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The MC is incredibly bland and at first none of the plot or relationships made any sense. I had a LOT of eye rolling and it wasn't until the end that I realized that MC is bland for a REASON. Having a blank canvas character allows the reader to project themselves into the story more easily...which is probably why people like it so much. Yearning, romance, sex - its all much more fun when you can imagine your self as the recipient.
And for that the book did its job. Its a wonderful YA y/n self insert self indulgent book. The spice level is pretty low - the 1.5 scenes were short, laced with metaphors and not particularly racy. But I come from the land AO3.
The plot was kind of weird, especially the last third with the trials. It seems the second and third books are better BUT i will not be reading them because there are more compelling love stories with muh better sex, slow burn and enemies to lovers.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence
Moderate: Kidnapping
Minor: Alcoholism
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Murder, Alcohol
Minor: Cursing, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, Classism
Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Gore, Abandonment
Minor: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Classism
This had been on my TBR for 4 years and idk what took me so long. People either love or hate this book and this series in general and I liked it a lot! I will say the beginning 20% is pretty slow, it took me a couple weeks to get through that and then I read the last 80% in less than 24hrs. I read along with the graphic audiobook and that version shuffles some inner monologue and dialogue around to make conversations flow, so Iād suggest the regular audiobook first and the graphic audio for a reread. I really didnāt find the book spicy at all, I think this could be appropriate for YA readers, but Iāve heard the rest of the series is spicier. Another thing: why does everyone hate tamlin?? Heās a pretty decent guy and takes care of FMC and her family when he doesnāt need to. I can see the rhys hype, heās the misunderstood villain bad boy who I predict will be an enemies to lovers in the future and his fan art isš„µ. Some of the book is gory and graphic, I would classify this as a dark romantasy with plenty of fluff. I would definitely reread in the future and Iām looking forward to the rest of the series!
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Classism
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Stalking, Death of parent
Graphic: Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Itās marketed as violent and sexy - the violence was definitely there, a lot more than I expected actually. Sexy scenes were few and far in between, unless you count sexual violence as sexy, which I very much donāt. I thought Feyre was an idiot most of the time, but she was feisty and loyal. To me, Tamlin didnāt have that much personality. Lucien was a little better and Rhys was the most fleshed out, which is still not saying much.
On one hand I would like to get to know these characters better in the next books, on the other hand the violence, especially the sexual violence, is really turning me off
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Sexual harassment