Warning: This post contains spoilers for House of Flame and Shadow.
For nearly two years, fans of Sarah J. Maas have been waiting to find out how the third book in her Crescent City series, House of Flame and Shadow, will bridge the gap between two of her three fantasy worlds. The crossover has been years in the making: Mass says that while she was working on the first book in the series, 2020’s House of Earth and Blood, she already knew that book two, 2022’s House of Sky and Breath, would end with Crescent City’s human-Fae hybrid heroine Bryce Quinlan making a magic-fueled jump into another realm.
“I had sprinkled little hints throughout all of my books that they were part of a m…