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(Rebecca is a ruthless psychopathic killer posing as a romance novelist, one reader joked onReddit.)
Weve buried our friends, she recently toldNPR.
HerStart
The first book Yarros ever wrote was an urban fantasy, but publishers werent interested.
Yarros toldEntertainment Weeklythat she submitted five ideas, including the one that became the Empyrean series.
And she has another, about a soldier and a congressional aide, beingdevelopedas a Netflix movie.
Gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level of hot.
Yarrosexplainedon theProfessional Book Nerdspodcast that she wanted her writing to be as accessible as possible.
My goal is to bring non-fantasy readers into fantasy, she said.
So we made the vernacular more modern and more approachable.
Gayle King suggested that married people should readVariationtogether.
Its so sensual and so steamy without being vulgar.
Fourth Wingsold more than2 million copiesin its first six months.
It has so far spent70+weeks on the New YorkTimesbestseller list, with15of those weeks in the top spot.
More than200 Barnes & Noble storesheld midnight-release parties forIron Flame,which sold out on Amazon in12hours.
In 2024, thetwomost-read bookson GoodreadswereFourth Wing(about1.1 millionreaders) andIron Flame(about977kreaders).
In late 2023, Yarrossharedplans to slow her pace down to prioritize her health.
Some particularly enthusiastic readers call him Xaddy and yes, theresfanmademerchto prove it.
fourth wing isnt even inspired by scotland or its folklore so why is there gaelic in it???
Yarros later toldVarietythat the inclusion of Gaelic was meant to be a love letter to her moms Scottish ancestry.
You know when you read a word and it sounds different in your head?
Thats what happened to me, she said.
I remedied it by finding a Gaelic tutor.
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