Sarah Maas ascends her Throne of Glass with new book
Sarah Maas stopped watching Game of Thrones several years ago. The bestselling fantasy author had come to find aspects of the swords and sorcery romp viscerally off-putting. The show’s brutal treatment of its female characters was especially difficult to sit through.
“I haven’t gone back to it yet,” she says, over coffee at Dublin’s Merrion Hotel. “I have some thoughts about the ladies and how things are done or not. I’ve heard the latest season is super empowering — I think I’ll binge on it once the entire thing is finished.” Her distaste for Game of Thrones’ use of sexual violence as plot device is palpable. And yet she and GoT creator George RR Martin have a certain amount in common. Each has written a labyrinthine fantasy saga, with a cast of hundreds and a multitude of interweaving plots.
