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Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content, Slavery, Kidnapping, Alcohol, War
Minor: Vomit
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Sexual content, Excrement, Sexual harassment
Minor: Vomit, Death of parent
I don’t think I’m the target audience. I don’t mind thinly disguised erotica, but if you’re gonna have muscled (presumably hung) male fairies lounging about, you can only hope for some guy on guy action. None. Painfully straight. Alas… a guy can dream.
Our protagonist is vaguely annoying and egregiously underdeveloped. Appreciating colors in paintings is not a meaningful character trait, in my humble opinion. Besides that, a large portion of this book is giving internalized misogyny. I don’t know how else to put it.
Imagine living for a man…. Literally pathetic.
Lastly, this world’s version of a condom, “the contraceptive brew,” is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. I really don’t think it was supposed to be a joke, which is what disturbs me even more. Maybe the author was dared to put that in.
Anyway, this book is basically a porno. Not well-written, but mostly entertaining. Will probably read the sequels.
Graphic: Slavery
Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War
Minor: Child death
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
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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Grief, Alcohol
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
The first half of this book was really meh. I really didn’t get into it until the Under the Mountain stuff, but when we got there, I was hooked!
Honestly, this book is full of girlbosses - Amarantha was a beeyotch but gotta admire her hustle. She’s a style icon with her Jurian ring, I want one. And Feyre was a pretty badass main character! Her taste in men is abysmal, but hopefully that turns around in book 2!
I love the fan theory that Feyre’s actually a really terrible painter - made her obsession with painting all the time very funny to me.
I’m completely 100% Team Rhys - his and Feyre’s chemistry is SOOOO much better than hers and lover boy Tam Tams. Thank god though that Tam lost that stupid mask cause I really, really hated it. I constantly was muttering “what a dork” under my breath every time he was on page.
Overall, I’m excited to start book 2! It took me a while to get past the first part of the book but now that I’m in it, IM IN FOR THE LONG HAUL, BABY!
Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail