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House of Sky and Breath

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Bryce and Hunt just want a normal life, but a rebellion against the Asteri drags them in. More politics, more secrets, and the first big crossover with another of the author's series. Adult romance, with explicit sex scenes

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Bryce and Hunt try to live a normal life. Then Cormac, prince of Avallen, announces he is engaged to Bryce and turns out to be a spy for the Ophion rebels. The group joins the hunt for Emile, a human boy with powers, and for Danika's secrets. Bryce and Hunt become mates. The truth comes out: the Asteri feed on the energy of the living, and Rigelus ordered Danika's death. Cormac dies blowing up an Asteri lab. Bryce, Hunt and Ruhn are captured at the Crystal Palace; Bryce opens a portal in exchange for their lives and escapes through it. Hunt is enslaved again. Bryce lands in another world, before a male who introduces himself: Rhysand. In the epilogue, Ithan wakes a wolf, the lost Fendyr heir.

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Trivia

  1. Behind the scenesFantasy of the year, again

    It won the 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy with 105,718 votes, the series' second win in a row.

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  2. Behind the scenesStore-exclusive scenes

    In the US and UK, each chain got its own bonus scene: Target a Tharion one, BAM a Ruhn one, and Barnes & Noble, Waterstones and Indigo a Bryce and Hunt one.

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  3. Behind the scenesSame painter

    The Hunt on the US cover was painted by Carlos Quevedo, who also did book 1's cover.

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  4. ReferenceHello, Bryce Quinlan

    The final scene drops Bryce into Prythian, the world of A Court of Thorns and Roses. Maas said she'd been planting hints of a shared universe for years.

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  5. SetupThe wolf in the epilogue

    Ithan refuses to leave behind the wolf who wakes in the epilogue. She is the lost Fendyr heir, and that will matter.

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