#sjm reread

[foxybananaaaz]

When I hit A Court of Thorns and Roses in my re-read journey, be prepared for all the lively, sassy, humorous, Lucien Vanserra posts!

I've been debating going straight to ACOTAR right after The Assassin's Blade, but, like, I can't do that. I need to stay on track, and the reason I chose TOG first is because its "finished" and currently, as of now, not part of anything. ACOTAR and Crescent City are still going on, and having that fling together.

So I need to finish TOG. Use Happy Lucien as a reward for finishing the TOG series.

Happy Lucien is the only thing that will keep me going through ACOTAR1 too.

[captain-of-the-gwynriel-ship]

Beginning my tog re-read

If anyone wants to follow along, I’ll be posting my thoughts with the #IssyreadsSJM I am doing a full SJM universe reread!!

If anyone wants to follow along, here is my schedule!

[acourtofantumbra]

Remembering the absolute whiplash of reading this paragraph for the first time and needing to double check that I got that bit about the chains right 🥵

I was a sweet child of summer and so unprepared.

[a-library-ghost]

when I’m doing a tog reread and I finally get to qos 🤭🥰💕🫶

[petal-blush]

we’ve moved onto throne of glass in my sjm re read. i haven’t picked up those books since i was in high (2016) and like. i remembered absolutely none of it???? like this series gets absolutely flipped on it’s head as it progresses 😭

celeana, woman of a ridiculous amount of names, you are so cool. imagine having two very powerful men pining after you - albeit a little weird because they’re supposed to be your mentors 😐 but i’ll let it slide, it’s fiction.

very excited to get to heir of fire tho…….

rowan…………

[foxybananaaaz]

The main reason I'm dragging my feet with reading this damned book again to be honest!

I am too scared to read Sam's last scene. I am too scared to read Celaena finding Sam. I am too scared to relive Sam's death.

But, I must. I must, and I shall.

BUT! I! WILL! NOT! LIKE! IT!

cw: blood sam and celaena

[helion-ism]

the king of hybern randomly dropping how handsome lucien is will never not be funny to me

[acomaflove]

Sarah J. Maas Meeting with her Publisher

SJM: The ACOTAR series is going to be a fairy-tale retelling about faeries, war, and overcoming trauma.

Publisher: LOVE IT. Anything else?

SJM: Yeah, I’ll do several sequel books about side characters that will still include battles and magic.

Publisher: PERFECT! Sounds like a plan.

SJM: WAIT! In the middle, I want to post a short novella story.

Publisher: Oh cool, like a post-war transition into the sequel books?

SJM: No. Like bunch of cutesy christmas romance short stories. Just for funsies.

Publisher:

Publisher:

Publisher: Okay………weird pivot but we’ll roll with it.

[yaralulu]

Rhysand stans have chapter 54 memorized likes it’s the goddamn bible which is why it’s impossible to have a genuine discussion with them about rhys’s character.No I’m not asking you to recite rhys’s 20 page retconning monologue Im asking you if you think it was ok for him to treat feyre the way he did UTM.Please try forming your own thoughts and using your own words 🤗.

[nicolemabes]

Antis: I CANT BELIEVE FEYSAND WOULD FLIRT AND BE SEXUAL IN THE LIBRARY HOW DARE THEY

Meanwhile the text:

[foxcort]

listen its not that tamlin locking feyre in a manor is ‘not a big deal’. its that sjm parallels tamlin and rhysand way too much for rhysand to be a viable, healthy option for feyre.

rhys put a whole city under a lockdown so severe people forgot about its existence (and from what the wiki says, the city was kept hidden for centuries even before, for the safety of its citizens) but tamlin locking feyre in a manor, so she wouldn’t follow him into an unsafe situation was crossing a line?

[foxybananaaaz]

Starting my first official REread of all SJM books.

Gonna look for all parallels and theory points.

[astrababyy]

Tarquin’s face didn’t so much as shift from that cold wrath. “When you went into the Spring Court and deceived Tamlin as well about your true nature, when you destroyed his territory … You left the door open for Hybern. They docked in his harbors.” No doubt to wait for the wall to collapse and then sail south. Tarquin snarled, “It was an easy trip to my doorstep. You did this.” 

I could have sworn I felt Rhys flinch through the bond. But my mate said calmly, “We did nothing. Hybern chooses its actions, not us.” He jerked his chin toward Tarquin. “My force shall remain camped in the hills until you’ve deemed the city secure. Then we will go.”

do y’all remember this scene??? i was rereading it, and i just-

the actual audacity it takes to say hybern’s responsible for his own actions as if feyre didn’t literally DESTROY THE SPRING COURT. if she hadn’t done that, hybern’s forced NEVER would’ve made it inside the summer court. like, of course hybern is responsible for his actions, but like- so are they???? and they just??? won’t take accountability???

it’s so fucking annoying istg.

and don’t even get me STARTED on the part in purple 🗿

Tarquin only said, “Get out. And take your army with you. We can hold the bay now that they don’t have surprise on their side.”

there’s this part…

The Illyrian camp remained in the hills above Adriata.

AND THEN THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE.

why?? WHY???

and then there was that line before this one- 🗿

“She is High Lady of the Night Court. She may do as she wishes.”

THEY’RE. IN. THE. SUMMER. COURT.

imagine the absolute nerve it takes to be the reason the summer court was invaded and then be all calm and collected like you’re dealing with a stubborn toddler when talking to the high lord of the court that’s been ruined because of you, and then LEAVING YOUR ARMIES THERE AGAINST THE EXPLICIT ORDERS OF THEIR RULERS. the AUDACITY. the NERVE.

howwwww are these people the good guys??? how on this cursed planet is HE the one we’re supposed to root for????

it’s genuinely SO gross. like- the utter lack of respect for the summer court’s sovereignty??? it ain’t it. 🤢

[acourtoflight]

Sometimes I wonder if G*ynriels have to reassure themselves saying Elriel is only based on lust every time they remember Azriel wants to eat tf out of Elain like she’s a 5 course meal, and also wants to know what sounds she’d make when he enters her 😁

If the man I was shipping my fave with wanted another woman like that I would be so embarrassed tbh

And not only that but he’s also weirdly obsessed with a gift she gave him a year ago and has stared at it every night since, and he can’t sleep because he’s thinking of said woman

[ann7av]

The number of drafts I have ranting about acotar is worrying

I tried rereading the books but it almost caused me an aneurysm, then I tried with acosf and it was so much worse than I remembered

We are really supposed to think that stopping a woman from putting sugar on her oatmeal is romance? Because of reasons...?

I miss being 11 and partially incapable of critical reading, things were so much easier when I could just vibe through a book without wanting to drop-kick the mmc. (that's a lie because I wanted to kick rhysand to the curb at the time too, I'm just more passionate about it now)

[yazthebookish]

"Az carried Elain bridal style"

She was unresponsive in his arms.