Everything Sarah J. Maas Has Said About A Court of Splintered Harmony

“It’s just the story that was finally ready to come out of me was big—really, really, really big,” she shared during a March 4 appearance on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast. “And as I started writing this in, like, Montana, like energy vortex, it came out of me in a way that surprised me. I like to do parts—like, part one, part two, part three—by the time I got to the end of part one, it was like 400 pages long.”

Deciding to forgo the “traditional format of a book,” Mass shared the one Middengard Wyrm-sized tale will be told in four parts—the sixth book will cover part one, the seventh will include two and three, and the yet-to-be-written ACOTAR 8 will encompass the fourth and final part.

Maas described the first three parts as “really f–king long”—and Mor doesn’t need to weigh in to show her words ring true. Indeed, A Court of Splintered Harmony is 352 pages in its hardback, while A Court of Forgotten Melody has a length of a whopping 896 pages.

And the overall four-part, three-book spectacle has a name of its own: The Valkyrie Cycle, with each part described as a “movement.” Therefore, the sixth book’s full title is A Court of Splintered Harmony: The Valkyrie Cycle, Movement I.

As for what story ACOTAR 6, specifically, will be telling? Maas has kept mum on who may be finding love next following Feyre and Rhysand’s fated tale and Nesta and Cassian’s spicy romance. 

However, when revealing the book’s title and pink-and-yellow gradient cover on Instagram in August, Maas shared the teaser, “What was broken will be remade.”

The thought-provoking line was later confirmed to be the first of the Splintered Harmony’s full description, which teases that Prythian will face the “insidious threat” of Koschei the Deathless.

“The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked,” the description adds. “But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day.”

With the Night Court also “reeling with recent betrayals and revealed truths,” they “must find a way to repair the splintered harmony all around them” in order to survive.

And unlike the previous full-length novels in the series, Maas and her publisher confirmed ACOSH will feature multiple point of views, similar to A Court of Frost and Starlight, along with Maas’ other series Throne of Glass and Crescent City.

Among the seven POVs who will be featured in A Court of Splintered Harmony are Feyre, Nesta, Lucien, Gwyn and Cassian. 

Additionally, Bloomsbury announced Splintered Harmony will feature all previously published bonus chapters, including Nesta and Cassian’s bonus chapter from A Court of Mist and Fury, along with two Silver Flames bonus chapters: one featuring Feyre and Rhys, and another—a much-debated chapter—from Azriel’s POV.

Speaking of Silver Flames, the last full-length ACOTAR book left us off with an epic conclusion as main protagonist Nesta triumphantly completed the Blood Rite alongside her fellow Valkyries, Gwyn and Emerie, and defeated the evil queen Briallyn.

Then, Nesta, using the Dread Trove—the Mask, the Crown and the Harp—made a bargain with the Cauldron to save a dying Feyre (and by association, Rhys) during childbirth.

While the book ended with Feyre giving birth to a healthy baby Nyx, and Nesta accepting her mating bond with Cassian, the threat of death god Koschei, tension between courts and an impending war are still at play. (To fully get you up to speed, click here for a refresher of the ACOTAR series so far.)

But there’s also the subsequent events in the third Crescent City book, House of Flame and Shadow, that went down before A Court of Splintered Harmony. But without getting into full-on spoiler territory, Maas confirmed her three series—ACOTAR, Crescent City and Throne of Glass—all exist in a multiverse and the worlds overlap.

With that in mind, Maas has more than just ACOTAR 8 and the fourth Crescent City book cooking in the Cauldron.

“There’s one book that I’m going to be writing after this next ACOTAR book that I’m very excited about,” she teased during a Today interview in 2024. “I’m not going to say what world it’s in. I’m not going to say anything. It’s a story that’s been brewing in the back of my mind for a long time. I think it’s going to be a very emotional book for me to write, just in terms of the world I’ll be writing and the characters that might pop up.”

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