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A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

101 reviews

katiecoconut21's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The third book in the ACOTAR series, A Court of Wings and Ruin resolves a lot of the major plotlines established in A Court of Mist and Fury. One of the longer books in the series, I was worried it would have a lot of extraneous filler. I found myself pleasantly surprised that I hardly ever felt that it was dragging on.

I felt like a lot of the war scenes were pretty well done, especially because a lot of romantasy writers tend to struggle in that regard...or they make it way too pretty. Mentioning the gore and the flies, well done, Sarah J. Maas. I will say that I wish Feyre had been involved more in these scenes, especially since she established in A Court of Mist and Fury that she can fight well, especially since

she killed the Attor

. It felt a bit like a wasted opportunity, but I understand that Feyre is considerably young compared to war-seasoned characters like Rhysand, Cassian, Azriel, and Mor.

The ending killed me and brought me back, and I guess

that's what happened to Rhysand too

. I was an absolute wreck when

Rhysand died pouring his power into fixing the Cauldron

, and then for a few chapters after too. I thought Sarah J. Maas had been mentioning how

Rhysand would rather give himself up than his friends or his people

for the whole book so that Rhysand and Feyre would work together when this sort of thing happened, but I was very wrong. Honestly, I was more surprised that

Tamlin actually helped bring Rhysand back to life

than

Rhysand being brought back to life

at all.

Overall, a well-done conclusion to a lot of established plotlines. I was already feeling depressed at the thought of leaving the world of ACOTAR behind, and I still have a novella and a novel ahead of me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Kidnapping and Grief

Minor: Vomit

strubbries's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

What very much turned me off to this book was the fact that

they had literal sex in a camp filled with wounded and dying people.

Why. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Death, Gore, Hate crime, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Kidnapping and Death of parent

thepeculiarlibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

took a minute to get through it, but glad i did. i cried twice! which i don’t do often! can’t wait to see where it goes from here!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

violentpeach's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Kidnapping

ursimae's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.75

WOW. This one had me going THROUGH IT. What a glorious heart-pounding whirlwind. Alliances lost and found, sweeping war across many lands and climates… this is what a true magical fantasy book should be. Of course I love the romance involved and all of the friendships sewn into the heart of this series, but ACOWAR was definitely heavy on intense battle and strategy and unbridled power, which really drew me in even deeper to that fantasy world where anything could happen. And anything DID happen!! While a little slow through the middle of the story after an incredibly cunning and sharp start, the last 200 pages more than made up for it. Edge of my seat with tears in my eyes, ready to slaughter Hybern like a well-trained Illyrian soldier. It was, in a word, EPIC.

LONG LIVE PRYTHIAN!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Vomit, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

hanreads__'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Due to who the author is and what they stand for, I will not be leaving a review. This set was purchased second hand and read for enjoyment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content

nehaslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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? No

4.25

I did like this book a lot, not as much as the second one though. My main issue with it is that it could’ve been split into two normal sized books which could’ve been a lot easier to get through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Infidelity, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

rowstream's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Minor: Homophobia and Vomit

tinyarthoe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Confinement and Kidnapping