I really am just curious if anyone else noticed and was concerned. There are many other similarities in the books (not just ACOTAR but TOG as well) in world building, character, plot arc, and even dialogue from some characters. 'Mother Night' is used in both although it is more significant in Black Jewels and the full quote is 'Mother Night and may the darkness be merciful.'

Sex and 'mating' is part of the romance/worldbuilding in both in almost the exact same way. 'Prick' and its use is basically the exact same way through both series. especially when it comes to gaining/losing her powers. Janelle Angelline herself has a character arc that is mostly the same as Aelin's. The other High Lords all have personalities like some of the characters in Janelle Angelline's court. Tamlin's character is so much like Kartane's (except the rape, but there is some rapey parts to Tamlin's character that it reads as similar). Rhysand is basically a stand in for the Warlord Prince Daemon sa Diablo.Ĭassian is SO CLEARLY Lucivar Yaslana that I can't even hold it in most days.Īmarantha is SO CLEARLY Dorothea saDiablo it makes me cringe.

Magic system - although black jewels is based around stones, there's the same concept of visibly black magicįeeling or descriptions of cold when someone is ULTRA ANGRY - Notably rooms go ice cold and ignorant people who are the cause of the anger don't noticeīoth series have War Lord Princes as a sort of magical rank.īoth series have High Lord as a sort of magical and caste system rank. World building - there's a lot of high level world building (worlds within worlds stuff) Races - wings males who are creepy dominant (I checked and the Black Jewels was published first.)įor instance (i'll start broad and get specific in the details): I'm so bothered I'm wondering why there hasn't been comments about plagiarism between the two series. Has anyone else read the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop and realized that SJMaas books are eerily similar? It's been bothering me ever since I picked up ACOTAR.

The dark jewels trilogy