Speaking about her new novels, she said “it came out of me in a way that surprised me”, and that there would essentially be four parts being told across three books – ACOTAR 6, ACOTAR 7 and then in a fourth, unannounced book.
“It’s meant to be read ideally as one massive, massive story as opposed to like in a trilogy,” Maas explained.
“It’s not a trilogy. Arcs aren’t wrapped up. It’s like in the way you take my book, it’s like if you expand it all of part one, all of part two, all parts, it would be huge like that.
“And so I just decided, I’ve never told a story that way. This is how it wants to come out,” she also added.
She hasn’t released a book since 2021, which is her longest gap between novels, so this is an unusual move to publish two within months of each other.
Maas is also the author of the Throne of Glass series, which has eight books, and the Crescent City series – which has three books.
Maas released her first book in 2015, but interest in her writing grew massively over the pandemic.