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Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence
Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Murder
Minor: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
Feyre trifft nie eigene Entscheidungen, sondern die Geschichte wird von Ereignissen getrieben, sie ist eine passive Person. Sie monologisiert in ihrem Kopf ohne Ende und schafft es immer wieder, dass sich am Ende alles um sie dreht..
Sarah hatte die Chance eine spannende magisch mystische Welt zu erschaffen, doch das Worldbuilding ist inkohärent und unvollständig. Die Strukturen der Höfe werden nur oberflächlich beschrieben und haben wenig Logik. Es wirkt als wären die magischen Regeln der Welt beliebig, um die Handlung in eine bestimmte Richtung zu lenken (statt sie organisch wachsen zu lassen)
Ich hätte abbrechen sollen, als ich die Chance dazu hatte. Die Männer in diesen Büchern sind nur heiß und das entschuldigt anscheinend die Übergriffe und normalisiert/ romantisiert das agressive Verhalten gegenüber Feyre und wird als "Leidenschaft" dargestellt.
And what do you mean she is a 19-years looking immortal?? Das ist so widerlich, ihr "lover" sieht Mitte Ende 20 aus... stop normalizing this omg.
Die Reihe hat absolut nicht sein Potential ausgeschöpft. Man hätte soviel Möglichkeiten gehabt, ohne toxische Beziehungsmuster, problematische Romantisierung und schwache Schreibweise. Interessante Idee, schlecht umgesetzt.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, War
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence
*Read as an audiobook* total 16hrs 7min
Right from the start of the story I was captivated and could fully imagine the scenery, the characters, the world that was building. That’s one thing I will say about this story, it’s rather easily to follow and pulls you into a new world, making it almost cinematic.
The thing I will say about this story is that for me it was a very slow burn and it didn’t start to get interesting until around 75% of the way and then it got rather boring again, I wasn’t interested in the ending of the story, it didn’t give a wow factor, in fact maybe even ended disappointing even… I think that was due to it feeling very rushed towards the last few chapters. It got so good when Fayre was participating in that first trial game and made me really imagine it all but then after that it just felt really rushed. Not sure I would have finished the story tbh if I had read the physical book just because it was such a long slow burn and I don’t want to read a book that doesn’t get good until it’s practically finished but I get it takes time to build up the characters and worlds etc but I think I would have DNF it if I had read physically read it but I’m glad I kept going with the audiobook. I thought Jennifer Ikeda done a brilliant job narrating it.
From the start I just really didn’t like Feyre. I found her rather annoying, immature and just didn’t LOVE her character even though she was the main character so for me I just couldn’t connect with her. I found the beginning repetitive too. The constant some vocabulary throughout, like seriously how many times can someone CLICK THEIR TONGUE 😭
I didn’t even love Feyre and Tamlin together. It was forced and I can’t really remember when they fell in love and before I knew it she’s fighting for his and her life in that mountain like when, why, where and how?? I thought Feyre had more chemistry with Lucien and I actually was secretly rooting for them to get together 😅 and especially during the trials he was so sweet with her. Yes Rhysand is out of this world sexy but he’s a sociopath and even though I wasn’t very fond of Feyre the whole faerie wine and lap dancing scenes were random, disgusting and cruel.
I will continue with the series as I did find it easy to follow and tbh I fell in love with Prythian, like forget the lame characters I just wanna live in that beautiful world.
Also, as brutal as she was I actually found Amarantha an interesting character and I liked how a female was such a powerful character. I found her so easy to imagine from her description. In fact I found a lot of the characters just so easy to imagine tbh and that’s what I overall really did enjoy about this story.
Favourite quote: “And your hair is…clean.” Perhaps it was my raging hunger making me hallucinate the piss-poor attempt at flattery.'
Favourite chapter: 36, 40, 44
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Animal death, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
Also it took me way too long to realise this was a Beauty & the Beast retelling, but it is by far my least favourite one
Graphic: Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content
Minor: Gaslighting
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail