Reviews with content warning for Violence - A Court of Wings and Ruin

This book just became my favourite of the series. It was so so good. Starting in the Spring Court made me already excited and then the end, oh. my. god. The hype I felt while reading this book, it was incredible.
So well written! So heartbreaking, and so many twists, but so good!
I don't have words for it, but I can say i really enjoyed reading all of it. From begin to end. Bat boys, go!

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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adventurous emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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slow-paced

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

1.0

The court of night? More like the court of ignorance and stupidity

Lets cut to the chase. Why in tarnation did feyre not read Tamlin and Luciens minds at ANYPOINT while she enacting her revenge of taking the spring court down? huh? sjm why is your fmc only powerful when convenient? So much could have been cut down, Acowar was way too long.

The whole destruction of the spring court didn't even make that much sense. I’m all for a girlie getting back at the people who wronged her but feyre ended up hurting a lot of innocent people in the process. She had to invade peoples minds and manipulate people to get them to turn against tamlin and all this could have been avoided if she read his mind and learned he was a double agent. Lucien even hinted towards it

*Part One: Princess of Carrion »
Chapter Six
None. It was either go to war with the Night Court and Hybern, or ally with Hybern, let them try to stir up trouble, and then use that alliance to our own advantage further down the road." "What do you mean," I breathed. But Lucien realized what he'd said, and hedged, "We have enemies in every court. Having Hybern's alliance will make them think twice." Liar. Trained, clever liar.*

If feyre is supposed to be so smart, and she did pick up on this, why didnt she do anything? This is so frustrating. Shes already shown she doesn’t care for fae outside her “family” (which is a sad excuse for a found family) so why would she not invade Tamlin and Luciens mind? If anything that should have been her first thought at the beginning of the book when she returned to the spring court.

Then once she leaves the spring court I found myself frankly not caring. Acomaf hadnt given me enough to care about the inner circle so i didn’t and sjm cant make me like rhysand. Which i have so many gripes but for word counts sake let me name my main ones. The whole ignoring his sexual assault and EXCUSING it and his little habit of not telling his court things.

*Part Two: Cursebreaker » Chapter
Twelve
Was it going on before you even left?" I whipped my head to him, even if I could barely make out his features in the dark. "I never touched Rhysand like that until months later." "You kissed Under the Mountain." "I had as little choice in that as I did in the dancing." "And yet this is the male you now love." He didn't know-he had no inkling of the personal history, the secrets, that had opened my heart to the High Lord of the Night Court. They were not my stories to tell*

here we have sjm acknowledging that yeah, rhysand Sexually Assaulted Feyre UtM in Acotar. Without her consent he dressed her inappropriately (which she was uncomfortable with) had her dance provocatively in his lap, kissed her, and made her drink alcohol so she wouldn't remember the details all without her consent. Yet Sjm is going its fine now. She makes Feyre excuse this behavior, when rhysand hasn’t done anything to actually make up for this.
Now see if sjm actually planned for rhysand to become the love interest why didn’t she just avoid all this by having Amarantha make rhysand do this to feyre? Because that would have solved some issues but no. Because Rhysand did all this of his own free will in acotar. He actively chose to do this to feyre. To humiliate her and anger Tamlin because rhysand is obsessed with Tamlin. Because Sarah Janet Maas did not plan to have Feysand endgame, she has said she completely rewrote and changed a lot of acomaf.

Rhysand also loves to not tell his own court things. I was and still am very angry over him not telling Mor, Azriel, Cassian and at the very least his Wife about his plan with the court of nightmares. Just why.

Mors anger towards Nesta also makes no sense. sjm stop writing girl on girl hate challenge impossible

Now Tamlin. Tamlin tamlin tamlin im so sorry love for what sjm has done to you. If i start i’ll never stop. What Tamlin said to feyre and rhysand at the high lords meeting was out of pocket but he also wasnt wrong about some things. Also, from established character these actions make no sense and his actions haven’t made sense since acomaf because sjm threw him and his character away to play with shadow daddy. But she also can’t commit to making a character of hers actually evil so Tamlin saves the whole day by bringing the autumn court to fight and saving rhysand life. Tamlin has redeemed himself by sjm standards but she then wrote the holiday novel which I have read and detested.

Overall the plot was fine. I guess. it probably looked better when compared to the characters.
Sjm learn to redeem characters outside of “ooh they were abused and have trauma so everything they do is okay” for guys and “she fell in love/had sex with the most PERFECT MALE TO EVER MASCULINE.” its boring and flat. Also I know what happens in Acosf (I will not be reading that ty) so what happened to Nesta. she got the tamlin treatment :(

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