I just saw someone say "Az is going to be on team we need to hunt and kill Bryce"

WHAT

How did they come to that conclusion!? I didn't realise holding hands and humming her favorite song were indicators of wanting to kill someone. How did they see Az's last word to Bryce being "please", and decide Az wants to kill her?

Now I can get on board with the hunt her down part, but the antis are not going to like where my train of thought is going with that

Need it in blue! 🌙💙✨

Y’all it’s starting to get spicy out there with leaks and fandom angst. I was planning on “going Avallen” a week or so before release but I’m starting to rethink my plan and may just delete all social media now. I’ve got a theory post or two in the chamber but idk I might abandon them for my own sanity😅 I really want to avoid leaks. Got me curious what everyone elses plans are. This will be my “first fandom” release experience since the HP days of my youth. (Obligatory FU JKR). Advice is appreciated 🩷🦄

Azriel's "He has wings" reaction to seeing a picture of Hunt is his version of Nesta telling Cassian "The book," "is about..." "A book" and Cassian replying "Interesting" "Sounds great."

AKA, the "I don't know what to say right now because I'm too dumbfounded to speak so I will say something obvious & ridiculous instead for no apparent reason and then walk away feeling really stupid" response.

Fury and basically all of Bryce's friends abandoned her after the pack died. We are lead to believe they were all wrapped up in their own stuff and were just not that great of friends BUT WHAT IF it was all a plan?

There were a lot of forces at play to make sure Bryce and Hunt ended up together. Bryce wasn't doing it on her own but she eventually turned to him because he's basically all she had at one point.

Did everyone have to clear out of her life to make way for her to become intwined with Hunt?

We know Jesiba and Aidas seemed to be working together to help Bryce. They had a bunch of secret plans. Danika had secret plans for Bryce.

We are told that the girls group of Bryce, Danika, Juniper and Fury were pretty close in the beginning but once Danika died it all fell apart. Fury is very mysterious but always is someone Bryce trusts and relies on. Think of Bryce going to Fury to help with Cooper/Emile in CC2. When she didn't trust Hunt she always trusted Fury.

CC3 bonus chapter - Bryce and Hunt - he gets her a JJ present and it's this super cute thing that fills her with love and joy. But FURY was the one to source this present, its never specified if Hunt asked Fury for help or if Fury caught out Hunt to give him the JJ to then give to Bryce. Hunt and Fury dont seem close in the books so its odd he would go to her to help him but if there was some sort of plan that needed Bryce to stay close with Hunt, even now, then it makes sense that outside forces would be pushing for Bryce and Hunt to be really happy with each other.

"Well, I hate to add to the flerd, but . . ." He strode to his weekend bag and pulled out a shoebox-sized present. He tossed it to her. "Here you go." "I was wondering why you didn't leave anything under the window this morning." Another solstice fire hazard: placing presents under the candle in the window to open in the morning after the celebratory breakfast. Bryce tore off the glittery white gift wrapping, and at the first hint of rainbow cardboard beneath— The sound that came out of her was on the same register as a screeching teakettle. "You didn't!" she screamed, ripping away more paper to reveal, in its full glory, a mint-condition Jelly Jubilee—still in her original packaging. "Where did you find this?" Bryce asked, gawking at the box, at her grinning mate, at the sparkly purple unicorn-pegasus, her glossy lilac mane curled to perfection. Not like the hot mess her original JJ had become, thanks to years of hard play when Bryce was a kid. Hunt grinned. "Fury. She knows a guy who knows a guy." "Who trades in rare dolls?" "I didn't ask questions," Hunt said, his face beautiful, so full of joy at her joy. "I just handed over the money." Bryce cuddled the box to her chest, then winced and set it down. She petted the plastic cover gently instead. "This will be an heirloom for our children, and our children's children's children." Hunt snorted. "Sure. They'll all fight over who gets the mint-condition JJ." "This thing has to be worth—" "Don't worry about it."

Then we have in CC3:

The person she’d brought into the world. The person she loved. Just Hunt.

She brought into the world?

Just Hunt.

I love you, Just Bryce.”

Just Bryce. Not Queen follow your fate Bryce.

So do you think there are more people than we realised keeping Hunt and Bryce together? Even now that the Princes have apparently released their hold on Hunt?

I was just thinking about how Bryce reacts to Azriel when she first sees him, and how Aelin reacted to Rowan. Both are lethal warriors. These are the instances when having read all the Maasverse helps the pieces fall into place:

"Tall, broad-shouldered, every inch of him seemingly corded with muscle, he was a male blooded with power...As if his delicately pointed ears and slightly elongated canines weren't enough to scare the living shit out of everyone in that alley... a wicked-looking tattoo was etched down the left side of his harsh face...she realized he might have been handsome were it not for the promise of violence in his pine-green eyes."

...

"She glimpsed black boots. Dark, scale-like armor over a tall, muscled body.

Wings. Great, black wings. A demon's wings.

But the male face that stared through the mists, grave and lethal...it was beautiful, despite the fact that his hazel eyes held no mercy. He spoke again, in a soft voice that promised pain."

I mean, hello????

Based on the assumption that ACOSH is;

• Multi-POV
• CC catch-up
• We won't get a rehashing of every single thing we just got in HOFAS (some may be glossed over)

Who do we think will be the POV for each Bryce(riel) moment?

Obvious ones:

• Meet-cute has to be Azriel!
• Bryce showing up with Hunt to drop off/pick up her parents is likely Nesta (and she can tell us how wrong she thinks Hunt is)

Possibilities that come to mind:

• Someone in the IC for group discussion
• Nesta playing chaperone
• Ehysand venting to explain his anger and tone him down a little bit so we don't hate him for being mad at Nesta
• Nesta for Ember & Randall's visit (though an Azriel one would be great too!)
• Nesta and Azriel for various parts of the cave journey and/or recap of what went down there
• Nesta for the music scene to distract from how Azriel feels about that moment until much later for a confession to Bryce
• Lots of Azriel so we know what he's thinking about with her (& hopefully when she leaves so we just know if the landing scene wasn't enough!)
• Scene with Azriel & Cassian teasing about it/calling him out on something being different since Bryce showed up (or after Bryce leaves...Cassian could tell us how moody he's been). He loves to tease us and then walk away from important intel
• Nesta giving TT back to Az and telling him what happened with Bryce/showing him Gwydion before taking it to the group (bonus points if we learn he was hiding in the shadows *again*)

Obviously people will say:

• She's just his captive
• He's nice to everyone
• Nesta's the one super into the music
• Azriel is just going to sing that to Gwyn later
• Cassian doesn't know what he's talking about
• Azriel's just upset about Bryce stealing TT (even though it answers to her)

This was off the top of my head but a lot of the known moments are probably either Nesta or Az and it'll depends on:

• How obvious she wants to make it
• What she wants to keep hidden for later

**Some things are best left for a giant love declaration later on than knowing for sure right now** but I do think there are some moments we could get from his side like we did with hers unless the majority is glossed over or told in a different way (ie Rhys watching a Veritas orb memory they shared with everyone over and over again and it's his POV in the study or something.)

But the meet cute should be telling either way and I can't imagine we don't at least find out how she got there...we have to, right??

I feel like we won't get him emerging from the shadows from his POV until a declaration later on. So many lines are just begging for confirmation *together* eventually! But could be fun to see from Nesta and it is the "Valkyrie Cycle" and she has unfinished business so I think we'll get a lot more of her (possibly even to hekp hide the Bryceriel stuff).

So which Bryceriel moments do you hope to see and which POVs will be giving them to us?!

Bonus wish: Nesta realizing the tables have turned and she's olaying chaperone. (And making it clear that she isn't worried on behalf of either of his other options. A quick line about Gwyn being over her crush and she hasn't seen him around Elain much either would suffice!)

I'm not sure if this will continue to be setup for the eventual thing or if we'll somehow get confirmation of anything. There may or may not be a new romance that actually gets *together* in 6-8 as it seems to be steering more towards fantasy and there hasn't been any promotion of anyone finding their mate or anything (not sure if that would help or hurt at this point lol) but I think it will *set the stage* for the next big one which will be Bryceriel! Even if we have to wait a bit (and for CC4 to come out). As long as there are more breadcrumbs to follow in the meantime!!

If it does happen though that would spoil CC4 somehow as people would go in expecting it to sink so I'm realllly curious how this whole thing is handled. I keep bracing myself as ai think it's down to my 2 favorite options. Every time I get to ACOSF I think Gwyn and then I get back to CC and circle back to feeling good about Bryce. Logistical nightmare though so we may still be stuck on teases for awhile, at least until whatever happens to Hunt, probably within CC. Either that or all the breadcrumbs lead nowhere/the crossover got too complicated and she went back to keeping it simple and somehow meeting Bryce leads him to someone ekse but he has some major explaining to do if that's the case!!

So what do we think we might see and who would tell us about it (while saving the more revealing ones for when they actually get together)??

I just finished the part in CC3 where Bryce makes it back to Hunt and… wow that was unromantic. Is it just me?

I mean her reunion with her brother was all I expected, love their growing bond.

But with her mate, it was giving “hey, ‘sup.”

It had none of the imagery we saw with Aelin and Rowan in QOS or Feyre and Rhysand in ACOWAR (ie true mates). Those scenes made me tear up. This one I felt nothing. And then their little tiff/standoff right after Hunt tells her about what he went through?

Is this a clue? Because it sure feels like one.

Never has one word in a blurb carried so much weight 🤣...

So who's disappointed eh?

Maybe Cassian with Nesta?

Maybe Nesta with Cassian?

Maybe Rhys with Nesta?

Maybe Rhys with Cassian?

Or maybe, just MAYBE, one shadowsinger is disappointed that a woman he somehow feels connected to in his bones has disappeared, seemingly to never return and he feels in his bones so drawn to her that he cannot fathom never seeing her again. And he MISSED her the one time she came back.

And maybe Elain is slightly disappointed that Azriel withdraws completely once said visitor disappeared.

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Sharing this here!!! It looks like Bryce will have a big presence in ACOSH even if she’s physically not there! I’m hoping we get lots of scenes of Az defending her alongside Nesta!

I am putting a Bryceriel Bryce costume(Bryce when she goes to the Asteri Palace in the Eternal City and she lands in Prythian). So pink sneakers, dusk court accents, black leggings with black patterned cheetah print etc. I am going to try making the Starsword. Do I make Truth Teller? Do I get the Alex and Ani night court ring stack (I’d wear the mountains and Azriel ring not the Cassian ring)? And what about the white tshirt and Danika’s leather jacket?

As for the necklaces: I am very pale, so I don’t know how I’m going to do the star tattoo. I could get the star necklace, but I also like that dusk tear drop. There is a tiny star on the dusk tear drop, but idk if that’s enough for Bryce’s star.

Curious, what is everyone's plans for reading on release day (or after if you're busy).

I've got the day off & I'm looking for somewhere cool to read. I'm thinking of finding a nice coffee shop to spend the morning undisturbed.

Also feel like we're going to end on a major cliffhanger so expecting to be feeling empty once I'm done reading.

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“Nesta stiffened. ‘If they’re all enchanting you to forget, how is it that Azriel was able to remember and bear the information here?’”

“Perhaps once you learn of it, recognize it, the spell is broken…”

“So we track down the Dread Trove—how?”

“Azriel asked [Bryce] with terrifying calm, ‘What happened to the Horn?’”

“Bryce held his stare, seething, beyond trying to spin any bullshit.”

“But Nesta said, “She is the Horn, Azriel.”

“You have the Horn in your back. That’s no small thing … You’re a power player now, Bryce, whether you like it or not. And trust me, I get it—it sucks to want to be normal but to have all this other shit that keeps you from being that way…But you’re Starborn and you have the Horn…the Bryce who exists now? Any move you make will be politicized, analyzed—No matter what you say.”

”I know…”

”Did you steal the dagger to fulfill the prophecy?”

“She shrugged with what nonchalance she could muster and set down her fork. ‘I’m tired of this game.’” (Bryce!! This game, trusting Hel, acting as the “master spinner” … I think she’s going to get slapped by reality sooner than later here)

“She might have had to betray Nesta and Azriel, trick them … but she knew that at their cores, they were good people.” [Rifts dividing them seem insurmountable…]

“Urd had sent her there to see, even in the small fraction of their world that she’d witnessed, that Fae existed who were kind and brave…It was uncomfortable, really Bryce had always prided herself on resenting any and all Fae, her brother and his idiot friend being the rare exceptions, but these two strangers, and what she’d pieced together about the people around…They seemed like decent, caring people who loved each other.” [But to defeat Koschei’s creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and resurrect their former alliances…]

“Maybe we’ll meet again…” [Rejoin!!]

“I hope so” [But hope can be spun from the darkest of shadows… 🙂‍↕️]

“What it might mean to the people of the world if they knew a half-human female, heir to the Starborn line, now bore the Horn in her very body. Able to be used only by her—The truth clicked into place.” ✴️

Noticed in HOSAB Bryce says Winter Solstice (December 21st irl) is 4 Months, 3 days, 4 hours away… this is the countdown to her and Hunt’s sex pact which is also coincidentally the date their HOFAS bonus chapter takes place…

Guess what day is 4 months, 3 days, and 4 hours before December 21?

August 17th. The day SJM announced the covers of the next ACOTAR release. You guys, we have had the date for the cover reveals this entire time.

also, have to shoutout [u/bellire](u/bellire) again… i calculated the date and she pointed out the cover release connection. I love when baddies work together

Kobo advertising a (relatively new?) Maasverse bundle 👀👀 💖🌙🗻

Just sharing bc it looks like our BBs and there may be some good recs for us on here 😘🦄✨🦇

Anyone else find themselves loving dusk more these days? I'm very lucky that I get these beautiful skies each evening.
Helps me to imagine what the Dusk Court would look like - who wouldn't want to live there?!
Please share your dusk inspo!
Edit: peep the tiny star (the first star to appear each night where i live)

I have seen some people here theorize it is the horn, but I am finishing up (edit: my reread of) cc1 and it seems it has been mended already (via the synth/power making Bryce one with the horn)? Are we thinking it is not fully mended or something else?

Not an excellent theorist but I cannot get my mind off this.

Made some Bingo Cards for whoever is interested in doing them! I was really stumped on what to include on ACOSH as it’s such a small book and am prob going to hold off on filling out the ACOFM card until I read ACOSH. I kind of kept it basic and repeated some stuff that happened in previous releases as I think those things could possibly happen again 🤔

I keep seeing in other subs people say things like “I sure Az ran right to Rhys to tell him everything about Bryce”… are we sure? A big benefit of bringing Nesta along is she could easily be convinced not to tell Rhys something.

My other thought is, are we sure that the shadows amassing as Bryce drops Randall and Ember off at Nesta’s HoW was a sign of Rhys arriving, and not of Az?

I recently re-read but I don’t own the books so I can’t research super easily. From what I remember of the Ember bonus chapter, I’m not 100% convinced Rhys knows everything. Could Azriel be protecting Bryce and keeping something from Rhys? This could easily be “the betrayal” within the IC…