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- Behind the scenesA five-week first draft
Sarah J. Maas started writing the book in early 2009. The first draft took about five weeks. The book didn't hit shelves until May 2015.
source ↗ - ReferenceThree fairy tales at the root
It began as a retelling of three tales: Beauty and the Beast, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and the Scottish ballad Tam Lin. Along the way the story took on a life of its own and stopped being a straight retelling.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCreatures from other myths
Maas built on Irish, English and Scottish mythology but borrowed creatures from other cultures. The naga, for example, come from Hindu mythology. She also said she knew from the start this world would be darker and more sensual.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA hit nine years later
In March 2024, nine years after release, it was the No. 2 print book in the U.S., selling 139,440 copies that month, per Circana. BookTok drove the surge.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe show that never was
In 2021, Hulu began developing a series with Outlander's Ronald D. Moore, with Maas herself working on scripts. In February 2025, the project was scrapped before anything was shot.
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- Behind the scenesIt almost had another name
The book went through several working titles before landing on A Court of Mist and Fury. Two of them: A Court of Wind and Stone and A Court of Stars and Frost.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA draft with two narrators
The first draft was written entirely in a split point of view between Feyre and Rhysand. In the published version, Feyre narrates, as in book 1.
source ↗ - ReferenceHades, Persephone and Hansel and Gretel
The book draws on the myth of Hades and Persephone. The Weaver, whom Feyre visits, was inspired by the witch in Hansel and Gretel.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA Goodreads win
The book won the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, picked by readers' votes.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesAmong the most challenged
In 2022, the American Library Association listed the book as tied for 10th most challenged in the U.S., over its sex scenes.
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- Behind the scenesThe planned end of the trilogy
The book closes Feyre's original trilogy. In July 2016, almost a year before release, Entertainment Weekly was already reporting five more books set in the same world.
source ↗ - ReferenceAn echo of Exodus
The old story of Miryam and Drakon, told in this book, was loosely inspired by the Book of Exodus.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe cover
The final cover of the original U.S. edition was designed by Adrian Dadich.
source ↗ - SetupWatch Nesta
Keep an eye on Nesta and what the Cauldron left in her. That thread doesn't end here, and it comes back in a big way later.
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- Behind the scenesLonger than a novella
Maas revealed the title on Instagram in November 2017. She called it a bit longer than a novella but not a full-length book, bridging the trilogy and the books to come.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSeveral narrators
Unlike the trilogy, told only by Feyre, this book switches narrators. One chapter belongs to Mor, in first person, and deals with an old trauma of hers.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesPulled from schools
In 2023, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina voted to remove this book from their libraries.
source ↗ - SetupMind the last chapter
The book ends with a scene that sets up the next one. Pay attention to who's in it.
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- Behind the scenesNearly 95,000 in week one
Released Feb. 16, 2021, the book sold nearly 95,000 print copies in its first U.S. week and was the week's top adult fiction title.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesGoodreads' best fantasy
Readers voted it Best Fantasy of 2021 in the Goodreads Choice Awards.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe mask on the cover
Maas said her publisher values her input on covers. She called the mask on this one "badass and sexy and creepy and mysterious."
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNo shame about sex
Maas summed the book up as Nesta's story, with lots of action, new characters and steamy scenes. She said no one should be made to feel embarrassed for liking sex.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe saga goes on
After this book, the series went more than five years without a new novel. Book six, A Court of Splintered Harmony, is out Oct. 27, 2026, and book seven, A Court of Forgotten Melody, on Jan. 12, 2027.
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