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Un Palais de flammes d'argent by Sarah J. Maas

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cchow99's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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readingdesi's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was arguably one of my least favorite books in the series (ACOFAS takes the cake there). This is only more obvious as it took me 2 months to finish because the first half was sooooo slow. While I never liked Nesta, this book only made me like her a little more.

I think I may have fallen victim to this book being so hyped that the book definitely did not live up to the hype. The action was good as expected from SJM but all the pity party that Nesta was doing (aside from the obvious PTSD and depression she was going through) got boring really quickly. In fact, it made me like Elaine more for her giving it back to Nesta. The book also gave me more appreciation for Cassian but he's still not my favorite bat boy for unrelated reasons 🤷🏽‍♀️

Anyway sorry to all those die hard fans of this book but it was not for me...the first three books were tons better in my opinion.

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doomfaery's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

As an individual book, it's not very good. The plot is thin, most of it centered around Nesta & Cassian and the terrible reality that is living with PTSD.

The smut, while not always realistic, is actually not half bad. Idk why she doesn't just write erotica and be done with it.

As part of a series, this book suffers tremendously, and does the original 3 books a disservice in sacrificing plot and characters for an exciting romance to entice young readers.

J. Maas' writing has not improved from the first book. The prose is repetitive and tired, the grammar mistakes glaring. The characterisation is especially poor; everyone has the same vocabulary and habits.

As far as lore goes, there isn't any. This series is a far cry from The Modern Faerie Tales. There are brief mentions of suriels, kelpies, and nixies, but that's as close to real lore as it gets. Fae have taken the place of vampires and werewolves for which mysterious / potentially dangerous creature young girls want to read about and therefore the faeries in this book are just kinda magical humans lol. They would have made better witches.

It's clear that J. Maas wants to keep this world going for as long as she can. The fourth book in the series is basically a slice of life fanfic devoid of any plot (though it is a cozy read), and this book could would have made a much better spin off.

There's some cool stuff with the girls fighting and the Dread Trove, but the rules of this universe grow increasingly ridiculous, with a made up on the spot kind of vibe. J. Maas favors writing a specific kind of romance and smut, which is fine, I guess, but she tends to lose the thread of the actual plot in order to cater to a spicy romance, which should be a subplot and not the main focus. This mistake shows itself over and over, but never moreso than with Feyre's pregnancy. Rhysand respects her right to choose in every situation except if she's carrying his child? And Feyre, who shut down an entire kingdom in revenge for such treatment, is just totally chill about it? Makes no sense. It also made no sense that she got pregnant at all, with how careful everyone is with the danger of war on the horizon. I mean, what?

One of the main plot points is learning to live with PTSD and not let it consume you, which admittedly is great, but it would have made more sense for this book to be split between Feyre, Nesta, and Elain, with the sisters finally coming together like they always should have been. It would have also given the readers a chance to get some insight on Elain/Lucien/Azriel, and Feyre more of a storyline.

But I digress; the story has some good bones. All the war and riddle shite is great. I'll probably read the next one, too, but people act like this series if everything and frankly- while it's very entertaining, like bad fanfiction-the writing is clumsy and reeks of bad planning.

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challenging dark emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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fourthbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

As I read this I found myself inspired by Nesta and wanting to be like her so much it got me going to the gym again, I fear it’s highly unlikely I’ll ever be able to walk 10,000 stairs with my non fae knees and human asthma but I still want to try my best to be open and love my family and be a sick Valkyrie.

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queenbumi's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

So… this book had no business being as long as it was, and there was too many story lines happening for any one of them to feel ~meaty~. I also don’t think I can get past SJM repeatedly resurrecting every significant character that dies; these books took me FOREVER to read because they felt so low stakes. Still, this is my favorite book in the series because of the character development and the message it carried.

This book is, among many other things, a description of the healing process from deep seated trauma, and the power of friendship and community. It gets at the ways in which trauma sits in our bodies and screams for attention until it has been given it (and how we can go about doing that).

Knowing SJM wove parts of her own story into this book makes it more meaningful, and I can imagine this was very healing for her to write. I do have many qualms/frustrations with this book in regard to plot, but Nesta’s healing journey still did something to me. And I think that’s worth something.

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adventurous dark hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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missdragon's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

Read this more for completion sake of the series. While Nesta is a better character than Feyre (more personality, and more character growth), this was also my least enjoyed books of the entire series. Firstly the weakest element of these books is the spice and this had too much. Secondly really disliked the pregnancy subplot, and I don't know why it was even in the book to be honest. It really really really felt like a made up issue, because I could think of a few in-universe ways of fixing it that had to be solved with "oh but we can't do that for some? reason?" and the actual climax of that plot felt like a deus ex machina. I wish this was only about Nesta and the author hadn't written in Feyre changing her mind and deciding to get pregnant at all (I believe this is because the author had a kid). This would have allowed more time for the climax of Nesta's story which felt rushed to me. Finally, the scenes of sword fighting training were wrong. I did like the female friendships in this, it was more fleshed out than the other friendships in the other books.

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