House of Earth and Blood

Name: House of Earth and Blood
Author: Sarah J. Maas

Amazon Bestseller · #8 in Paranormal Romance

Sarah J. Maas

Book 1 in the Crescent City series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

Crescent City, book one: urban fantasy meets romantasy in a world where multiple species coexist under an authority that doesn't protect everyone. Maas writes the grief before the romance — the loss is structural, the investigation is the plot, and the love story forms in the aftermath of something that can't be undone.

At a glance

House of Earth and Blood is book 1 in Sarah J. Maas’s Crescent City series. It rates 3/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness, mid-range for dark romantasy: of the 648 dark romantasy books we rate, 34% score lower for darkness and 8% lower for spice. Tropes: found family, slow burn and enemies to lovers. It is about as dark as Sarah J. Maas’s other books on Readark (average darkness 3.7/5). It runs to 805 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Tropes

Enemies to Lovers Found Family Slow Burn

Book details

Pages: 805
Published: January 2020

House of Earth and Blood spice level

House of Earth and Blood is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate