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

104 reviews

bethanyt123's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing slow-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

5.0

I don’t care what anyone else says. This is a great book.

I couldn’t have cared two squats for Nesta prior to reading this book.

So tell me: at what point did my very heart become entirely on the line for her?

This is a beautiful story, woven together with a lot of unnecessary content.

I didn’t read the sex scenes, and I don’t think I missed anything. I loved the slow, painful journey that I went on with Nesta; it felt real and true and good and right.

Cassian knows her, and loves her. I love him for her, and her for him.

I love this tale for its echoes of triumph more than anything. I absolutely adore the Valkyrie, and could honestly have just read a whole book about their story.

I fear for what is coming. I can’t imagine an Elain-centric — or worse, Mor-centric — story, especially not after their stark absences in these pages. But I believe it is certainly coming, especially as we still have no clarity regarding Mor and Eris.

What a redemption arc SJM can write though; I am afraid, and I can’t wait.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Alcoholism

Minor: Death of parent

raebae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexism, Gore, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infertility, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Slavery, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Misogyny, Trafficking, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Misogyny, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Eating disorder, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Violence, Vomit, Addiction, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Pregnancy, Sexism, and War

quietlex's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I really hated Nesta throughout the beginning. The self sabotage and rock bottom spiraling was just too much. But it was all necessary, to watch her climb tooth and nail up that mountain to find true happiness: a chosen family, honest friends, and a burning love. I’ll always love a deadly powerful female ripping at the seams with unknown strengths; Nesta truly lived up to the title “Queen of Death.”

I do wish she was able to unleash herself and her powers more, and learn to hone them to become even deadlier. She finally begins to embrace her true self right when she offers up her stolen power back to the Cauldron. Also, what the hell happened with Mor and Eris! They keep alluding that someone different happened, that Eris isn’t actually this awful male that left his betrothed to die in the woods. 

I really enjoyed the friendships that blossomed between Nesta, Emerie, and Gwyn, their pure strength and determination that kept them together and pushing on. The love that they had for each other, no judgement, just acceptance and understanding. Exactly what Nesta needed, just as much as the other women needed it. They are the parallel to Rhys, Cassian, and Azriel. 


I’m upset she had to give up a portion of her powers to save Feyre and Rhys and the baby, despite understanding her reasoning. Not just to save them, but also the fact that she never wanted her powers, never really used them at all. I saw another review talking about how instead of a redemption arc, Nesta should’ve been given a villain arc. Really let loose and go feral with all that power of Death. She was truly unstoppable if she could’ve just kept training her magic. I wanted her to go Red Witch style, burning everything in her path with those icy flames of silver. Not give up before she’s even started. Especially not to use her one chance to alter herself with fleeing powers to change her womb for future winged babies. Barf boring lame. I figured one baby was enough pregnancy drama. At least it was only kept to a portion of the book, and we didn’t have to hear whatever insufferable narration would’ve accompanied from Feyre. Sorry but I don’t care about that kid, even if it’s supposed to be something insanely rare. No one even mentioned Mor’s friend being pregnant either. I just felt no connection to that storyline. I wanted Rhys to be High King, not turn into a diaper changing snore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Gore, Grief, Pregnancy, Cursing, Death of parent, Confinement, Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Death, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Violence, Misogyny, Sexual content, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Torture, and War

ariel_bloomer's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

2.5

If you look at book reviews of series, you’ll typically see that by books 3, 4, and further, most ratings below a 4 have steeply dropped off. This is because the only people who have continued reading into the series are predisposed to like the books. 

Anyway, this book 4 is a shitshow that screamed MoneyGrab to me. Like an author and publisher had seen the money rolling in from the first books and going “can’t we just… keep going and add some more?” This book seemed far less thought out, and doubled down on the sexy bits while shoehorning in some plot here and there. (Hence feeling very much like pandering)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, War, and Sexual assault

Additional birth and pregnancy content warnings:

birth trauma, maternal death, stillbirth, emergency c-section

banscout's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

if there is one thing that sjm can do incredibly well, it is writing mental health, it is writing the worst lows that have no apparent end and how those lows do not have to be constant. how suffering does not have to be experienced alone. that all of it begins when you come to that grave realisation that something is terribly wrong, and that there is a life we are all worthy of experiencing. that there is hope, and that hope will guide us, through whatever it is that we battle. no battles are fruitless, and nesta is the embodiment of that. whilst trauma will lay upon us open wounds, those open wounds will one day scar. and those scars that may never fade with age will only be just that - scars. this book is a symphony for those who one day thought they'd never make it. but you did. there will always be another tomorrow. the sun will always rise again. so breathe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Addiction, Eating disorder, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Animal death

Minor: Excrement and Miscarriage

cait_coll's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

2.5

I am a simple woman, I don’t kid myself by thinking I read this series for the plot. I don’t overly enjoy the characters, the plot or really anything. It’s very watered down fantasy which is fine! Sometimes I’m in the mood for very easy world-building and a bit of cheeky smut, but oh my god it is never-ending in this book. The little plot there is is immediately minimised by their constant shagging. Any tension in the plot fizzles out immediately because you have to read through five pages of smut before you get back to the story. As I say, sometimes you’re just in the mood for simple and easy reading, but at this stage I was bored of the world, I wanted more tension, drama and danger. I don’t exactly know what I was expecting, even in Feyre’s books, the battle scenes weren’t well written, very anti-climatic and honestly boring to read, and thus has not changed in this book. 

I wouldn’t recommend this if you’re looking for high fantasy, but if you looking for easy reading to giggle at late at night, by all means, read away!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage, Child death, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Rape

headinthepages's review against another edition

V enjoyable reread via audio!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

dani_reis'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexism, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Body shaming

So much smut it's hard to find the plot.

readwithbells's review against another edition

4.25

These books continue to surprise me with how much I like them. This one in particular took a LONG TIME and I do wish that Maas wrote with a little more intention at the beginning because it would have really helped keep my engagement throughout. The sex scenes were sooo hetero (these books are all raging heterosexuality) and didn’t really do anything for me lol and I really hate the “fated mate” storyline.

Am I actually excited for Elain and Azriel’s story where she fights against the mating bond??

I read this book for Nesta’s journey and honestly was incredibly satisfied. Although it would be much more interesting if she was bi. The way Nesta talks about women, she should absolutely be bi and no one can change my mind lol. A couple things kept popping up that I really didn’t enjoy but as a whole, I am glad I read this and finished out the series. 

PS THANK GOD I got out of Feyre’s head. She is either incredibly insufferable (first 2 books) or super boring to the point where I just pretended she wasn’t even in the story (3rd book). Nesta is so much more interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Rape, and Alcoholism