Gather initial thoughts and broad opinions about the book.

1. Have you read other urban fantasies (such as Jim Butcher’s Storm Front, Holly Black’s Book of Night, or Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House)? Given the wide range of subject matter urban fantasy can cover, how would you describe the type of urban fantasy House of Earth and Blood represents? Which other books in this subgenre does it remind you of, and which are the most sharply different?

2. Some readers feel that the emphasis on worldbuilding in the first section of the book slows its pace, finding that they enjoy the book more once the action begins moving more quickly. Did you have this reaction, or did you enjoy the worldbuilding aspect of the story? What relationship does your answer have to what you find most enjoyable about reading fantasy fiction?

3. House of Earth and Blood is the first book in Sarah J. Maas’s Crescent City series, which takes place in a more contemporary setting than Maas’s earlier series. Have you read the Throne of Glass series, which begins with the novel

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