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Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation
Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Vomit, Death of parent
Nachdem eine Freundin seit mehr als einem Jahr versucht hat, mich davon zu überzeugen, diese Reihe zu lesen, habe ich mich endlich überzeugen lassen.
Es gab ein paar Kleinigkeiten, die mich gestört haben,
Now for the English readers: I picked this up from a friend after she tried to persuade me for over a year to read it.
There were some things I didn't like very much,
But I liked Maas's writing style and after reading the second book I can confirm that this is mostly a really long introduction to the real series, but it's worth it.
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Sexual violence
Before I prattle on about the story of ACOTR, I need to vent about some of SJM's writing choices here. What does the phrase "my bowels turned watery" mean, and why was it used TWICE? To me, this is one of the most disgusting descriptions in a book filled with gore and violence. Also, the colors just cannot stay consistent throughout. First, Rhys's deep blue eyes are suddenly referred to as violet, and then, Amarantha's "gold-red hair" becomes "her black hair" in the span of about 90 pages! It's very difficult to hold a picture in my mind when the visual descriptions keep changing all willy-nilly.
This story was very slow-moving for the first few chapters and I was having quite a hard time getting into it. It wasn't until Chapter 5 that I felt a bit interested. Around 60% of the way through is when I actually started having hope for this book. I know this is not the common opinion, but I felt like I could really feel a connection between
As for Amarantha, I thought she was kind of a boring villain. I feel SJM could have taken more time to immerse us into her backstory. Instead, it just felt like a rushed explanation of how we got here. And her trials! Why, oh why, did they get easier as they went on?! For someone so villainous and horrid that everyone on Prythian was terrified of her, her tasks were shockingly simple and straightforward. I would have loved to have seen some of that Amarantha cunning and deception she is apparently well-known for shine through in these trials. I think this would have helped me like Feyre more, too, if we had seen her have to be a bit more clever in order to survive.
The majority of the reason for my rating not being higher comes down to the damn riddle. This "riddle" makes me so mad. Why was so much put on the line over a simple riddle?? And why did Feyre have NO idea of what the answer could be?! I guessed that shit by the time the first line was recited! This genuinely made the last 25% of this book painful for me to read.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment
Minor: Vomit
Moderate: Violence, Blood, Murder, War
Minor: Animal death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Classism
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, Alcohol
Minor: Ableism, Chronic illness, Cursing
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent
Minor: Kidnapping
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Blood
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Murder
Minor: Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail