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adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-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
To me, this didn’t fully live up to the hype. The semi-retelling of Beauty and the Beast throughout the beginning threw me for a loop. I felt the first portion of the book was slow but then it picked up some. It was an average book to me and nothing that made me not want to put it down.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder
Minor: Animal death
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a SLOW book, which I thought I was prepared for but turns out I wasn’t.
Unfortunately, I am a little (or a lot) late to the game with ACOTAR and a few things have already spoiled for me. So… I think that affected my judgment when it comes to Feyre and Tamlin (and how much I can’t stand them together even though I really have no reason to feel that way… yet).
The overall story, when I look at it as a whole, had a lot of cool and exciting elements to it. I think the execution could have been better but it wasn’t terrible.
I just keep telling myself - THE NEXT ONE WILL BE BETTER.
Don’t let me down, Feyre. You better become the badass FMC that I know you can be.
Tropes:
Enemies to Lovers
Beauty and the Beast Feels
Spice: 🌶️
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Vomit
Minor: Sexual content, Sexual harassment
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-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
I got physically mad by the time I finished reading this book. The amount of emotional whiplash it gave me by the end was enough to make me vibrate, have a racing heart, and feel like I wanted to chuck the book against the wall. The first two-thirds of the book was spent being fairly bored with the book and even struggling to get through it a bit (even though I'd been warned all over the internet that it could be a bit of a slog), but by the last 200 pages or so I was hooked and on the edge of my seat.
Feyre's stubbornness and inability to make decisions that seemed to make rational sense,along with the hot and cold start to her and Tamlin's relationship , was mildly offputting and prevented me from getting into any kind of consistent flow. It lulled me into a sense of boredom that got 180'd into edge-of-my-seat reading within just a few chapters that didn't release me until I finished the book. I loved Amarantha as a villain; I thought everything about her was incredibly well done, from the way she acted to her visual description perfectly showing her as a cold and cruel beauty who loved torture . I also loved Rhysand as a character (despite everything he did to Feyre in this book) and can't wait to read more about him . I guess I'm gonna have to go and get the second book asap, dang.
Feyre's stubbornness and inability to make decisions that seemed to make rational sense,
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Vomit
Death (Feyre's mother died when she was young, death and killing of various fae in varying levels of detail) | Gore (Feyre has nightmares of killing Andras in human form and skinning him, summer fae gets his wings cut off with details about his condition, decapitated fae head staked on a fountain, detailed killing of Amarantha) | Murder (a number of fae and some humans are murdered at the whim of Amarantha, Feyre murders Andras and is later forced to murder innocent fae outright with lots of internal dialogue) | Violence (bouts of violence throughout the book related to survival and/or defense until the last third of the book where there is considerably more and graphic violence) | Alcohol, Drug Abuse, & Sexual Harassment (Feyre gets drugged with fae wine every day for a few months by Rhysand and forced in her delirium to do sexual dances) | Injury/Injury Detail (injuries related to fantasy violence and murder) | Sexual Content (a handful of instances that are usually no more than a page and mostly "fade to black" style with the focus on foreplay) | Animal Death (Feyre hunts to survive which is referenced in a few spots throughout the book) | Vomit (a few depictions of vomiting, typically in reaction to murder/death)
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was the second-worst book I’ve read in years. The characters’ motivations were entirely unbelievable, purely convenient to drive the plot forward. I found myself strongly disliking the insipid, self-absorbed main characters and preferring the “despicable” minor characters who at least had some spice and grit. It was also badly written - every phrase and sentence trite and expected, nothing lovely about it. I finished the book merely out of dull fascination that this schlock is so popular — There are much better retold fairytales, romances, adventure stories, whatever aspect of this you might be seeking, there’s a better option out there.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Purportedly feminist but I found it to be quite unfeminist and disempowering of women
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Interesting read, though it did swing between painfully predictable and then actual surprises. You will be yelling at the main character for being an idiot, but you like her anyways.
The kind of romance that you have to be okay with ignoring some of the horrible things all the characters have done to each other.
The kind of romance that you have to be okay with ignoring some of the horrible things all the characters have done to each other.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content
Moderate: Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual harassment
Minor: Torture
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail