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A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

199 reviews

livvmarks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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? Yes

5.0

The most beautiful perfect book ever- made me feel so seen in the mental health aspect as well. Can’t wait for the next one in the series<3

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Content Warnings

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

autumnnleeaves's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

I loved the Nesta/Cassian parts of this book but the parts with Rhys frustrated me. Luckily the book mostly focused on Nesta, Cassian, and Nesta’s new friends. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Gore and Sexual assault

bookish_kori's review

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

Rating was difficult, as this book is so much more indulgent and easy to praise than ACOTAR upon reflection, but it also didn’t give me as much to praise as ACOWAR. I went with 3. The relationship and friendship progression between Cassian and Nesta was well done and easy to believe, even if it was hard to imagine Cassian simply forgiving her for all that she’d ever said to him when she held his barbs against him. It’s definitely a kind of play on rivals to lovers and it does make sense. 

Positives: relationship progression between Cass and Nesta, a little bit of progression between Feyre and Nes, positive and strong female relationships, a sisterhood to rival the bat boys brotherhood, warrior women/Valkyrie training, positive dealing with SA trauma, empowerment and choice, positive portrayal of healing from trauma and acceptance (at least from Cassian, priestesses, and Feyre for the most part) that everyone’s journey may be different and that that doesn’t mean that we’re not still responsible for our own actions.  Silly positive: they did the annual snowball fight 😂

Negatives: Feyre is really patient and doesn’t really confront Nesta after the beginning of the book. It works and Nesta isn’t nearly as rude to her as she is to Elain but it seems unrealistic for someone who argues as much and as well as Feyre. Also: fighting Elain is so anti-Nesta. It can be explained that she’s finally dealing with her own stuff since she’s not worried about Elain anymore but still it seemed off. Nesta still isn’t likable, though she’s more likable than she was before reading the book. I don’t actually think the smut happens more often or more gratuitously than it does between Rhys and Feyre. So, same as the first books: there are times and places for it and battlefields/training are not it. Also they did the snowball fight but you never find out who wins 😭

***SEMI SPOILER AHEAD*** 
There was NO conversation between Nesta and Rhysand. He was aggressive to her the whole time which was only explained by her being mean to his mate and that Feyre was pregnant so he was extra ornery as a mate. Then 180ed after a plot twist at the end and it was so ridiculously unrealistic I hated every interaction they had. Lastly the WHOLE PREGNANCY was INSANE. Rhys withheld vital info from Feyre, shielded her magically the ENTIRE pregnancy and ignored her distaste for that (I cannot imagine how that felt after Tamlin? The heck?), she was basically useless the entire book because of the pregnancy, and—though the inner circle still revered her as their high lady—they continued to make decisions without her and withhold information (and made decisions about Nesta without Nesta which was wild for a court built on choice). It just seemed really awful for them but then again it was from Nesta and Cassian’s POVs so maybe that’s what it seemed like the whole time to them. Maybe I just don’t like the inner circle from anyone else’s POV… but like also Cassian is IN the inner circle and *still* they looked bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Death of parent, Death, War, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Torture, Gore, and Suicidal thoughts

Rough sexual content, minor exhibitionism, minor mentions of sexual roleplay, etc. Basically it’s like a 3 or 4/5 peppers spice book 🌶🌶🌶🌶 depending on your rating system. No BDSM really. Mentions of rape and sexual violence regarding main character and side characters/priestesses.

idrilcelebrindal's review

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

2.0

There were so many plot holes in this book that it was incredibly distracting. Things that were super important for half the book never got mentioned again and the ending was rushed and just plain bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Sexual content, Sexism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism and Rape

Minor: Kidnapping

julia_ireadromantasy's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Kidnapping, Rape, Death of parent, War, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts

kaylasueeee26's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Gore

firehearttt's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Gore, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Grief, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

trislima's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, War, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Classism

gothbaby's review

adventurous emotional 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

A Court of Silver Flames is decidedly my favourite instalment in the ACOTAR series and Nesta is, by far, my absolute favourite character.

Part of me read through the previous books just so I could get to this one and experience Nesta’s story. Unsurprisingly, this book made me love her (and Cassian) even more. I was enthralled from beginning to end and really wanted to read more.

I wish Nesta had been allowed to really learn her powers and understood how it was all a part of her. While I enjoyed her training and initiative to train as a Valkyrie, I hoped to really see her as the harbinger of Death as she grew into herself. Selfishly, I wanted her to be the strongest of the Archeron sisters and yield her powers with a sense of righteousness, but I’m genuinely happy she got to come full circle with her own healing above succumbing to the raw power she was gifted.

I was enamoured with her and Cassian (perhaps even more than I was with Rhysand and Feyre) and enjoyed SJM’s head-first plunge into graphic smut scenes. 

update 31 jan 2024: i had to change the rating because i simply cannot stop thinking about (how much i love) this book. nesta get behind me!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Gore

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexism

Minor: Torture

ursimae's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Toxic relationship, Blood, Misogyny, Addiction, Abandonment, Confinement, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Alcohol, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Vomit, Classism, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent and Child death