…
“You said you had an eight-pointed star tattooed on you,” Bryce explained. “And you found the chamber with the eight-pointed star in the Prison, too.”
Nesta lifted her head. “So?”
“So I want you to take the Starsword.” Bryce held the blade between them. “Gwydion—whatever you call it here. The age of the Starborn is over on Midgard. It ends with me.”
“I don’t understand.”
But Bryce began backing toward the portal, taking Hunt’s hand, and smiled again at the female, at her mate, at their world, as the Northern Rift began to close. “I think that eight-pointed star was tattooed on you for a reason. Take that sword and go figure out why.”
- HOFAS, Chapter 100.
In one of her past interviews, Sarah J. Maas commented Nesta's journey was just beginning after Silver Flames, and after reading House of Flame & Shadow I believe part of her journey will be linked to the Dusk Court, as not only did Nesta bargaining mark has an eight-pointed star form (which is associated with the Starborns and thus the Dusk Court), as now she is the Gwydion owner. And as much as Nesta power is usually linked to death, its also showed capable of bringing life (as we have seen with the House of the Wind and Feyre & Nyx). I also found it particularly curious that Pegasus started appearing in Avallen once the land was healed, since Pegasus seem to have an association with the Valkyries.
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