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A Court of Silver Flames (Graphic Audio Part 1 & 2) by Sarah J. Maas

112 reviews

franstaffs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Torture, and Death of parent

josephines_library's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-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

5.0

I absolutely loved this book. At first I thought I wasn’t going to like the fact that it wasn’t a Feyre-Rhys centric story, but I have been pleasantly surprised. This story touched upon trauma, predominately at the hands of men, and the various ways in which we as women are changed, live with, and grow from the imposed events. 

Be prepared for a book hangover though. It’s big enough that it took me a couple of days to finish so it felt like coming home, opening the pages and returning to the world, but once it was done I felt like 😮...I need more...

By far ACOSF is my second favorite story in the acotar world and I can’t wait for the next one!

Now the spoiler-centered review

OMG. NESTA. 

She is such a badass, ugh. I loved how her story has parallels to Feyre’s but is also even more realistic and raw. She struggles with addiction, with forgiving herself, and growing from the pain of the past and for me it’s important to see that not everyone can bounce back from trauma. I liked how Nesta also had to go through the process of making her own friends, in the previous books and in a lot of otherones, there’s always the new girl immediately becoming friends with her partner’s friends--and although that’s not a bad thing, it’s also important to depict a protagonist making and nurturing her own friendships outside of the romantic relationship.

All the women in this story are fucking queens. I feel such kinship with them and am now inspired to workout and train because if I was in that world, sign me up to be a Valkyrie. 

Other random thoughts--the ending? Superb. The rite? Hunger Games vibey but still well written. Made me dislike men more but also gave me such an appreciation for the women’s mental and physical strength, ugh Emerie and Gywn are so powerful. The angst? Why did it take soooo long for Cassian and Nesta to admit their feelings? I wanted to just push them together like the tangled unicorn meme (swipe left). But I also appreciated the acknowledgement and respect for Nesta’s feelings and wellbeing on Cassian’s side and her ability to want to protect Cassian from herself (her negativity and anxiety talking, but they are perfect for eachother).

Overall, I love it and highly recommend it: 5/5

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Miscarriage

colleen15's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

You know I could easily rip into the almost cartoonish villains and weird pregnancy line and sometimes preach dialogue, but through the eyes of cynicism any book you read can seem bad. As flawed as SJM can be, her books really do draw me in. Her characters are STELLAR. Her plot isn’t as good but man do I forgot about that when each converse sparkles.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Rape

the_chaotic_witch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

it is a lot... so here ya go
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3881091174?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, and Death of parent

*Sexual content (very explicit)* *Sexual violence (graphic)* *PTSD* *Depression* *Perils of child-birth* *Miscarriage* *Child being still-born* *Death of child-birth* *Terminal illness* *Suicidal ideation* *Violence* *Gore* *Blood* *Physical Abuse*

decklededgess's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

trigger warnings: sexual assault, rape, physical assault, war, PTSD, physical disfigurement and mutilation, abusive family, sexism and misogyny, sex and nudity, alcoholism, pregnancy complications, birth complications, emotional abuse, depression, anxiety

me a sjm in a deep south accent: i can’t quit you 

anyways this book is proof sjm books wouldn’t be getting so much shit for being “toxic” if they were simply categorised as adult and new adult like they should have been since like throne of glass. 

all the queer baiting/lack of diversity/insensitive oversight on ableism/lack of diverse bodies etc all of that stands. in fact in this one she regressed and i honestly thought she forgot mor was selectively lesbian from acowar. 

anyways. there are better books to read but these would be easier to ignore if teens weren’t reading this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Body shaming, Genocide, Incest, Miscarriage, Slavery, and Torture

readerandcat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Read this!! Its the best book in the Acotar series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

ayzil's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Miscarriage, and Rape

laurenparham's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

ginge_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This BOOK. Possibly my favourite of the ACOTAR series so far in terms of characters and character development, where the plot almost seemed like a bit of an excuse to explore these relationships. 

This book was sexy in all the right places, tense at just the right time and a whole lot of heartwarming at other moments. In particular, the little found family of Nesta and two new characters, Gwyn and Emerie, was just beautiful. For me, their friendship is the driving force behind the book, rather than all the impending doom that you come to expect in a fantasy novel. 

However, I couldn’t quite give it that 5 stars as there’s a couple of things that bugged me...

There were some moments that were quite difficult to read and understand without having to do a bit of mental mapping (and even then, I’m still not sure about some bits). For example, on Winter Solstice there’s a whole bit about Azriel brooding in the corner and staring over at the person sitting by the fireplace, but it’s not made totally clear who this is. It doesn’t seem like Maas is supposed to be being mysterious, more so that the words get a bit muddled from the description of the seating plan by the time we get to his brooding.

Despite the book being over 750 pages long, the ending felt far too rushed. When Nesta destroys Briallyn, the human queen, its a bit of a blink and you’ll miss it moment that literally happens over less than a page. And then all of a sudden everything that Nesta has worked for over the whole book is immediately overshadowed by Feyre’s pregnancy. Yes it’s cute that Feysand are having a little baby, but it feels like it should be secondary to everything else and not the other way around. Maas sort of missed a trick with that one.

100% you NEED to go and read the extra chapter from Azriel’s perspective that takes place at Winter Solstice. It clarifies quite a bit about how he’s feeling romantically, and sets a bit of a springboard for the books to come.

Overall a brilliant book which I thoroughly recommend to any fantasy and ACOTAR lovers!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Alcoholism and Violence

Minor: Miscarriage and Death of parent

gingercat99's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Rape, Blood, Medical content, and Kidnapping