STARS ETERNAL

Me trynna find flaws in Hunt now so I don’t feel stupid reading book 2: 

Chaorene Kid: But daaad, I can’t do my chores right now. My feet hurt :(

Chaol: Oh? Your feet hurt? Your mother healed an army and disintegrated an evil GOD while pregnant with you. You think her feet hurt? Yes. Did she do it anyways?

Yrene: I did.

“Once upon a time, in land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom… ”

aelin: hey i killed archer finn

chaol: how can someone so beautiful …commit such a heinous crime?how can one possibly enjoy revenge? how can I love her now that I know that she kills people? how can violence ever be acceptable? Can I still want to fuck her even if she enjoys killing people.,,,

lysandra:

dorian: that spot right there? thats where aelin….killed….archer finn.right there. aelin,, the assassin,,,just..killed a man at this very spot……..

Why of course

We know that when it comes to his height

Cardan is a smug little bitch about it

He loves to lean on Jude with one elbow on her shoulder

He loves to tease her with - “How’s my tiny little mortal today?” (This one earned him a hiss) and “Judie, little Judie-” (this one earned him an elbow in his gut)

But mostly, when he’s not being smug about it

Cardan is picking her up and carrying her places

Which just leaves Jude huffing about and pouting

(She secretly enjoys it, he’s sure)

He’s craning his neck to kiss her

And most of the time (because damn his neck hurts) he just wraps an arm around her and pulls her off the floor - just like that - so he can kiss her properly

Sometimes Jude finds it funny

That even tho he’s taller, Cardan has no notion of how heavy he is

He constantly lays down on top of her the way a cat would

And simply stays

And Jude can hear fifty bones breaking

But still, she can never pull him away

Because one moment he’s snuggling against her, his face buried on her neck

And the next he’s sleeping

Plus, she likes to run her fingers through his hair

And feel his body against her, because he’s always so warm and she’s always freezing

Also Cardan always leans down so Jude can kiss him

It’s cute, really - and everything they’re not

But it does happen sometimes

Whenever they greet each other in the halls during long days between meetings and schemes

He leans down

And Jude touches her lips to his cheek, his forehead

Sometimes the corner of his eyes or his jaw

Other times his lips

“How’s my queen?”

“Don’t call me that,” she’d always tell him

He’d lean down again as if he was telling her a secret, and smile against her ear, “What’s that crown in your head, then?”

But that doesn’t mean that I’m not sad that she lost them.

I loved her as Aelin Firebringer. And she came to love her magic as well. I do think it was a reasonable consequence, that she could not have forged the lock without it occurring but it still makes me sad.

And I know she’s sad about it, and Rowan is likely sad for her. And I agree with him—she gave too much.

But the story of throne of glass has never been about easy choices and Aelin was never going to have an easy road to the end of it all. We knew that.

Another thing that was “lost” in KoA was her anger. That beautiful blazing fury that made me love Aelin so much… i didn’t see it in KoA. And that’s understandable, of course, after everything she endured in Maeve’s hands.. yet I kept looking for it, waiting for it.

Feyre: The stars are so pretty tonight!

Rhys: You know what else is pretty?

Feyre: * blushes *

Aedion :

No spoilers, here’s everything that was talked about at the event last night!

When she had edited it completely, KoA was originally 1008 pages but the glue they use for binding couldn’t hold together a book more than 1000 pages long

Bloomsbury reformatted it all to less than 1000 pages because Sarah didn’t feel like she could delete any of it

She knew what the end would be five years ago while on a trip in Costa Rica at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Saw the landscape and the final sentence of the series came to her

She ended up crying in front of all of her in-laws

Lysandra’s return in Queen of Shadows was inspired by the song “Smack My Bitch Up” by The Prodigy. Not the title or the lyrics but the background music made Sarah think of Lysandra shifting into a snow leopard and she knew that she would be a shapeshifter

She wanted to make Aelin see other girls as allies and friends and to surround herself with strong women and she realized Lysandra would be the perfect best friend

The scene when Lysandra saved Rowan and Aedion in Queen of Shadows is one of Sarah’s favorites and was inspired by the song in E.T. when the kids are riding their bikes

As soon as Lysandra was there, she couldn’t imagine the series without her and she’s one of Sarah’s favorite characters

Every scene and character is inspired by music

Aelin has a theme song: “Remember Us” from the 300 soundtrack

Sarah listened to it when Chaol found out Celaena was Aelin, when the army arrives at the end of EoS, and throughout writing KoA

As she’s writing books, she makes playlists with songs for scenes and characters 

Helps when she’s editing so she can re-listen to songs that inspired that scene/chapter to re-enter the headspace

When writing scenes without music, she worries that they will be ‘emotionally dead’ and it can be a really weird experience

Rowan and Aedion are one of her favorite relationships—especially when they first meet and Aedion is geeking out. Then when Rowan gives Aedion the dagger at the end of QoS and it becomes his most prized possession

Manon and Abraxos are also one of her favorite relationships because he brings out her ‘humanity’ and begins the change that leads to her character arc

Abraxos was inspired by Ferdinand the bull and her aunt’s dog, Buddy, who was rescued from a fighting ring where he was used as a bait dog. He was abused, his teeth were all gone, and they abandoned him on the side of the highway before someone found him. Nevertheless, he was the kindest, sweetest, most trusting dog

She replicated his story in Abraxos

Aelin and Rowan is her favorite pairing

Their journey in Heir of Fire is really special for her

In Queen of Glass, Aelin and Rowan weren’t together because she was in a relationship with someone else but when Sarah wasn’t writing that, she would write fanfic smut where Aelin and Rowan were hooking up on the side

When rewriting the series for publication, she realized that Rowaelin should be together, although Rowan should come in later in the series because she wanted Aelin to have the journey of going through first love [triangle] with Dorian and Chaol

When writing Heir of Fire, she planted the seeds of their romance so when readers reread it, they could understand why he… bit her and stuff lol

The full sleeve art for the Barnes & Noble edition of Kingdom of Ash!