House of Earth and Blood (2019)
House of Earth and Blood is a 2019 fantasy book written by Sarah J. Maas.
Crescent City runs on old magic and new money, and Bryce Quinlan works its clubs and galleries by day and its parties by night. A demon slaughters her closest friends, and the pursuit of justice pulls her into the city's darker machinery. Hunt Athalar, a Fallen angel bound to serve the Archangels as their assassin, is offered his freedom to help her find the killer. Sarah J. Maas builds a sprawling world of Fae, angels, shifters and werewolves, threading a slow-burning romance through a murder investigation that keeps widening. First in the Crescent City series.
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What is House of Earth and Blood about?
Crescent City runs on old magic and new money, and Bryce Quinlan works its clubs and galleries by day and its parties by night. A demon slaughters her closest friends, and the pursuit of justice pulls her into the city's darker machinery. Hunt Athalar, a Fallen angel bound to serve the Archangels as their assassin, is offered his freedom to help her find the killer. Sarah J. Maas builds a sprawling world of Fae, angels, shifters and werewolves, threading a slow-burning romance through a murder investigation that keeps widening. First in the Crescent City series.
When was House of Earth and Blood published?
House of Earth and Blood was published in 2019.
Who made House of Earth and Blood?
House of Earth and Blood was written by Sarah J. Maas.
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Fans drawn to the city-noir supernatural mix should try Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which threads monster hunting through grief and romance in the same register. For a fantasy world where a slow-burning romance rides alongside high-stakes court politics, the game Dragon Age: Inquisition scratches the same itch. Both keep the danger and the desire turned up together.
Epic fantasy worlds with dragons, shifters and ancient magic to get lost in
Sarah J. Maas spends real pages building Crescent City's layered mix of Fae, angels and shifters before Bryce's murder case even kicks in, and these picks share that same dense world-building. Dragon Age: Inquisition hands you a comparable sprawling map to explore, while Brisingr, Wizard and Glass and Oathbringer stack up the same kind of thick, rule-bound epic-fantasy lore.
Gods, angels and mortals tangled up in each other's wars
Bryce's story pulls angels, Fae and old gods into the same conspiracy, with Hunt Athalar serving as living proof that divine beings answer to someone. Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Lightning Thief put mortal teenagers in the middle of squabbling Olympians, Absolute Wonder Woman gives its heroine actual god blood to carry, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer treats the supernatural chain of command as the real plot engine.
Illustrated fantasy epics where an outsider's power makes them a target
Both Bryce and Hunt carry powers that make them useful to people who would rather own them than free them, and that same trap catches the leads in these picks. Tower of God's Bam, Radiant's Seth and Saga's Hazel are all hunted for what they can do, and Frankenstein's creature remains the original story of a being feared for existing at all.