✨Gotta Run Again✨

1. This is the most insanely gorgeous elucien piece I've ever seen

2. I don't need it displayed on Times Square right f now

3. I found it on an anti Elucien post actually

🎨 Art by: vlueberry_art (on instagram)

They’re vague but they’re here and I’m licking crumbs off my fingers for all the Elucien hints. Can we trust these description? I can’t say I trust anything with 100% certainty unless it comes directly from SJM herself. However, the publisher has access to information we don’t have and a lot of their content repeats info the New Zealand retailer posted for descriptions. I posted the screenshots here back in March…and they were taken down the very next day. I wonder why!! It is important to remember as I explained there, several countries operate under Fair Trading Act laws which means they can’t sell books with zero info to consumers. BB is undoubtably aware of this and most likely provides the barest, vaguest summaries possible to adhere to the laws. Because of this, I do think there is a high chance for legitimacy.

Links and Screenshots below

ACOTAR 6 Polish Descriptions

ACOTAR 7 Polish Descriptions

Now before I dive in, let’s look at the New Zealand retailer descriptions I mentioned that were mysteriously taken down in March hmmm…….thank goodness I save my screenshots!

There is definitely overlap of language and themes between the two likely credible sources. My guess is this is a placeholder summary Bloomsbury had to provide for legal reasons to the laws mentioned above. Which means they’re hella vague as possible to maintain their secrecy but they can’t mislead the consumer so there has to be truth to them.

It just feels like Elucien crumbs to me because:

Political intrigue across Prythian’s courts. (Lucien the courtier! NC, Autumn, Spring conflicts…can’t forget about Day’s involvement with Helion and LoA too)

Emphasis on closure and confronting of past wounds from the War (Elain!!! Lucien!!!! Unresolved since ACOWAR)

Supernatural phenomenon intertwine with court instability (sounds like Koschei…..and Beron’s alliance and how that impacts the courts)

Picking up where we left off in SF (Literally one sister remains without her mate…spring is suffering…Vassa is about to be taken back to Koschei…Beron has eyes on Spring and mortal lands…)

“What exactly is true freedom?” (Elain vs Free Will of the Bond)

Emphasis on action and romance

Deep analysis of human and fae relationships (band of exiles)

Lastly, it’s a focus on discovering one’s true identity (essential to Elain’s dilemma with her turning fae and Lucien’s entire existence lol)

Oh and one more thing for good measure. The single line BB gives us for the ACOTAR 6 description?

ROMANCE. DANGER. INTRIGUE. Same themes.

I believe Elain and Nesta became very special to Sarah because she never intended to make them likable, but still gave them traits of herself that society/patriarchy hates to see in women.

Feyre, by contrast, reads like a mirror of social expectations: always functioning and looking hot while doing so.

Aelin is the first character Sarah created at a very young age, so probably the type of woman teenage Sarah looked up to. And back in the 2013-16 YA era, there was a distinct heroine archetype: fierce, badass, and, most importantly, not like other girls. 🙂‍↕️

Their flaws always felt performative. They were stubborn or rebellious, but never too sensitive or, god forbid, passive. The girly girl was usually the naive best friend, created to make the heroine look even more intelligent, loyal, selfless, you name it.

I remember an interview where SJM said she’d love to hang out with Elain or Aelin because they like girly things. But while Aelin still fulfilled every aspect of your perfect FMC, Elain was just a woman, so ofc it was fine to trash-talk her to no end.

Another thing: I don’t think people back then were ready for the conversation about FMCs struggling with depression and books portraying how empty, useless and lazy a woman can feel. That craving love and protection doesn’t take away from her strength.

No Amren. That’s what YOU would do.