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Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping
Even though it took me a while to read as it was on my kindle, whenever I picked it up I was hooked!! Loved everything about Feyre, with such brilliant world building and a beautiful love story. The second half of the book had me going through so many emotions, and seriously levelled this up in my mind from your usual YA fantasy.
I did guess the riddle straight away, but I’ll let our girl off, she’s not exactly super read up.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
The audiobook narrator does good with the material she is given but this is definitely not a tale for me. People say the next book is better and this is the worst book in the series but I am not giving this author a second chance.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Death of parent, War, Classism
and then i forgot to do the review. but i still remember all i hated in ACOTAR.
"my own bowels turned watery with fear." everyone hates this phrase and i do too, it was never-ending and just a terrible, terrible description.
ACOTAR itself is simply a Beauty and the Beast-type story, practically everyone's read it so i'm not gonna discuss the story. i see why it appealed to so many people though. it's pretty digestible romance, and it hits all the fairytale points. the girl is taken from her humdrum life and swept into a far richer life by a fae highlord, who's inhumanely attractive and is into her. and they fuck. it's what everyone wants!
it's pretty average and of the entire series is the better book of the series.
but.
it's always annoying when white 'fantasy' authors do this thing where they invert racial dynamics by creating a system in their books where white folks experience oppression akin to real life oppression i and other black people face. having humans be enslaved by fae was so ugh, like i outwardly sighed.
i also sighed when maas had the premise be that feyre is like this tough, badass girl. feyre didn't give that *to me*. and i would expound, but i forgot the details so i'm moving on.
the answer to the riddle amarantha gave her...that riddle was so damn stupid. not more stupid than feyre but it was coming close! (the girl thought her disabled father who wouldn't move to feed her, came to Prythian to save her.)
again this story is the strongest in the series, and i only think that's because it draws from so much material we're already familiar with, which is why i haven't called it a 'good' book. it's not; it's quite boring. you know what's gonna happen, you know where the stories going because we've seen it all before.
that's about all i got to say about this one. i did not buy this book. y'all, do not buy this book. want better for yourself, you can do so much better 🙏🏽
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Misogyny
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Abandonment, War
Minor: Slavery, Vomit, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, War