#MU reads ACoTaR

[stromuprisahat]

Feyre’s lovely family, pt. 6

ACoMaF- Chapter 24- When your family sucks, so do family dinners.

Feyre just discovered a new, negative after-effect of her rebirth. Unfortunetelly for her, Nesta notices, only to use it to pick on her.

Perhaps instead of bankrolling her drinking, the Night Court should provide some human food for Nesta after her transformation... I wonder if she's too good for it now.

Poster toxic household. When you can't even breathe without being mocked, you should fucking run ASAP. Or kick out those, who make it so.

I have to admire Rhysand for his self-restraint, because if someone talked this way to my loved one, and sneered on my land, I'd stab them with a fork. Preferebly dull one.

Cassian interferes.

... because when someone calls you out on your shitty behaviour, the most mature course of action is to ignore them. Self-reflection who?!

We were scared... that's why we prevented her from getting education and did absolutely nothing to improve our financial situation…

We had received no training, so we couldn't even try... growing food, giving lessons, sewing and mending for money… it simply never occured to us…

That's it?! Everything forgotten?! For fuck's sake, Feyre, have some self-respect!

Why is it always:

Nesta: *contrary, cruel, generally horrible*

Elain: *can't see evil, can't hear evil*

Feyre: *bending over backwards for them*

Oh, wow! They can do ~that~?!

pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3, pt. 4, pt. 5

#ACoTaR #ACoMaF Chapter 24 #Feyre Archeron #Elain Archeron #Nesta Archeron #Feyre's family #Abusing Feyre #MU reads ACoTaR #A Court of Mist and Fury #V #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas #anti Elain #anti Nesta

[heatsu]

I'm getting back into reading and I've just finished the Powder Mages trilogy

I'm uh I'll never recover

#it was such a pleasant read #borbador is my babygirl #ill try to finish The faithful and the fallen saga now #i finished reading the first book in uh 2022 but i wasn't interested in reading the rest at rhat time #but i have all parts because i found a good deal online so #then ill read crime and punishment for my polish lessons #and after that #i promised mu friend ill read sarah j Maas's acotar #..... #ive never thought this moment would come #but well

[wander-wren]

today i am angry because lightlark keeps (kept? i think it’s dead) getting compared to the hunger games

i don’t know if tumblr saw the lightlark drama and i’m not interested in rehashing it especially bc some of it got uncomfortably personal towards the author at one point and also it was months ago so just! suffice it to say lightlark is a book by alex aster, it is a terrible book, and i did not put myself through the torture of reading it but i did watch a 7.5 hour video essay

(i think the essay could have been 6 or even 5 hours, and i think this person went a little too hard on the critique at some points, so that rubbed me wrong a little but it was also extremely thorough and i was bored.)

but anyway. one of the big things about lightlark is that it was marketed as “hunger games x acotar” which is….fine. but every time someone compares a book to thg i’m automatically suspicious because no one does it right.

and of course, neither did lightlark.

the book is a complete disaster so i will try to stick only to the relevant points but seriously. there’s so much.

the official premise of lightlark is that six realms in a fantasy world have been cursed for hundreds of years. each curse is (supposed to be) a twisted version of the realms magic, and the curses also cut them off from their main island of lightlark. except for once every century, when the island becomes accessible for 100 days and the six rulers travel there to try to break the curses via death tournament.

but then you get to the book and learn that the curses are only broken if a ruler dies without an heir, since their special ruler magic just transfers to the heir and no one gets anywhere. this was only a caveat so we could have a young protagonist ruler, i’m sure. ALSO, IMPORTANTLY, if a ruler dies without an heir, their entire realm also dies.

and obviously that’s bad so the rulers have to consider carefully who they want to kill, and they keep putting the killing off bc it’s not easy to condemn thousands of people to death.

so why, pray tell, the FUCK, are you doing a death tournament every century.

(they’re not, by the way. the first 50 days are dedicated to some demonstrations that are definitely hunger games inspired and meant to allow the rulers to forge alliances bc even though there’s only six of them they’re also required to partner up for some reason?? but there’s almost no fighting and almost all the fight scenes end very quickly with no real damage to the main character. it got really annoying really fast.)

but like, let’s pretend for half a second that lightlark IS about six rulers fighting to the death to break a curse. it’s still not even close to being like the hunger games.

the hunger games was about teenagers under constant surveillance forced to perform and then kill for the masses, many because they weren’t rich enough to buy their way out or into good training.

no one except the rulers and the essential staff is even allowed on lightlark, and no i don’t know why that is. and the characters spend the entire book trying to avoid killing each other as much as possible (well, minus two cases) bc they want to find another way to break the curses. i don’t understand why it’s billed as this big bloody dangerous battle even in-universe when everyone involved really REALLY doesn’t want to fight.

also, this isn’t related to the thg nonsense, but if i’m talking about lightlark i have to talk about That Twist. alex aster really loves her twists and is very proud that no one can see them coming but that’s because reading the twists is like watching the street for cars, then trying to cross and getting hit by an airplane.

as i said, the characters keep trying to find a new way to break the curse, even though it’s been 500 years and many of the rulers have been alive that long (no i don’t know if that’s normal or a ruler perk, it’s not explained) so they SHOULD have tried all of these fairly obvious methods by now but SURE, JAN. this book would make so much more sense if it was only the first century and everyone was still scrambling to figure the curses out. but whatever. alex aster wanted her protagonist to be in a love triangle with two 500yo men

(there’s nothing inherently wrong with that and i actually really loved grim, not for the reasons i was supposed to bc the writing was bad, but i liked him, until—well, put a pin in that.)

ANYWAY. THE POINT. our protagonist, who i guess i should say is named isla, needs to find “the heart of lightlark” which “blooms where darkness meets light.” everyone assumes they’re looking for a super special flower but they can’t find it. then, isla decides this random-ass bird that’s only almost gotten her killed twice is DEFINITELY going to show them the heart, so they follow the bird.

and at dawn, the bird lays a fucking egg. and it falls out of the nest. and cracks. and the yolk. floats. into the air. in time with the rising sun.

I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH HOW MUCH IT IS A LITERAL FUCKING EGG

no foreshadowing. isla has an internal monologue where she thinks she always did see the moon as an eggshell and the sun as yolky, but the yolky sun description happens twice in 400+ pages and the egg moon description happens Never, so like. shoutout to aster’s copy editor??

i can’t take this book seriously bc it is a literal egg an EGG isla has to carry an EGG YOLK to break the curses. there are scenarios where i could accept that but this Serious YA Fantasy Book is not one of them.

and since i mentioned the one thing i did actually like, i will explain isla’s one love interest, grim. technically her only love interest bc nothing about the other guy struck me as romantic but idk maybe her inner monologue was yearning or smthn. anyway, grim.

grim is from the least trusted/most stigmatized realm. he’s described as a huge hulking nightmare of a man, a demon, every badscary description under the sun. but like. the times he is alone with isla? he takes her to a chocolate shop during their first meeting and hand feeds her truffles, which is a little weird and overly sexual but…still. chocolate. then he hides her from another ruler no questions asked even though he has every right to be suspicious. he opens up to her and shit. he calls her “hearteater” (it’s a reference to her curse, her people eat human hearts to survive, no that doesn’t make sense either) (also isla is magically not cursed so our protagonist doesn’t have to be scary and gross and worry about that during the novel haha!) (guess what else is never properly explained….)

anyway grim calls her “hearteater” but like, almost in a teasing/endearing way, which is fun, and when they start to fall in love he just calls her “heart” which is ALSO cute imo i’m weak for nicknames. he’s like. the narration and aster really really want me to think he’s the scary bad boy but he’s just such a soft dude.

and then. ohhhh, and then. one of the other hit-by-airplane twists is that the weird sexy dreams isla has been having all book about grim? they’re not dreams. they’re memories. the two of them used to be together for about a year before the book started, and grim erased her memories as part of a plot to betray her yada yada i was braindead by this point so i don’t fully remember all 17 elements of the betrayal. but like…..first of all that retroactively makes all of their interactions but especially the chocolate thing kind of weird and creepy? also WHAT was the FUCKING POINT pf making her forget she loves you if you’re literally just going to seduce her immediately anyway. like. the book makes a halfhearted effort at having grim avoid her but it really didn’t feel like he was purposely being mean to push her away. because every time they did interact he was so sweet! sir!!

anyway he betrayed isla probably mostly to keep up the ambiguity of the love triangle and so aster could brag about more twists and i hate that bc WHY. he was doing so well.

anyway. i got so far off track. lightlark is a wild fucking ride and i did not even scratch the surface of the plot-hole filled mess that this book is. my sister does own it and i did check a few things bc i straight up could not believe they were real (like the egg. i cannot get over the egg.) so.

also this book only got published bc it went viral on booktok so that kind of tells you everything you need to know. the good news is it does give me some measure of hope/an ego boost bc if lightlark exists in the world…..surely whatever i’m doing can’t be too bad.

#wren wrambles #lightlark #anti lightlark #thats a tag?? #DOES tumblr have a lightlark community?? #im so late to all of the discourse #booktok #booktok cringe #every time i watch a video essay i need everyone to listen to me restate the video essay in my own worse words #thank you

[peternautico]

Las terminadas en 1! Un besote!!

Hola @lorraineblack90, guapísima!

Aquí van las respuestas:

1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?

Alguna vez me ha pasado por la cabeza la tipica idea de “¿y si soy la unica persona real y el resto del mundo son robots/una simulación para poder estudiar mis reacciones antes las cosas, pero por suerte han sido momentos puntuales y muy cortitos

11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?

Buffff, pues le he tenido que dar varias vueltas, y estaba a punto de decir cuando era un enano, sin resposabilidades, pero la verdad es que la mejor edad es ahora. Estoy aprendiendo mucho de mi mismo, a aceptar cosas y corregir otras, a sentirme mejor conmigo mismo, aparte de todas las responsabilidades familiares y laborales (¿o quizá precisamente por eso?)

21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?

Hostia, pues tendría el pelo largo, muy largo, por la cintura (siempre me ha llamado la atención) y creo que estaría todo el dia mirándome las tetas y probándome lencería... ya sé que queda muy básico, pero...

31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

Aqui no hay duda ninguna ni me lo he tenido que pensar: todo el j#$*@o bullying que sufrí cuando iba al colegio. Eso me marcó mucho y gran parte de mis comeduras de tarro e inseguridades vienen de ahí. Tengo presentes en mi memoria momentos muy concretos y jodidos, y de eso hace mas de 35 añazos ya, y ahí están.

Y soy de normal pacífico y de perdonar, pero esto no. Y si algún día me encontrase en posición de devolver aunque solo fuese un 1% de lo que recibí a las personas que lo hicieron, lo haría, sin dudarlo ni un segundo.

41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?

Fresa con nata!!! una copa enorme, con nata desbordante y una guinda de remate

51. Are you a good liar?

Si me toca improvisar, creo que no, pero si he tenido algo de tiempo, creo que soy bueno y puedo mantener la compostura y la situación. En lo que no soy nada bueno es en cosas tipo poker o mus, me cuesta mantener la “poker face” y encima me sonrojo con mucha facilidad así que me suelen pillar.

61. Do you often read your horoscope?

Hace años lo leía por cachondeo casi todos los dias (tambien compraba el períodico todos los dias…) ahora la verdad es que lo último que miré de un horóscopo fueron las fechas en las que era un signo por acotar un cumpleaños.

Muchas gracias por pasarte!

#ask #asks #answered #respondidas

[the-girl-who-read-too-much]

QOTD: what's your favorite final book in a series? AOTD: I really loved Clockwork Princess--I think it was the perfect, tragic end to one of mu favorite series. I also really enjoyed Deathly Hallows as well 😊✨📚 • Hey guys! Some of you might've seen a similar post yesterday, but I decided I kind of hated the way I edited it so I deleted it after about 10 minutes...oops 😅. Does that ever happen to y'all? Featured here is my first ever post of Kingdom of Ash by @therealsjmaas. I feel like I'm the last person to post about it as well as the lay person to read it. I still haven't finished Tower of Dawn so I haven't even started KoA. Have you read Kingdom of Ash yet? If so, what did you think? • #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstafeatures #bookstagramfeature #bookishfeatures #booknookstagram #igreads #booksofinstagram #book #books #bookish #bookfeaturepage #bookporn #bookaholic #bookblogger #booklover #booknerd #mybookishfeatures #bibliophile #sjm #sarahjmaas #kingdomofash #koa #throneofglass #tog #acotar https://www.instagram.com/p/BqklrMwnKtW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o913520gsiv1

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[inspiraciondormida]

Sin duda tiene un 10 (5⭐️) Es una de las lecturas que más he disfrutado este año. Que gracias a mi PLL (@bells_lemos ) ha llegado a mus manos por mi cumple y no pude resistirme a leerlo. Ahora confieso que necesito el segundo y que soy #TeamTamlin por lo menos por esta primera parte porque no se que me espera la segunda. #dondeelinfinitotocaelsuelo #blog #bookaddict #book #igbook #instabooks #instabook #ilovereading #ilovebooks #ilovebook #instablogger #read #blogliterario #bloggerbooks #bookporn #lovingbooks #booklover #booklove #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #photography #booknerd #bookphotography #unacortederosasyespinas #acowar #acotar (en Galicia, Spain)

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[stromuprisahat]

Nesta shifted her attention to Cassian, noticing that gleam—what it meant. She snarled softly, “What are you looking at?” Cassian’s brows rose—little amusement to be found now. “Someone who let her youngest sister risk her life every day in the woods while she did nothing. Someone who let a fourteen-year-old child go out into that forest, so close to the wall.” My face began heating, and I opened my mouth. To say what, I didn’t know. “Your sister died—died to save my people. She is willing to do so again to protect you from war. So don’t expect me to sit here with my mouth shut while you sneer at her for a choice she did not get to make—and insult my people in the process.”

A Court of Mist and Fury- Chapter 24 (Sarah J. Maas)

#ACoTaR #ACoMaF Chapter 24 #MU reads ACoTaR #Nesta Archeron #Cassian #Feyre Archeron #V #A Court of Mist and Fury #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas #anti Nesta #I'm not particularly invested in ACoTaR #but I miss this Cassian. #Y'no when he still had a brain alongside his dick.

[stromuprisahat]

So Tamlin was right—about my safety. To some degree. It didn’t excuse anything. “So you never planned to stay with me while I trained. You used me as bait—” “Yes, and I’d do it again. You were safe the entire time.” “You should have told me!” “Maybe next time.” “There will be no next time!” I slammed a hand into his chest, and he staggered back a step from the strength of the blow. I blinked. I’d forgotten—forgotten that strength in my panic. Just like with the Weaver. I’d forgotten how strong I was. “Yes, you did,” Rhysand snarled, reading the surprise on my face, that icy calm shattering. “You forgot that strength, and that you can burn and become darkness, and grow claws. You forgot. You stopped fighting.” ... “Don’t,” I snarled into his face, “ever,” I pushed his rock-hard shoulders, talons curving at my fingertips, “use me as bait again.” He stopped laughing. I pushed harder, those nails digging in through his leather. “You said I could be a weapon—teach me to become one. Don’t use me like a pawn. And if being one is part of my work for you, then I’m done. Done.” Despite the snow, his body was warm beneath me, and I wasn’t sure I’d realized just how much bigger he was until our bodies were flush—too close. Much, much too close. Rhys cocked his head, loosening a chunk of snow clinging to his hair. “Fair enough.”

A Court of Mist and Fury- Chapter 26 & 27 (Sarah J. Maas)

This isn't just support, this is pushing, where there's clearly a room for growth. And unconditional acceptance of boundaries clearly set.

#ACoTaR #ACoMaF Chapter 26 #ACoMaF Chapter 27 #Feyre Archeron #Rhysand #Feysand #MU reads ACoTaR #A Court of Mist and Fury #V #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas

[stromuprisahat]

While I'm not a fan of fae as mythical creatures, I've learned to appreciate Holly Black's Elfhame with its bizzare colourful otherness and inhabitants that may possess human range of emotions, but their customs and way of thinking always remain strange.

That's why I can't connect with SJM's Prythian, whose characters are mostly high fae, which translates as magical humans with pointy ears and longer lifespan. Not only they can tell lies, they speak and act as straightforward as humans. Changing them into magicians wouldn't have much of an impact on the story.

#fae #fairies #Elfhame #Prythian #The Folk of the Air #vs. #ACoTaR #Holly Black #Sarah J. Maas #MU reads ACoTaR #V #Even the extra appendage fit in. #Illyrians get cool wings #Cardan a tail #Oak goat's legs.

[stromuprisahat]

Their tan, muscled arms were both covered in the same manner of tattoos that adorned my own hand and forearm, the ink flowing across their shoulders and over their sculpted pectoral muscles. Between their wings, a line of them ran down the column of their spine, right beneath where they typically strapped their blades. “We get the tattoos when we’re initiated as Illyrian warriors—for luck and glory on the battlefield,” Cassian said, following my stare. I doubted Cassian was drinking in the rest of the image, though: the stomach muscles gleaming with sweat in the bright sun, the bunching of their powerful thighs, the rippling strength in their backs, surrounding those mighty, beautiful wings. Death on swift wings.

A Court of Mist and Fury- Chapter 30 (Sarah J. Maas)

Cassian: *tutor mode on*

Feyre: *procrastinating horny noises*

#ACoTaR #ACoMaF Chapter 30 #Feyre Archeron #Cassian #MU reads ACoTaR #A Court of Mist and Fury #V #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas

[stromuprisahat]

Sick and tired of Lucien blaming Feyre for Tamlin's behaviour. He was violent before her, he is a dick all by himself, but hey, he's "the scorned male", so it's alright he can't control his own behaviour and he’s taking it out on his only friend left... all Feyre’s fault.

#ACoTaR #MU reads ACoTaR #A Court of Frost and Starlight #Tamlin #Lucien Vanserra #Feyre Archeron #anti Tamlin #anti Lucien #V #ACoFaS Chapter 18

[stromuprisahat]

I lay naked and prone on a familiar red marble floor while Amarantha slid a knife along my bare ribs, the steel scraping softly against my skin. “Lying, traitorous human,” she purred, “with your filthy, lying heart.” The knife scratched, a cool caress. I struggled to get up, but my body wouldn’t work. She pressed a kiss to the hollow of my throat. “You’re as much a monster as me.” She curved the knife over my breast, angling it toward my peaked nipple, as if she could see the heart beating beneath. I started sobbing. “Don’t waste your tears.” Someone far away was roaring my name; begging for me. “I’m going to make eternity a hell for you,” she promised, the tip of the dagger piercing the sensitive flesh beneath my breast, her lips hovering a breath above mine as she pushed—

A Court of Mist and Fury- Chapter 17 (Sarah J. Maas)

Homoerotic nightmares?

#ACoTaR #A Court of Mist and Fury #ACoMaF Chapter 17 #MU reads ACoTaR #Feyre Archeron #Amarantha #V #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas

[stromuprisahat]

“You gave that water-wraith your jewelry. Jewelry I gave you.” “We have a damned house full of gold and jewels.” Lucien took a deep breath that sounded a lot like: “Here we go.” “Why shouldn’t I give them to her?” I demanded. “Those things don’t mean anything to me. I’ve never worn the same piece of jewelry twice! Who cares about any of it?” Tamlin’s lips thinned. “Because you undermine the laws of this court when you behave like that. Because this is how things are done here, and when you hand that gluttonous faerie the money she needs, it makes me—it makes this entire court—look weak.” “Don’t you talk to me like that,” I said, baring my teeth. He slammed his hand on the table, claws poking through his flesh, but I leaned forward, bracing my own hands on the wood. “You still have no idea what it was like for me—to be on the verge of starvation for months at a time. And you can call her a glutton all you like, but I have sisters, too, and I remember what it felt like to return home without any food.” I calmed my heaving chest, and that force beneath my skin stirred, undulating along my bones. “So maybe she’ll spend all that money on stupid things—maybe she and her sisters have no self-control. But I’m not going to take that chance and let them starve, because of some ridiculous rule that your ancestors invented.” Lucien cleared his throat. “She meant no harm, Tam.” “I know she meant no harm,” he snapped. Lucien held his gaze. “Worse things have happened, worse things can happen. Just relax.” Tamlin’s emerald eyes were feral as he snarled at Lucien, “Did I ask for your opinion?” Those words, the look he gave Lucien and the way Lucien lowered his head—my temper was a burning river in my veins. Look up, I silently beseeched him. Push back. He’s wrong, and we’re right. Lucien’s jaw tightened. That force thrummed in me again, seeping out, spearing for Lucien. Do not back down—

A Court of Mist and Fury- Chapter 8 (Sarah J. Maas)

Tamlin's "rule" is build solely on tradition and brute force. He's implementing both in his personal relationships too. His view on the poor is that they got into their situation thanks to their own vices.

Lucien's submissive to him, afraid to argue, uncomfortable any time it looks like Feyre might object to something. He can excuse her actions, suggest a tiny compromise, but never really stand up to Tamlin, or clearly take Feyre's side.

They're insecure toxic masculinity and weakness of character combined.

#ACoTaR #ACoMaF Chapter 8 #MU reads ACoTaR #Feyre Archeron #Abusing Feyre #Tamlin #Lucien Vanserra #A Court of Mist and Fury #V #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas #anti Feylin #anti Tamlin #anti Lucien

[stromuprisahat]

If—if Tamlin went to war to get me back. No. No, that wouldn’t be an option. I’d written to him, told him to stay away. And he wasn’t foolish enough to start a war he could not win. Not when he wouldn’t be fighting other High Fae, but Illyrian warriors, led by Cassian and Azriel. It would be slaughter.

A Court of Mist and Fury- Chapter 32 (Sarah J. Maas)

That guy has a fuse shorter than his nose hair. Thinking isn't his strongest suit.

#ACoTaR #ACoMaF Chapter 32 #Feyre Archeron #Tamlin #MU reads ACoTaR #A Court of Mist and Fury #V #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas #anti Tamlin #He wasn't foolish! #LOL

[stromuprisahat]

ACoFaS- Sneak Peek of the Next book ~ ACoSF- Chapter 1

How far did we get from “We are the same, you and I.”?

I mean- wow! Nesta managed to alienate the only person, who wasn’t done with her shit yet!

*fake surprise*

How clever!

How do you highlight someone’s badass without proving it by their actions? They’re rude to already established incredibly powerful characters...

iNtErEsTiNg

This would be annoying if she were a moody teenager. Since she’s adult woman... beyond pathetic.

No, he’s your sponsor...

Why the fuck is Feyre still defending her?!

And more importantly- why is she aggressive towards others for Nesta’s sake?!

You’re not responsible for Nesta’s shitty behaviour! She’s always been a leech, now she’s just potentially powerful one!

Stop babying her! She’s a grown-ass woman, older than you, and she kicks away anyone, who tried to help her, you included!

I sHoULd HaVe BeeN tHeRe To HeLp YoU... How? What more should Feyre do for it to be enough?! She offered home, work, company, resourses, support and yet Nesta merely kept spitting in her face and somehow it’s Feyre’s fault?!

... coming from a person, who looks and stinks like a hobo by her own doing...

Well, ~I~ am feeling like I’m reading a scene between hormonal teenager, who’s experimenting with drugs and getting worse grades than ever, and their exasperated mother...

I don’t have the words...

Nesta made pretty clear she doesn’t want anyone in her dump, she’s refusing their attempts to include her, yet she’s whining about their lack of visits and invitations?! How long are they supposed to keep trying, when over a year isn’t enough?

#ACoTaR #MU reads ACoTaR #ACoFaS SP #ACoSF Chapter 1 #Nesta Archeron #Amren #Cassian #Rhysand #Feyre Archeron #A Court of Frost and Starlight #A Court of Silver Flames #V #books #quotes #Sarah J. Maas #anti Nesta

[stromuprisahat]

Finished A Court of WIngs and Ruin a while ago and I have some notes:

I’m starting to be allergic to specific terms, namely "mate" and "fe/male”. I get creeps every single time I see it on a page.

I have similar reaction to the Christian inspiration- starting with Miryam and her flock of winged soldiers, not nearly ending with Amren’s angelic reveal. That was absolutely disappointing revelation. So was her change into fae. Why does everyone have to become fae for their happily ever after?!

I also did not like the Slavic-ishness. There were moments when all those linguistic inspirations felt like WWII Eintopf- leather shoes included. Maybe a little less might be really more.

As for the plot, there was way too many surprise allies: Jurian, Eris, Helion in a way... Suddenly everyone wants to co-operate out of goodness of their hearts!

The worst part was- as I’m learning to expect- Feyre’s family. Like it or not, they WERE heavily abusive. Nesta and Elain going through traumatizing rebirth doesn’t make them better, yet they’re suddenly treated by the narrative as completely new, better people with no past to answer for. Their father naming ships after them and rallying forces to help Prythian doesn’t change anything either. It’s not like Hybern wouldn’t endanger him too.

I’ve read enough meta not to expect any better in the future.

#ACoTaR #A Court of Wings and Ruin #Sarah J. Maas #MU reads ACoTaR #V #Miryam (ACoTaR) #Seraphim (ACoTaR) #Amren #Jurian #Eris Vanserra #Helion #Feyre's family #Nesta Archeron #Elain Archeron #Feyre's father #anti Nesta #anti Elain