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

69 reviews

issiebee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

sugarbear's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Torture

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

blj0007's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, and Sexual assault

feliciarene's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I've said it once, and I'll say it again - I was a teensy, tiny bit apprehensive about this book going in... After reading A Court of Frost and Starlight, which wasn't really my jam (at all), I was worried that I wouldn't like reading about Cassian and the new-and-unimproved Nesta. But Sarah J. Maas washed away all my worries pretty much instantly, creating a gripping story that pulled at my heartstrings.

I know everyone and their mother has gone on about Nesta's character development in ACOSF. But I'm gonna have to agree that her progression throughout the novel was phenomenal. Sarah J. Maas writes about mental illness and recovery so beautifully, and with such raw emotion, that it was easy to resonate with Nesta's struggle. 

We also can't discount Cassian!! His story was just as heartbreaking as he reflected on his past and the way he had been singled out and "othered" despite his connection to the High Lord of the Night Court.

Personally, my favourite bit was the friendship between Nesta, Emerie, and Gwyn... They were SO cute and I would love to read more about this friend group in the future.

And the moment of truth... ACOSF takes 2nd place in my overall ranking of ACOTAR (just behind ACOMAF). It was THAT good to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Self harm

Pregnancy and childbirth complications were a big theme of the second half of the book. Talked about and emphasized often. Childbirth depicted on-page.

runitsthepopo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

mfsquared's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

4.75

Oof. This book was really well done, especially in Nesta's character development and truly charting the depths of her pain and it's consequences. Nesta has never been a character I liked, and this book made me fall in love with her. It also made me

desperately want to begin training to be a Valkyrie!

I loved that again, Maas didn't shy away from the brutality of trauma's effects, even as they manifested so differently for Nesta than they did Feyre or Elaine. And I loved Nesta's journey to

heal her own broken heart, find strength in and love for herself, and learn how to share that love and strength with others.

I'm excited to read more about all of these characters I love so dearly!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, and Grief

Moderate: Rape, Torture, Self harm, and Pregnancy

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

*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*

queenofthefae's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism

Minor: Self harm and Torture

effy's review against another edition

emotional mysterious 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

4.5

Review from 2nd re-read: I really enjoyed this reading, the power of Nesta's journey continues to be one that I truly adore. There were a handful of things that I noticed both both and bad during this re-read.

The "bad" were a mix of less than great writing (but that is on brand for Maas) and the fact that a couple of the story beats were quite similar to ones that we saw in the core trilogy. Neither of these issues massively impacted my enjoyment but were more of eyeroll moments.

In the "good" column, I feel like I saw a good amount of setting up what was to come which made for a really enjoyable experience. 

Overall this was a thoroughly enjoyable return to the world of ACOTAR.

Review and rating from first read: This review will be appropriately spoiler tagged for ACOSF however it may contain spoilers for the previous 4 books so proceed with caution if you are not fully caught-up with the series.




I went into this book feeling fairly neutral about Nesta and quite liking Cassian but overall kinda being sad that we were no longer following Feysand. This book managed to make me fall in love with Nessian as a pairing as well as a brilliant cast of new characters. I was a little disappointed by the

queerbaiting

that occurred as it seemed it would lead somewhere but there did not although that could be the set-up for

Emerie and Mor becoming a couple in a future book

. I think there were a couple of other things that I wasn't the biggest of fan of namely

Feyre managing to get pregnant within a year of deciding that she would like to despite it being established that Fae only menstruate twice a year

but overall I found the character journeys within this book to be really compelling and enjoyable.

There is definitely more story to be told after this book but the book ends in such a way that it is more loose threads than a massive cliffhanger which I appreciate. 4.5⭐

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Body horror, Confinement, Rape, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Blood, Cursing, Death, and Murder

Book contains pregnancy, kinda of depicts death of mother and child in childbirth