This year is the tenth anniversary of Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series. While ACOTAR readers should be in a celebratory mood, instead they’ve taken on the desperate tone of a fandom that was promised Reputation (Taylor’s Version) and got only an overflowing basket of “ Easter eggs .” Tune your social-media algorithm to BookTok or Bookstagram and you’ll find thousands of posts predicting the ACOTAR 6 release date, speculating on whom the next book is about, and complaining about something called A Court of Shaded Truths (which is totally fake ).

The frenzy is understandable. It’s been more than four years since the release of the last ACOTAR book, A Court of Silver Flames , and during that time the series has exploded in popularity. Fans are hungry for

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