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Moderate: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Put it down a cupple of times because I was anoyed by Feyra.
4,5/5 Second half of the book was more interesting. Couldn‘t stop reading and listening for the last 30% of the Book.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Death of parent
Some of the word choices and descriptions were a bit immature and YA, but not too distracting that it ruined the read. Just a lil cringe at times. The world and creature building was fantastic.
I recommended to my boyfriend who is much more well-versed in fantasy stories, which says a lot in my opinion.
Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Torture, Vomit, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Moderate: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
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
Annoying point of the plot:
Also not a fan of the Beauty and the Beast style Stockholm syndrome.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
For example: Tam calls Feyre „You“, she things he can‘t remember her name. A few sentence after he calls her Feyre, she don’t comment on it. A few sentence after he calls her Feyre again, and now she comments on ist that he know her name…. Yes, Girl, he die that a Minute ago also.
That small, bit wh hen there is stuff like this again and again it become really annoying.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder
Moderate: Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, War
Minor: Ableism, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol
I really really wanted to like this guys 😩🥺, considering the love that I have for the TOG series. Unfortunately it's a miss for me.
The edition that I have has 416 pages + 3 pages of acknowledgement, and I think this could be reduced to 350 pages max. Because nothing really happened here, like absolutely nothing, it was so flat, and I constantly zoned out. Here's literally what happened after Feyre was taken to Prythian:
1. she woke up
2. she had breakfast
3. hunt/promenade in the garden
4. paint
5. have dinner with Tamlin and Lucien
6. sleep
7. repeat
this is the entire activity.
And also, it baffles me the fact that ACOTAR came out the same year as Queen of Shadows (a.k.a one of my favorite books). The writing here is not strong and flat whilst (I'm sorry to compare this to QoS) QoS was amazingly structured. Compare to QoS ACOTAR is a joke (I'm so sorry). You know it's really hard to dislike a book everyone loves lmao, don't come at me please haha.
Last but not least: the usage of the word 'growled' in this book haunts me, it made me hate the word even more. Take a shot every time SJM used the word 'growled', you'd be wasted.
So yeah, it's a solid 2 for me, but don't get me wrong I would still read the rest of the series, it's just if it weren't for the hype I would DNF this.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Murder
Moderate: Blood, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
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