– My Queen of Shadows has left the building and won’t arrive until September 7! =/ –

I was searching for something the other day and came across this brilliant Tumblr post with a lot of facts and information about Sarah J. Maas, her books, her upcoming books, etc. This list is NOT MINE! I repeat, it is NOT MINE! I found it of HERE. But given that I can’t reblog Tumblr posts to WordPress, here it is. If you have Tumblr, make sure to visit the original post there, ok?

I will warn you, there will obviously be some kind of SPOILERS, though not that many plotwise. You can just skip the topics you don’t want to know about! 😉 (I will be making some comments of a few lines and those will be in pink).

EVERYTHING YOU MISSED AT THE #ACOTARPARTY

Throne of Glass

Chaol POV in QoS – wait, didn’t he have POV in all the books so far?! I’m confused!
HoF was hardest to write
Manon’s POV is easiest to get into
Aelin-Manon meeting in QOS !!! – YAY! Wonder how that’ll go down…
In regards to how mad Aelin will be when she returns to Adarlan: “Aelin will be mad enough when she returns that it’s a good thing her magic is stifled” – Will she get even madder when she finds out that her cousin is locked away and her Prince is wearing a collar?
“Definitely possible” for Fae to have more than one soul mate!!! – My SHIP WILL SAIL! Just saying, I want Rowan and Aelin to happen!
Character Sarah is most excited for us to meet/re-meet in QoS = Lysandra
Asterin Blackbeak is wanted for murder – Not surprised! Still like her though.
Five year old Dorian would want 30 year old Dorian to be an “epic dragon-slayer” – He’s still very much on time for that! How awesome is Dorian, right?
If Sarah could bring back any character that she killed, it would be Nehemia
Sneak Peeks into QOS: “Violence, revenge, steamytimes, attitude problems, epic shenanigans… the usual” – Ok, steamytimes Sarah?! Who exactly will Aelin be having steamy times with?
Rowan’s cadre may “purrrrrrrhaps” show up again – YAY!!! I want to know all of them better.
On whether Aelin’s fae-ness makes her immortal: “you’ll find that out in future books” – My bet is on yes! It would make so much sense, and then she could be with Rowan… forever…
Influence for Rowan: “Rowan just walked into my head one day, and that was that” – Thank you for that, now he has walked into my head and he doesn’t want to leave!
QOS is just over 180k words
SJM knows how ToG will end but “still many, many stories to be told in that world afterwards”
Manon likes to have her hair brushed – by Asterin?! I’m still shipping it.
Yrene will be returning in future ToG books
Celaena’s weapon of choice = daggers
Fleetfoot is 100% confirmed to survive the series – Thank goodness for that!
Nox will return (as of right now ) but not is QoS
“Nox has been off on some VERY fun adventures since TOG” – I’m strangely curious about this.
Best thing about writing Celaena = her fire (figurative and literal)
Ending of ToG won’t be like fiction press draft which Sarah considers to be “an entirely different book” of which “everything has been thrown out”
Dorian stole a berry pie from castle kitchen when he was 11, ate the whole thing and was sick for a day (random fact) – yep, can totally see that!
Dorian is 6′0, Chaol is 6′1, Celaena is 5′7-5′8, Aedion is 6′3, Rowan is around 6′4
Ansel will return
“Perhaps” we will see the Silent Assassin’s again. “Perhaps” they will play a role in later books.
Rowan would win in a fight against Legolas… “Duh”! – Duh in deed!
Chaol gets his “fair share of page time” in QoS
Ironteeth “witches have slits high up in their gums where the iron teeth snap down/over their normal teeth”
Arobynn is mid-late 30s
Piano is only instrument Celaena can play
Chaol has “the NICEST buns” (lol)
It was always the plan for Sam to die
“Sam is 1000% dead and never coming back” – Sorry people, no Sam coming back from the dead!
Chaol had “a few” love interests before Celaena – Strangely, I would like to hear more about them.
Most important question asked (according to SJM): “who has the better bum, Chaol, Dorian or Rowan?” – SJM won’t answer except to say that Celaena definitely has an opinion on this – I bet Celaena’s opinion is that it’s Chaol, given that she saw them and all… in my head, it’s Rowan, or Aedion…
SJM knows who Celaena is going to end up with – Can she tells us before 2017?!

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Lots of romance and some sexytimes – YES! I need more Tamlin/Feyre sexytimes!
Working on last names for Tamlin and co.
Potential companion novels!
Book #2 is currently only Feyre’s POV
More Nesta and future ACOTAR books
(spoiler-y) Someone special for Lucien down the road – He so deserves it. My baby deserves all good things, he has been through enough.
Took 5 weeks to write first draft (”crazy fast”)
Book 2 is longer (as of right now)
Currently no time to write ACOTAR novellas but “maybe one day”
Rhys is favorite character to write in ACOTAR
Tamlin’s chest is so chiseled, “you could literally crack a nut on his chest” – 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Rest of ACOTAR will have fairy tale roots but any specifics would be “spoiler-y”

TOG + ACOTAR

Celaena was harder to write than Feyre because “I had to rip open old wounds and dark parts of myself to write HOF”
Lucien and Dorian would be “bffers” – I can totally see this, because they have kind of a similar sense of humour.
ACOTAR cover might be favorite
Chaol and Tamlin would be good friends (but tense at first)
If Celaena and Feyre met, “they would be like two cats meeting for the first time”
ACOTAR men would not know what to do with Celaena, she would eat them all alive – She would, and I would love to read about that. Is there some fanfiction anywhere about this?
Favorite villain to write = Manon’s grandmother
SJM’s advice to surviving SJM’s endings: “invest in tissues. and chocolate” – Buying chocolate on the next trip to the supermarket.
Cover color decisions are not up to SJM
“TOG and ACOTAR are in the same Megaverse. So you could technically open a Wyrdgate between their worlds.”
Working on sharing annotated playlists but “they’re all really realllllly long”

Character Personalities

Feyre would love Sophia Coppola films
Celaena would love Gone With the Wind
Dorian would love classics (films) – And he would pick some classy pick up lines from them, no doubt.
“Rhys wears black boxers… when he feels like wearing underwear at all.”
If Celaena were an animal, she would “10000%” be a velociraptor
Feyre’s sport is cross-country or swimming
Manon’s sport is ice-hockey (without pads preferable)
Celaena’s sport is soccer
Feyre’s most visited website = Pinterest
Celaena’s most visited website = Goodreads
Rhys’ theme song = “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred – LOL!
Celaena’s unofficial theme song = “Back in Black” by AC/DC
TOG characters who would have tattoos (if modern day): Aedion, Celaena, Rowan, Nehemia
TOG characters who would not have tattoos (if modern day): Manon, Dorian, Chaol
Celaena is a “double-shot-espresso-hold-the-bs” type of person (not tea) – Never a doubt in my mind about that.

Writing

SJM likes/prefers writing longer books
“Might have something up her sleeve” in terms of what book she will right after the current two series are done
“Every book is it’s own journey and has its own challenges– and it definitely doesn’t get any easier.”
“HATES” outlining but makes “extensive playlists” to “keep track of story structure”
Will “NEVER be done adding hot men to the line-up” – Yes Please! More Hot Men coming!
Needs to have a beginning and ending before committing to a story
Other fairy tales Sarah would consider adapting = Firebird Legends, Vasilisa the Brave/Beautiful (Russian folklore)
Can write male and female characters of equal awesomeness because she “sold her soul to a demon at the crossroads at midnight” – is she watching too much Supernatural?

Sarah J Maas

Best Book Sarah’s read in the last year = Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
Favorite Anime (growing up) = Sailor Moon, Utena, Magic Knight, Rayearth, Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yuugi, and Ronin Warriors
Won’t answer which male character she would be with because people might read too much into it
Would take on Mydengaard Wyrm (from ACOTAR) and “be a BAMF”
Met Susan Dennard online via a group blog, “rest is history”
Favorite line from ToG = “Because hers was not a story of darkness.”
Preferred superpower = shape shifting
Would shape-shift into tiger or dragon or velociraptor
Would be best friends with Asterin Blackbeak in real life
If Celaena were to all of a sudden appear in real life, SJM would first and foremost introduce her to iTunes
Before writing, wanted to be a marine biologist living on a boat and studying great white sharks
“PROUD Feminist”
Has an entire shelf in her fridge dedicated to cheese

How has August came to an end already?! This month went by way too fast… WOW! So, once again, welcome back to my August Book Haul.

This month I bought very few books. I was amazed at myself really! But I ended up hauling a lot of them, mostly e-books, given that this was my first month in NetGalley and Edelweiss… So, without further ado, I present the physical books I got this month.

Funny haul, ah? I bought 3 traveling books for my upcoming trip to Seoul and Japan in October. The first two are for my mom’s collection – we always buy these and in truth, we just open them on the plane… Then I got A Geek in Japan, because I so fell in love with the concept of this book, and I’m a geek and I’ll be in Japan!

Then I got the amazing The Wrath and The Dawn by Renée Ahdieh and after reading Shatter Me, I couldn’t resist and bought the novellas, Unite Me by Tahereh Mafi, and I already read Destroy Me.

I also got the amazing audiobook of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day.

Now the longer part… eBooks! I got my kindle on the first week of August, but I bought a few books even before I got it. The firsts (and so far only) books that I bought for my Kindle were: The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle – Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes and An Echo in the Bone. I want to get to this series eventually, but honestly I bought it because the price was too good to pass up… a little over 2$ for 7 HUGE books! It was a true steal, and I’m super happy about this buy.