BySukant Deepak

March 2, 2021 (IANSlife) To celebrate the publication of the sequel in ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ titled ‘A Court of Silver Flames’, author Sarah J. Maas was live in conversation with Deepanjana Pal at the 14th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). The author talked about the roller-coaster ride, of actions and emotions that this series has been.

Mass started writing the first book in the ACOTAR series after she had graduated from college in 2008. That was the time that global recession hit. Being unable to find a job for 18 months, she immersed herself into writing. She remembers, “I poured a lot of my early doubts about the future into A Court of Thorns and Roses. The book was an escape from a rough, uncertain time in my life.”

After writing four bestselling books in the series, over a decade later, Sarah delved into the story of the headstrong Nesta, who was a minor but memorable character in the previous books in the series. She added, “I started writing Nesta's story for fun. It was like fan fiction for my own work.”

But 768 pages later, as moderator and author Deepanjana Pal points out, “Nesta’s story will make a lot of readers feel seen.”

Already a New York Times bestseller within a week of its global release, the author was thrilled that her audiences loved the book as much as she does, "I see the book as a journey of healing and forgiveness. Of self-love and self-discovery. It doesn't have a happy ending but a happy beginning. It was a joy for me to write ’A Court of Silver Flames.’"

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