House of Flame and Shadow
core novel 2024 Crescent City
Record
| First published | 2024 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.26 (814,460 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| Page count | 835 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781635574104 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
House of Flame and Shadow is the third book in Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City series. After discovering that realms beyond her home world of Midgard exist, Bryce Quinlan finds herself stranded in one of these unfamiliar worlds, cut off from the family, friends, and partner she left behind, and unsure who around her can be trusted as she searches for a way home. At the same time, Hunt Athalar has been recaptured by the ruling Asteri and imprisoned in their dungeons, stripped of his freedom and left desperate to help Bryce despite being powerless to reach her. With the two of them separated across different worlds and each facing their own dangers, Bryce ultimately seeks out an alliance with the Night Court, hoping that combining her resourcefulness with new allies from beyond Midgard can offer some way to defend her world against the Asteri's growing threat.
Where it sits
- Universe: Crescent City
- Series: Crescent City core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Sarah J. Maas
Awards (verified)
- Readers' Choice Award (Best Romantasy), 2024: won; 2024 was the first year of the new 'Romantasy' category (split out of Best Fantasy); House of Flame and Shadow won that category, not Best Fantasy (which went to Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune) -- confirmed via independent reporting of the award body's own results.
Notes
- From the series record (Crescent City): A 4th volume has been confirmed by the author as planned, with no title or release date announced as of 2026-08-07 -- isn't counted here yet.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Crescent City: position 3 of 3: previous House of Sky and Breath (2022)
Sources
- Wikipedia -- Crescent City (novel series)
- https://crescentcity.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_Flame_and_Shadow
- https://sarahjmaas.com/books/house-of-flame-and-shadow/
- Locus -- 2024 Readers' Choice Award Winners
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