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A review by intensidadluminosa
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
2.0
I usually have a soft spot for the main characters. However, this book has proved me how wrong I was about this.
The only reason that got me to finish the book is Cassian... Barely. The story tries to present Nesta as a complex character, a morally (dark) grey one, yet fails miserably and she is just... An asshole. All the time. Her redemption is almost non-existent to me, mainly because her ambitions and the excuses for her behaviour don't make any sense. In the slight moments that I think they could, she backstabs someone again and all the progress on my attempt of liking the character (and I really really tried, I mean, I read 700 pages of it) disappears. She constantly talks about Feyre being a bad sister, during the whole book, even if she already forgave Nesta's mistakes, which are A LOT and much more hurtful. Nesta is self-centered and disrespectful the whole book, and this never changes.
The valkyries thing doesn't make any sense either. It is just ridiculous. I wasn't expecting much realisim from this series but continiously over-powering literally the worst character of it was the worst thing of the book.
The only thing I learned with this book is how important it is to have a main character with an actual morality, one that makes sense at least, either good or evil, and how much I miss Feyre and Rhysand.
I only give 2 stars to it because: 1) Cassian (even though I like him way less after reading this), and 2) each scene in which someone tells Nesta to fuck off.
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The only reason that got me to finish the book is Cassian... Barely. The story tries to present Nesta as a complex character, a morally (dark) grey one, yet fails miserably and she is just... An asshole. All the time. Her redemption is almost non-existent to me, mainly because her ambitions and the excuses for her behaviour don't make any sense. In the slight moments that I think they could, she backstabs someone again and all the progress on my attempt of liking the character (and I really really tried, I mean, I read 700 pages of it) disappears. She constantly talks about Feyre being a bad sister, during the whole book, even if she already forgave Nesta's mistakes, which are A LOT and much more hurtful. Nesta is self-centered and disrespectful the whole book, and this never changes.
The valkyries thing doesn't make any sense either. It is just ridiculous. I wasn't expecting much realisim from this series but continiously over-powering literally the worst character of it was the worst thing of the book.
The only thing I learned with this book is how important it is to have a main character with an actual morality, one that makes sense at least, either good or evil, and how much I miss Feyre and Rhysand.
I only give 2 stars to it because: 1) Cassian (even though I like him way less after reading this), and 2) each scene in which someone tells Nesta to fuck off.