This extract made me want to read more! The first few chapters usually give me an idea if I am going to enjoy the book and the writing style and it appealed to me. I preordered the book and can't wait to find out more about our protagonists and the world itself

I loved this short snippet, teaser, sampler, whatever it is. I can’t wait to dive into this new world Sarah J Maas has created and look forward to March 3 so I can get stuck in.
Bryce is a great character, and I love the relationships she has with her friend!

I was thrilled to be given the chance to read this extract from the new book by Sarah J. Maas. I’ve read (and enjoyed) all of her other books so I knew this would be no different.

Although this was only 5 chapters it’s just as expected- well written with a good pace and lots of interesting characters.

I can’t wait for House of Earth and Blood to be released in March. I will definitely be reading it.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC extract,

I can't wait to read the whole book after reading these first few chapters! Never mind the cliffhanger, the characters drew me in from the outset and I loved the worldbuilding and the easy way Maas can explain complex magical societies without it feeling exposition-y. Definitely on my TBR pile for publication!

I WILL READ ANYTHING THIS QUEEN PUBLISHES. She has my heart, she has my trust, I love Sarah to bits, and will forever, and the excerpt was AMAZING

Praise for Sarah J Maas!

This is going to be another series that I will want to devour. Five chapters in and that definitely was not enough, I need to read the rest ASAP

Oh but I'm going to hate having to wait for the next book in the series.

This book is one of my most anticipated reads for this year!

This is only the first five chapters and I am already hooked. I need this book now so that I can find out what happens! Sarah J Maas just has this amazing writing style that captivates you and has you wanting more.

I'm so excited for this book to come out!!!

I have read the exclusive extract and this looks amazing. I have been waiting for this book for so long and have already pre ordered the book from amazon. This looks to be just as good as all her other books and so excited to read the whole book.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers.

A fantastic insight into Sarah J Mass's first endeavour into adult fantasy. I've always found Maas' writing to be on the very cusp of being within the adult fantasy genre, so it's exciting to see her finally let loose!

House of Earth and Blood, if the first five chapters are anything to go by, is set be her best book yet. With multiple characters, castes and dynamics I'm dying to read more about. Her writing seems even better than usual, with a flare for the dramatics that is so compelling. I can't wait to find out what happens next!

This feels like this could be the start of a really interesting fantasy series, but the first few chapter do feel info-dump with names, details and with the pacing.

Might not be the best place for me to start with Sarah J Maas. Am going to try A Court of Thorns and Roses when the new "adult" cover comes out in early June 2020.

5 chapters, that's all I've read and I am hooked! Just wow! So much has happened - I'm invested in the characters, already have had my heart shredded just a little bit. The world-building has shown me the city, rough ideas of the social structure, and some of the history.

It was such a cruel place to leave the excerpt (I mean, that is probably the point, to get me to read more), but before I could wait until March, now March really cannot come fast enough. I can't wait to be able to lay my hands on this book and continue the story. GIVE ME MORE!

This excerpt was so cool! I love how Sarah J Maas incorporated so many different species with humans and technology and made it all work. Learning about it, even for just five chapters, was so interesting. Maas managed to hook me so quickly and made me love the characters already. I can't wait to read the actual book and find out what happens next!

This book is one of my most anticipated books of the year so I just had to grab this exclusive extract.

Since it is just a few chapters I can't really say how good or bad the entire book is but just from the few chapters I do believe this book will be one of my most favourite books ever.

I have hooked into the story right away. The writing style is fantastic.

I do need this book NOW!!! I did pre-order House of Earth and Blood as soon as it was available for pre-order and I am glad I did. Now March 3rd can't come soon enough.

In just 5 chapters Sarah J Mass achieved to make me love her characters, laugh with them, feel for them and they suffer for them.
This is another kind of story crafted by the author that keeps the great narrative and character design that showed before on Throne of Glass and A Court of Mist and fury.
If this is just the first 5 chapters, I cannot imagine the rollercoster of emotions the whole book will be.
Looking forward for march 3.

WOW!! This book is so down my street. I haven’t read any book that has captured my imagination and interest as much as this book has in a very long time. The last time I felt so excited by a series in this genre, was when I read Kim Harrison’s The Hollow’s series. The only thing that disappointed me was that I have to wait until the book is published like everyone else, to find out what happens.

I really can’t wait to get my hands on this book! I’m so impressed with what I have read so far that I have just pre-ordered the Hardback and Kindle editions as this is a book that just has to be shown off on my book case. I could also rave all day about what I have read so far and I have had to add Sarah J Mass’ other books to my Goodreads TBR list.


Bryce Quinlan is half human half fae. She lives with her best friend Danika Fendyr a wolf shifter in the Crescent City formally known as Lunathion. She works in an antiques gallery, while Danika is an alpha wolf and her job is securing the safety of the city with her pack. They also have two other friends that they met at CCU (Crescent City University), Fury who it turns out was actually undercover when they met. She is an assassin for hire apart from that they don’t know much about her work. Then lastly there is sweet Juniper the faun, who defied the odds and became a ballet dancer as ballet dancers are usually Fae, Nymph’s and Sylphs. When the girls get together on a night out they know only how to party hard.

Today though wasn’t a good day as Danika, had been informed that Philip Briggs a human who is hell bent on causing a human rebellion. Has been released from prison on a technicality. They also know that with him being released that he will have it in for Danika and her pack as they are the ones to have caught and imprisoned him.

Danika turns up at Bryce’s place of work, needing to use the facilities there as she needs to get a quick shower and a change of clothes as she has a council meeting. Bryce’s boss isn’t happy about Danika using her gallery as a base but Dankia keeps saying that the gallery is so central to her job. When Danika is ready Bryce leaves the gallery with her, as she is trying to find any leads she can about a relic that has recently been stolen. On parting ways Danika tells Bryce to be careful and that they’ll see each other at home after work.

When Bryce finally gets home form work, she can hear the noise coming from the flat she shares with Danika and she realises that it’s Thursday. As Thursday night was pack night. Danika never missed pack night as this is what makes the bond between herself and her pack stronger. But as Bryce entered the flat all she wants to do was cosy up in her room with a good book. Until one of the pack members reminds her that she has a date with her human boyfriend. So within a short space of time Bryce showers and gets ready. When she exits her room the pack notice that she hasn’t spent anytime getting ready and that she has’t put on any makeup, which indicates to them all that she isn’t really interested in her date.

When she has arrived at the expensive restaurant, that she can’t even afford to buy a drink in. She orders two glasses of water and a bottle of wine, by the time she has finished the glasses of water and has nearly finished the bottle of wine 45 minutes have past. She is starting to worry that her boyfriend isn’t going to turn up. When he eventually does turn up he hardly takes any notice of Bryce as he’s still working on his phone. So fed up of having to wait so long and then to be ignored Bryce orders another bottle of wine. When the bottle of wine arrives she grabs it and tells her date that she’s leaving him and just walks out of the restaurant.

Once outside she calls Fury and Juniper and organises to meet them at the club as she just knows she can’t go home yet she wants and needs to party and go wild and dance the night away. After drinking, taking drugs and dancing the night away Bryce struggles to get back in to her apartment block, she knows that she can’t make lots of noise or even ring the buzzer to gain access so she struggles with the lock and then she struggles walking up the stairs to the flat.

Even in her drunken and drugged state Bryce knows something is wrong and once she get to the front door of the flat, she realises something is very very wrong. The door is open and she can smell something. On entering the flat the furniture is in disarray and broken, walking over to her bedroom the door is off its hinges and there is Danika on her bed dead, along with her pack. They have all been shredded to bits.

What happens next I don’t know and I can’t wait to find out, the sample chapters have left us at a cliff hanger. So needless to say I can’t wait for the book to land on my doorstep, so I can find out what happens.

I can not wait for Crescent City to finally be published and available for me to read in full.
This extract was such a tease of the amazing novel that's to come.
As a huge fan of the Throne of Glass series I am ready for the next series Sarah J. Maas is going to give us.
I'm hooked from the first few sentences, there's such an ease of reading to the writing.
I'm excited to get lost in another fantastic world.

I really have nothing more to say than I love Sarah J Maas. Her writing, her stories, her characters... EVERYTHING.

I have pre-ordered this book and you need to too!!!

Thank you to Netgalley for the preview of Sarah J Maas new book - I LOVED it!

I have been a big fan of hers for years, enjoying both the Throne of Glass and the ACOTAR series hugely and held out hope that the new adult series would be equally as wonderful - and it seems like it's off to a fantastic start.

Maas does not hold back when it comes to world building, weaving clear description seamlessly, without it seeming 'clunky' or very obviously explained to the reader. Our protagnoist Bryce seems strong and intelligent and her story seems an interesting one that I look forward to reading more about.

I have pre-ordered the full novel and cannot wait for the release!

It was short but promising, a lot.
I am a big Sarah J. Maas fan, so I started this thinking I'd love it. Actually, funny enough, the first chapters weren't that interesting... but that last one! Something inside of me was telling me to wait for something like that... and still, Sarah totally surprised me! I can't wait to read how it will go on, I have my opinions, and I believe it will be great. I cannot give to this excerpt as it is five stars, but I'm convinced the whole book will reach them easily.
About the extract: at first, I was a bit confused, but then I started to understand the world (though there is still much more to be discovered). I was amazed at the world-building: that mix of magic and technology and all kinds of magical creatures. It is clear that there is a lot of work behind it and I'm eager to explore in the next chapters how the political intrigues will develop.
Aside from the Fae and the hot guys that are common of Sarah's works, there is also the typical female friendship of girls who are no damsels in distress! Indeed, Bryce is no Celaena or Feyre, but she is still a strong-willed protagonist with the potential to evolve in something—someone very powerful.

I loved getting the chance to read an early extract of this book and can’t wait to get the complete story!