Meredith Monday Schwartz

I'm Meredith Munday-Schwartz.

I'm both a mom and a Mimi and a full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas.

And I have once again been sucked into Sarah J. Mass's universe.

So now, Katie, you can figure out why I had like four different versions of my Bite Size intro, and I was like, each one was less appropriate than the one before, so then I just had a straightforward one.

All right.

Well, this week, actually riffing a little bit probably off of what yours is going to be.

I had the pleasure of going on a trip to California this week.

And as I did that, I had the equal pleasure of having three and a half hours to read on a flight uninterrupted.

And-

I had Crescent City right with me.

The House of Earth and Blood.

It's the first in the Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas.

I'm doing this read-along that is being hosted by Holly's Literary Magic on Instagram.

One of my good bookish friends, she's been telling me forever that we needed to read this series and...

Of course, in advance of the new ACOTAR books coming out in October and in January, we wanted to get this series read between now and then because Holly's been telling me, Meredith, I think there are some places where the two universes of Crescent City and ACOTAR

meet up and wouldn't it be so cool?

And I will tell you, Crescent City, so Agatar, obviously everybody knows, it's got a very heavy fairy tale vibes.

That's a happy place for me in my fantasy reading, especially.

Crescent City is more urban fantasy.

I wasn't sure if I was going to like it because, you know, I've tried Throne of Glass.