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The News We've Been Waiting Five Years For: ACOTAR 6 & 7 Are Coming- And They're Bigger Than We Imagined

March 11, 2026 THANH VY VUONG

🌙 Dear fellow Prythian dreamers,

Can we just take a moment?

Sit down. Grab your favourite mug. Put on that playlist you made specifically for rainy days and Rhysand brooding - because the news has finally arrived. On March 4, 2026, Sarah J. Maas appeared on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast and dropped what might be the most anticipated book announcement in the romantasy fandom in years.

ACOTAR 6 is arriving on October 27, 2026.
And ACOTAR 7 follows on January 12, 2027.

We'll give you a second. ...

Okay. Let's talk about this — because there is so much to unpack.

📚 It's Not Two Books. It's One Massive, Beautiful Story.

Here's what makes this announcement even more extraordinary: Sarah didn't just write two separate books. She wrote something so vast, so emotionally complete, that no single volume could contain it.

By the time she reached the end of the first part alone, she was already sitting at 400 pages. So rather than make fans wait an entire year between installments, she made the decision to release both volumes in rapid succession — within just a few short months of each other.

Think of it less as two sequels and more as one enormous, sweeping story delivered in two beautiful parts. The first part lives in ACOTAR 6. Parts two and three live in ACOTAR 7. And yes — she has confirmed there is a fourth part still waiting. Which means an eighth book is quietly sitting on the horizon too.

This series was never going to end quietly.

🕰️ Five Years in Prythian's Silence

For those of us who have been counting the days since A Court of Silver Flames landed in 2021, this wait has felt like a long, slow-burning slow-burn of our own. Sarah spent those years deep in the Crescent City universe, finishing that series' final arc — but all the while, she carried Prythian with her.

She described writing in Montana, and how the story finally broke open - rushing forward as if it had been waiting patiently for exactly the right moment.
That's the thing about stories that matter. They don't rush. They arrive when they're ready. And this one, it seems, arrived as something none of us could have predicted in scale.

💭 The Question on Every Reader's Lips: Whose Story Is This?

Sarah has been delightfully tight-lipped, but the fandom has been anything but quiet. Many readers believe ACOTAR 6 may finally belong to Elain Archeron the quiet, garden-tending middle sister whose story has felt long-promised. Sarah herself once mentioned that while working in her own garden, she found herself slipping effortlessly into Elain's perspective. Everything, she said, began to feel like research.
Then there's the shadow of Azriel, brooding, complicated, carrying a heartache that spans bonus chapters and late-night fan theories. And the unresolved pull of Elain and Lucien's mating bond, still humming like a thread that was pulled but never quite snapped.

Whatever perspective Maas chooses, we already know this: it will carry the same depth, the same ache, and the same swooning complexity that made us fall in love with this world in the first place.
Whether you're planning a full re-read before October or simply want to wear your fandom with a little extra pride while you wait, we're right here beside you in the anticipation.