ACOTAR 6 & 7 Titles + Covers Are Here | Everything you Need to Know

Written By Olivia Creates

WE HAVE TITLES. WE HAVE COVERS. WE HAVE THE VALKYRIE?!

Sarah J. Maas has officially revealed the titles and covers for the next two ACOTAR books, and naturally, we needed an emergency meeting.

ACOTAR 6: A Court of Splintered Harmony
The Valkyrie Cycle: Movement I
“What was broken will be remade.”

ACOTAR 7: A Court of Forgotten Melody
The Valkyrie Cycle: Movements II & III
“What was lost will be reclaimed.”

Between the Valkyrie Cycle reveal, Koschei's confirmation as our big bad, some VERY suspicious cover imagery, and blurbs that seem to be pointing directly back to House of Flame and Shadow, we have a lot to discuss.

Spoiler warning: This episode contains spoilers for the entire Maasverse, including ACOTAR, Crescent City, and Throne of Glass.

In This Episode

The Valkyrie Cycle

We have officially entered The Valkyrie Cycle, which means Nesta, Gwyn, Emerie, and the Valkyries are no longer just a theory.

We break down what the word “cycle” could mean, why SJM may be using a musical structure for these books, and the very interesting connections between the Valkyries and Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Plus: Gwyn sings. Azriel is literally a Shadowsinger. And the books are called Splintered Harmony and Forgotten Melody. We're paying attention.

The A Court of Splintered Harmony Cover

There is A LOT happening here.

We get into:

  • The four bones and their connection to scrying

  • Whether the characters could be searching for Narben

  • The mysterious three eyes

  • Possible Bryaxis imagery

  • Autumn Court connections

  • Dragons across ACOTAR, Crescent City, and Throne of Glass

  • Fire wielders throughout the Maasverse

  • Whether the bones could also point to the Bone Carver

And yes, we are absolutely talking about those ancient dragons supposedly sleeping in mountain caves.

The A Court of Forgotten Melody Cover

And then Sarah put a SPIDER on the second cover.

We trace the spider and weaving imagery through the Maasverse, including:

  • Stygian spiders

  • Stryga, aka the Weaver

  • The mysterious tapestry weaver from A Court of Frost and Starlight

  • The Void and Hope threads

  • Vesperus

  • Spidersilk

  • The Valkyrie ribbon

  • The eight-pointed star

  • The Dusk Court

  • World-walking

The combination of a spider, thread, an eight-pointed star, and the phrase “What was lost will be reclaimed” has us looking VERY closely at the lost Dusk Court.

Are the Covers Giving Us the Death Gods?

One of our biggest questions: could the covers be intentionally invoking Koschei's siblings?

Cover One: Bones → The Bone Carver
Cover Two: Spider + weaving → Stryga/The Weaver
The confirmed villain: Koschei

With Koschei officially at the center of the next books, we are putting a very large pin in this one.

Breaking Down the New ACOTAR Blurbs

The blurbs gave us WAY more information than we expected.

“What was broken will be remade.”

What exactly is broken?

The Cauldron? The Valkyries? Prythian's alliances? The Night Court itself?

We know Prythian is still fractured after the war with Hybern, but House of Flame and Shadow also revealed that the Cauldron was corrupted by the Asteri. We're keeping the possibility of the Cauldron being truly remade firmly on the theory board.

We also finally have confirmation that Koschei the Deathless is our big bad, and he's gathering powerful allies who want to reclaim the human lands.

But one line REALLY caught our attention:

“Those who rule and protect the Night Court are reeling from recent betrayals and revealed truths.”

WHAT BETRAYALS? WHAT TRUTHS?

Because HOFAS just revealed quite a few things about Theia, Silene, the Dusk Court, the Starborn, the Asteri, and Prythian's true history.

“What was lost will be reclaimed.”

Our immediate thought: THE DUSK COURT.

Its people, history, power, and legacy have essentially been erased from Prythian, and now Sarah has put an eight-pointed star directly on the cover of the book promising that something lost will be reclaimed.

Coincidence? We think not.

The second blurb also tells us:

Bonds will be tested. Power will shift. Old enemies will emerge from nightmares of the past.

We're talking about what those bonds could be, how the balance of power in Prythian might change, whether the Dusk Court could return, and exactly who those old enemies might be.

Is the Full Maasverse Crossover Coming?

We have officially reached the part where the red string comes out.

ACOTAR and Crescent City have already crossed over. But now we're looking at:

  • Stygian spiders

  • Eight-pointed stars

  • World-walking

  • Fire

  • Weaving and thread imagery

  • Possible Valg connections

  • Death Gods

  • The Dusk Court

  • A potentially broken Cauldron

  • A lost Court waiting to be reclaimed

So…is Throne of Glass next?

We break down what a TOG crossover could actually look like, from shared mythology and ancient history all the way up to characters physically crossing between worlds.

Aelin? Manon? Dorian?

At this point, we're not ruling anything out.

And Then There's Sarah's Instagram

Before the reveal, Sarah wiped almost her entire Instagram but left a few VERY specific things behind.

Now that we have the covers and titles, those choices look even more suspicious.

We're talking about:

  • Why she kept the House of Flame and Shadow reel

  • Whether Crescent City is becoming required reading for ACOTAR

  • Her Call Her Daddy interview and the Bryaxis mention

  • The ACOTAR cover reveal highlight

  • And the old book tour highlight she mysteriously left untouched

Sarah…are we getting an ACOTAR book tour?!

Our Current Theory Board

Where we're landing after this emergency meeting:

  • The Cauldron may be part of what is “broken” and needs to be remade.

  • The Dusk Court is our frontrunner for what was “lost” and will be reclaimed.

  • The four bones likely point toward scrying, potentially for something lost like Narben.

  • The spider and thread imagery has major connections to Stryga, Stygian spiders, and the Void + Hope tapestry.

  • The covers may be invoking the Bone Carver and Stryga while their brother Koschei takes center stage.

  • The Valkyries are going to be incredibly important.

  • The events of House of Flame and Shadow appear increasingly important to the next ACOTAR books.

  • And we are absolutely NOT taking a larger Throne of Glass/Maasverse crossover off the table.

Now we need to know: What was the FIRST thing you noticed on these covers? And what theory has you completely spiraling?

Olivia Creates