“Just-let me touch you.” He palmed my breast for emphasis.ĮoS: 'He leaned in, claiming her mouth as he began to move, and they let go entirely.' And, 'She dug in her fingers, dragging her nails across his back, claiming him, marking him.'ĪCoMaF: 'He swept in, claiming me, branding me.'ĭo you remember the mountain thing in AcoMaF? 'Rhys roared as he came, slamming in to the hilt. “Let me touch you.”ĪCoMaF: “I want to touch you first,” he said, his voice so guttural I barely recognized it. And I most certainly did not need that.Īnd this isn't just a subjective impression: I have proof, and here it is.ĮoS: “I’m not taking you against a tree the first time.”ĪCoMaF: “When you lick me,” (whatever that's supposed to mean) he said roughly, “I want to be alone -far away from everyone.”ĮoS: “You are mine,” Rowan breathed, and she felt the claiming in her bones, her soul.ĪCoMaF: “You’re mine,” he snarled, and hefted me up into his arms.ĮoS: “Let me,” Rowan growled onto the sea-slick skin between her breasts. Because, people, I basically re-read A Court of Mist and Fury. The secret being, Maas plagiarized herself. (Even she acknowledges the thing got way out of her hand.) No doubt stunned by the beauty, the grace, the blah-blah-blah perfectness of her.' 'Fenrys slid in behind them, his attention going right to the witch. And fit in with the cranky immortals, I suppose.”' “Believe it or not, this ship has an unnatural number of attractive men and women on board. A massacre or two would have spiced things up.) (Because rest assured they'll use every single one of them to have sex or to seduce someone into having sex, and sometimes not even imminent danger will be enough of a deterrent. 'You will hate any moment of peace or happiness.' Maas reviewed her own poetics in one of her books. A New York native, Sarah lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and dog.*Do I need to remind you to be civil? No, I don’t.

Her books are published in over thirty-six languages. Maas is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series, as well as the Court of Thorns and Roses series. When her competitors start dying one by one, Celaena’s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass–and it’s there to kill. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king’s champion.

She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle.

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas