Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood

Book #1 in Crescent City series

By Sarah J Maas

799 pages

Adult Fantasy 

Hardback

Library 

This is the last of the books I checked out right before Spring Break.

I was expecting full fantasy like no technology setting. But there are cars, and cell phones, and coffee machines, and art galleries. There are police who are wolves and wraith and fae. There are dancers who are fauns. All of the fantasy creatures are in here. You want mermaids? Got them. Shape-shifting people? Done. Assassins? Yes. (Okay, not a fantasy creature, but still...)

There is a LOT happening in this book - drugs, murder, politics, family drama, ancient mystical heirlooms, sex, magic, bureaucracy, failed rebellion, slavery, those things at the park you shout in and have someone listen at the other end...

I love this picture, but I'm also like What does this have to do with the book? She's neat though. 

This is the city! I love a map.

All of the houses came up in the course of this book. The protagonist is half human, so maybe that's why the book is called House of Earth and Blood? The other main characters are primarily from Sky & Breath. Which us the name of the next book. Which I have put on hold at the library. 

First page.

Author info.

It was super readable. Plot was convoluted in a good way. Characters interesting ans complex.