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nkmustdie's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Classism, Medical trauma, Medical content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, War, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Stalking, and Torture
fmstells's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
In plain, it made me feel sick. I’m tired of every high fantasy exploiting, parading, and sexualizing women without their consent. I don’t care if it was for her safety. It was awful to read, and I don’t care if he’s secretly wonderful. Didn’t even discuss the plan with her. I really just felt uncomfortable the entire last fourth of the book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment
Moderate: Misogyny, Torture, and Slavery
rory18's review against another edition
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit, Body horror, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Gore, Sexism, Slavery, Alcohol, Colonisation, Confinement, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Torture, Sexual content, War, Kidnapping, Murder, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Chronic illness, Grief, Mental illness, Addiction, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Religious bigotry
sarahreadsromance's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Look it may not be the most well written and there are some grey lines that are towed in this book, but it definitely is addicting and I definitely will be reading the next books. If you’re looking for an easy fantasy read that is slightly dark, it does the job. It’s cliche, but if you’re just here for the vibes, do it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Vomit, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Torture, War, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual assault, Gore, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, Murder, and Violence
natroze's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Blood, Violence, and Torture
Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Confinement, Kidnapping, Body horror, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Gore, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Animal death, and Blood
Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Classism, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, War, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death, and Torture
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
3.75
Now I can finally watch all of those videos I have been saving about ACOFAR. It took me some time (like ten minutes) to figure out the star rating and how I feel about this book, so here are some mangeled notes: It was okay. I did not particularly enjoyed specific things, but there are no things that I really disliked to still remember them after finishing the book and sitting down for a bit. I liked some characters, I was kinda interested in how the story would progress. I will probably continue with the series. But I did not feel all that happy after reading it. It was okay, but I will not be rereading it, not even thinking about buying a copy for myself. Still, I get the hype. And here are my reading notes:
Why is this set in the UK?
So much not like the other girls, I swear to god.
I bet whoever she will find, they will teach her to write/read.
It was provoked tho, as they would have died from hunger otherwise.
I am really getting tired of her just being “Fairies = bad” every three seconds.
Feyre is so weird for remarking on Lucien’s metal eye.
Tamlin be like: “Do whatever you want with your life.”
But he also be like: *puts invisible bonds*
Feyre should have been fine with being killed, if her only reason to go with him was to kill him and get back. Now, that she is being told in the way that she can believe that her family is being cared for, it is weird of her to keep saying, that Tamlin is “holding [her] family’s well-being against her if she stepped out of line” since her stepping out of line would mean killing her and going against the treaty.
That was such a long description of her face. Bro, I know you write for teenagers, but come on.
I bet the painting was by Tamlin.
Girly, you have just been ready to kill him and now it is all “sheer male beauty”.
Grace? In his breathing?
Yo, they are stuck in masks? That is actually interesting.
Oh no, how could those “terrible beasts” be upset about her loss, when it is clear that she is still hurting. And there is no “I did not miss her in years”, since she is always going back to the promise and has only been able to not be very upset about it, because she needed to survive.
Me when a person is kinda forced to live with me until I die, so they try to be nice to me and figure out how to spend time with me. But no, that could not possibly be it, Lucien just wants her to get eaten by a bear.
It is honestly kind of annoying seeing her dismiss people and assume that everyone is worse than her, or at least more stupid.
Feyre expects to be killed simply for living and talking.
This is “Beauty and the Beast” all over again with her dad. That is such a trap tho, I have no clue how she pretends that everyone is so smart, when she acts like this.
Now I get why this book is this long, since it took her a couple of chapters to understand what he said, even tho he cannot lie.
This girly be like “treaty is not fair, i did not agree to be bound by it” and then be like “oh, poor fae (who i hated so much two seconds ago), they are forced into such anger by their immortality”.
I bet Tamlin will teach her to read and write when he learns about her not being able to.
I do not quite get how she finally understood that there is nothing she can do and her life is therefore meaningless, yet she still is making a plan to escape.
Yo, it’s the Sailor Moon transformation with light.
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying.
Girly, you do not know how powerful Bogge actually is. Maybe it is like a frog.
Lucien is so nice, but I bet Feyre will still hate him for no reason.
He did not say “if” you need to escape, he said “when you free Suriel, you will need to escape”.
I thought we established that Tamlin is a High Lord long ago?
“His human woman” is because you are in his court. The same as Lucien is his, you stupid.
“ignoring how easily I could see the cut of his muscles beneath his white shirt”, cause he is so so so sexy seconds after you almost died.
Why is she now deciding how Lucien should be punished? He probably did not know a better way to trap a Suriel and was trying to help the best he could.
Why is Tamlin suddenly talking about handing out punishments to Feyre?
I see we left plot and now they are just horny.
Bonfire night. Why is Feyre so stupid? Why did she not go back to the house when the black haired high fey left?
Bruh. Chapter 21. I see we left the plot entirely and we got out "fae sex ritual, because fantasy". (to cut out the rant, this is why I abandoned Sabrina's adventures)
??????????? Bro, rape. Flashing red lights rape. There is no "if she doesn't listen, I don't have to deal with what happens". Rape. Stop it.
Why is she now wearing dresses? Is this the arc where she loses her personality, because it's time for the steamy scenes?
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying. x2
Would she just get extremely overwhelmed from enhancing her feelings?
So first she says that there are no celebrations, but now that they celebrate the summer solstice?
I swear to god, the sex scenes are written so bad. “He sheathed into me”? Girly, chill.
This all is just set in Britain. Elaine is talking about tulips in the Netherlands.
Ah yes, a very good idea to go back to the village to give people money. Good thing there are barely any consequences about people suddenly becoming rich in this book.
Oh my god, look, now she is talking about humans like she once did about fae about how weird they look, that is so crazy.
First of all, Feyre, you are stupid, you do not know if this is not a trap. Second of all, tough love is not love, it is abuse. Third of all, you are not supposed to tell to protect yourself, so Amarantha cannot reach into the mind of your sister and figure out from her where you are and use you to hurt Tamlin.
THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. See, Feyre, you told them a different name and they attacked it. They will figure it out.
As a possibility, she should have considered that Tamlin had put glamour over it, so when she returned, she would be disappointed and would just turn back to her family.
So all of this was fixed by Tamlin. I bet this is just the conflict in the 75% mark and then she will go back to him. Or maybe in a different book. Also, they just changed from telling that she needed to get married to him, to just telling him that she loves him.
I also just noticed that the terrible place where the people got killed and everything is bad - yeah, that’s Ireland.
Tamlin sent so many of his people over the wall to get rid of the curse, maybe he is just not great. Sure, it is all for a greater goal, but it is not fair to people who trust him.
Okay, I was kinda wrong, Feyre does not hate him, because he gave up on wooing her and that makes it all okay.
Don’t worry Feyre, you keep falling for traps.
Why is this set in the UK?
So much not like the other girls, I swear to god.
I bet whoever she will find, they will teach her to write/read.
It was provoked tho, as they would have died from hunger otherwise.
I am really getting tired of her just being “Fairies = bad” every three seconds.
Feyre is so weird for remarking on Lucien’s metal eye.
Tamlin be like: “Do whatever you want with your life.”
But he also be like: *puts invisible bonds*
Feyre should have been fine with being killed, if her only reason to go with him was to kill him and get back. Now, that she is being told in the way that she can believe that her family is being cared for, it is weird of her to keep saying, that Tamlin is “holding [her] family’s well-being against her if she stepped out of line” since her stepping out of line would mean killing her and going against the treaty.
That was such a long description of her face. Bro, I know you write for teenagers, but come on.
I bet the painting was by Tamlin.
Girly, you have just been ready to kill him and now it is all “sheer male beauty”.
Grace? In his breathing?
Yo, they are stuck in masks? That is actually interesting.
Oh no, how could those “terrible beasts” be upset about her loss, when it is clear that she is still hurting. And there is no “I did not miss her in years”, since she is always going back to the promise and has only been able to not be very upset about it, because she needed to survive.
Me when a person is kinda forced to live with me until I die, so they try to be nice to me and figure out how to spend time with me. But no, that could not possibly be it, Lucien just wants her to get eaten by a bear.
It is honestly kind of annoying seeing her dismiss people and assume that everyone is worse than her, or at least more stupid.
Feyre expects to be killed simply for living and talking.
This is “Beauty and the Beast” all over again with her dad. That is such a trap tho, I have no clue how she pretends that everyone is so smart, when she acts like this.
Now I get why this book is this long, since it took her a couple of chapters to understand what he said, even tho he cannot lie.
This girly be like “treaty is not fair, i did not agree to be bound by it” and then be like “oh, poor fae (who i hated so much two seconds ago), they are forced into such anger by their immortality”.
I bet Tamlin will teach her to read and write when he learns about her not being able to.
I do not quite get how she finally understood that there is nothing she can do and her life is therefore meaningless, yet she still is making a plan to escape.
Yo, it’s the Sailor Moon transformation with light.
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying.
Girly, you do not know how powerful Bogge actually is. Maybe it is like a frog.
Lucien is so nice, but I bet Feyre will still hate him for no reason.
He did not say “if” you need to escape, he said “when you free Suriel, you will need to escape”.
I thought we established that Tamlin is a High Lord long ago?
“His human woman” is because you are in his court. The same as Lucien is his, you stupid.
“ignoring how easily I could see the cut of his muscles beneath his white shirt”, cause he is so so so sexy seconds after you almost died.
Why is she now deciding how Lucien should be punished? He probably did not know a better way to trap a Suriel and was trying to help the best he could.
Why is Tamlin suddenly talking about handing out punishments to Feyre?
I see we left plot and now they are just horny.
Bonfire night. Why is Feyre so stupid? Why did she not go back to the house when the black haired high fey left?
Bruh. Chapter 21. I see we left the plot entirely and we got out "fae sex ritual, because fantasy". (to cut out the rant, this is why I abandoned Sabrina's adventures)
??????????? Bro, rape. Flashing red lights rape. There is no "if she doesn't listen, I don't have to deal with what happens". Rape. Stop it.
Why is she now wearing dresses? Is this the arc where she loses her personality, because it's time for the steamy scenes?
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying. x2
Would she just get extremely overwhelmed from enhancing her feelings?
So first she says that there are no celebrations, but now that they celebrate the summer solstice?
I swear to god, the sex scenes are written so bad. “He sheathed into me”? Girly, chill.
This all is just set in Britain. Elaine is talking about tulips in the Netherlands.
Ah yes, a very good idea to go back to the village to give people money. Good thing there are barely any consequences about people suddenly becoming rich in this book.
Oh my god, look, now she is talking about humans like she once did about fae about how weird they look, that is so crazy.
First of all, Feyre, you are stupid, you do not know if this is not a trap. Second of all, tough love is not love, it is abuse. Third of all, you are not supposed to tell to protect yourself, so Amarantha cannot reach into the mind of your sister and figure out from her where you are and use you to hurt Tamlin.
THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. See, Feyre, you told them a different name and they attacked it. They will figure it out.
As a possibility, she should have considered that Tamlin had put glamour over it, so when she returned, she would be disappointed and would just turn back to her family.
So all of this was fixed by Tamlin. I bet this is just the conflict in the 75% mark and then she will go back to him. Or maybe in a different book. Also, they just changed from telling that she needed to get married to him, to just telling him that she loves him.
I also just noticed that the terrible place where the people got killed and everything is bad - yeah, that’s Ireland.
Tamlin sent so many of his people over the wall to get rid of the curse, maybe he is just not great. Sure, it is all for a greater goal, but it is not fair to people who trust him.
Okay, I was kinda wrong, Feyre does not hate him, because he gave up on wooing her and that makes it all okay.
Don’t worry Feyre, you keep falling for traps.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Grief, Body horror, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, Confinement, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Sexism
Moderate: War, Slavery, and Rape
Minor: Genocide
I am not sure if basically making fun of someone illiteracy is abelism. Not sure if the human/fey dynamic is based on racism. Could not really classify different wines as drugs, but did anyway.jmeier's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
the protagonist is incredibly unlikeable. the other characters are poorly fleshed out, and the plot is absurd. 3/4 of the way through this incredibly slow beauty and the beast adaptation, there's suddenly a hunger games plot? completely bizarre shift. We are also supposed to empathize with a character who threatens sexual assault, and to forgive the torture and murder of a bunch of innocents for the "greater good" . the greater good being the protagonist getting to have sex. sex scenes were a bit silly, but still somewhat stirring.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Blood, Kidnapping, War, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Animal death, Colonisation, Drug use, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Kidnapping, Rape, Mental illness, and Sexual assault
mathilda1998's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Violence, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Blood, Murder, and Sexual content
goblintales's review against another edition
adventurous
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I don't really get the hype on this one.
The world building feels rather bland and generic feywild. Its full of the classic tropes of fey trickery and deal making, trying to eat the heart of the mortal, etc. If that's your thing, you'll feel right at home. There wasn't anything that felt truly original or creative about it though, just the same fairy magic played out over again in familiar settings.
The prose feels similarly. Its certainly not bad but its nothing to make praise of either. Its easy reading and that the only reason I didn't put it down in the middle somewhere. Specifically, I would have stopped when Tamil assaulted Fehre in the hallway
Maybe the characters are really compelling then? Nope. Feyre and Tamil are both incredibly annoying and unlikable. Feyre is 19, still practically a child, shes dumb and rash and puts herself in harms way constantly, which are fine and totally reasonable for someone her age, but then the central plot line is her Beauty and the Beast romance with a 600 year old immortal who doesn't understand consent (its not sexy to be told "if we don't stop now, I wont be able to stop" during foreplay, its a huge red flag. This shit just glorifies poor consent culture. ) and can't control his 'animal urges.' Like seriously, the age gap between an freshman and senior in college is often dubious enough, this trope is gross and any character that's dating an immortal should have a fully developed brain. It only gets better too when we learn that Tamlins quest for the past 49 years has been to find a mortal that hates fairies and gaslight her to falling in love with him so he can get his full power back. Guess that's why he went for the 19 year old.
Romance arc aside, Feyre was pretty badass. Her skills as a huntress were honed from taking care of her family and she was able to fight and win against the beasts of the feywild on multiple occasions. She makes hard decisions for the benefit of the greater good and viciously looks after the ones she loves.
The minor characters were more likable, Rhys came in late but quickly became my favorite.Even if his plotting and scheming was so obvious that everyone should have seen through it but no one did. And Lucien was a likable jerk and even if we was an ass at times, he obviously cared deeply about his friends.
I'll be picking up book two only because my partner and her friend are reading though it together and I like bookclubs. I hope it gets better because at this rate I can't do 5 books. Please let Tamil die
The world building feels rather bland and generic feywild. Its full of the classic tropes of fey trickery and deal making, trying to eat the heart of the mortal, etc. If that's your thing, you'll feel right at home. There wasn't anything that felt truly original or creative about it though, just the same fairy magic played out over again in familiar settings.
The prose feels similarly. Its certainly not bad but its nothing to make praise of either. Its easy reading and that the only reason I didn't put it down in the middle somewhere. Specifically, I would have stopped when Tamil assaulted Fehre in the hallway
Maybe the characters are really compelling then? Nope. Feyre and Tamil are both incredibly annoying and unlikable. Feyre is 19, still practically a child, shes dumb and rash and puts herself in harms way constantly, which are fine and totally reasonable for someone her age, but then the central plot line is her Beauty and the Beast romance with a 600 year old immortal who doesn't understand consent (
Romance arc aside, Feyre was pretty badass. Her skills as a huntress were honed from taking care of her family and she was able to fight and win against the beasts of the feywild on multiple occasions. She makes hard decisions for the benefit of the greater good and viciously looks after the ones she loves.
The minor characters were more likable, Rhys came in late but quickly became my favorite.
I'll be picking up book two only because my partner and her friend are reading though it together and I like bookclubs. I hope it gets better because at this rate I can't do 5 books. Please let Tamil die
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism
Minor: Sexual assault
timbsy's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual assault, Slavery, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Abandonment
Minor: Alcohol and Vomit