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Midnight Maas
Inside the after-hours release party where otters, Swifties, and recovering Bookstagrammers celebrated Sarah J. Maas’s House of Flame and Shadow.
We’re here to count down to the midnight release of House of Flame and Shadow, book three of the massively popular “Crescent City” series, in which humans coexist alongside magical creatures and otters deliver the mail. Maas’s appearance tonight is a surprise, and she swoops in and out with the air of a bona fide celebrity — or of J.K. Rowling circa 2007, when midnight Harry Potter book releases were a definite thing. To kill the hours before everyone will be given a copy of the book and ushered out — no late-night binge-reading in the B&N aisles allowed — there’s a fan-theories table, a cardboard photo-op standee with a couple of balloons tied to it, and temporary-tattoo and origami stations.
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