House of Sky and Breath

13.10.2021
Praise for the cover! But...no praise for the the announcement or kind of marketing with which the book cover was announced: “now with 500% more sex”.

Wait.

I am no erotica reader. I am a fantasy reader and I expect to have a solid plot, deep world-building and character development. Then, if the chemistry between two characters is good, sex can also be present, but that HAS TO BE second to the rest.

So I don't know what to expect, but I did not like that announcement at all.

It gives out the idea that sex is going to sell more books and considering that most of Sarah Maas' readers are female, I wonder if it is true that you are incentivized to buy certain books if there is a lot of romance and sex involved. I cannot believe that. With all the global sensibilization about women's rights, sexual harassment, emancipation, and so on, I cannot believe that Maas' readers are gonna fall for that.

Dear author and publisher, please, if you want to sell books where the main focus is sex, that's fine but AT LEAST label them as ‘erotica with fantasy elements' and not as adult fantasy, because fantasy should be respected as a genre and we readers should be made aware of what we are buying.