The House That ‘ACOTAR’ Built: Inside $4 Million Mansion Sarah J. Maas Bought After Finding Fame With Wildly Popular Fantasy Series

Author Sarah J. Maas has her fandom in a frenzy, as the release of her much-anticipated sixth book in her wildly popular "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series, more commonly known as "ACOTAR," dropped today.Fans across the globe flocked to midnight release parties for “A Court of Splintered Harmony,” with over 900 fans alone in NYC flocking to Barnes and Nobles on Oct. 27, dressed in their finest faerie attire.Maas, 39, who was born in New York City, has debuted three different romantic fantasy—or "romantasy"—franchises, beginning with the "Throne of Glass" series, which she began writing when she was just 16. However, the first book was not officially published until August 2012.She would go on to release eight books about the "Throne of Glass" world, simultaneously beginning work on "ACOTAR," which made its debut in 2015, while her third franchise, "Crescent City," was launched in 2020.The author's books proved to be an instant hit; however, they were turned into cult obsessions by the rise of TikTok's "BookTok" trend in the early 2020s, with Publishers Weekly reporting in June 2022 that Maas' titles had seen an 86% surge in sales between February 2021 and February 2022, helping t...