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bloomsbookshelf 's review for:
A Court of Silver Flames
by Sarah J. Maas
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This whole review is a ⚠️ SPOILER ⚠️ just FYI xx
This took me OVER A YEAR to finish 😂
But here’s my year long review of ACOSF.
Now firstly I want to say that I had to switch from actually reading the physical book to an Audiobook to finish it, so take from that what you will.
When I started the series and ACOSF, I absolutely HATING Nesta. I thought she was a brat and entitled and I hated pretty much everything about her. If she’s died I wouldn’t of cried or been upset at all. And I couldn’t wrap my mind around how Cassian liked her at all because she was horrific, and he was, and still is, one of my favourite characters.
And everyone was telling me, “oh but she gets better, you’ll understand if you just keep pushing through because she has trauma”………
It literally made me want to scream in peoples faces when they told me that... Because if a person has trauma, it doesn’t give them the right to be an asshole to people, and especially your loved ones who are trying to help you and have all gone through the same or different types of trauma. Now that’s not to say I’m comparing traumas ect. I just think everyone should have comparison to everyone and Nesta never seemed too in the other books which irked me to no end, (I still stand by this btw).
BUT IN SAYING ALL OF THAT.
I now understand and feel for Nesta a little bit more and I do relate to her in a lot of ways now that I’m finished the book. And I’m glad I gave her a chance.
A lot of the things she did still annoyed me. But I find that I relate to her and actually started to feel bad for her. But then she’d go and do some dumb ass shit and I’d be back to screaming at my book saying, “WHY CANT YOU JUST BE A NICE PERSON?!”
But Nesta herself was saying things like that. Telling herself how shitty she was being and being mad at herself for doing or saying those things. Which I genuinely really appreciated.
Now more onto the book itself. (I’ll do dot points because there’s just too many thoughts).
- Nesta’s character development was awesome. Still a ways to go, but getting there
- Elain standing up for herself was the highlight of the book for me (“you only think about what my trauma did to YOU” you go girlfriend! Tell Nesta off)
- Cassian is awesome. I love him. He’s so funny 😂 And Az is still my favourite
- Gwyn and Emerie are *chefs kiss* perfect
- Feyre and Rhys should of been in the book more
- Everyone said that now hate Rhys, but I disagree…Rhy was always wary of Nesta and vis versa, of course his not gonna be warm to Nesta? But also in saying that there was a lot of times Rhys was nice in this book that people seem to just overlook…
- Nesta having friends is awesome and made me happy for her
- The storyline in general was SOOOOOO SLOW. I didn’t care about what was happening in all honesty.
And yeah. That’s all my thoughts. If not most of them 😂
This took me OVER A YEAR to finish 😂
But here’s my year long review of ACOSF.
Now firstly I want to say that I had to switch from actually reading the physical book to an Audiobook to finish it, so take from that what you will.
When I started the series and ACOSF, I absolutely HATING Nesta. I thought she was a brat and entitled and I hated pretty much everything about her. If she’s died I wouldn’t of cried or been upset at all. And I couldn’t wrap my mind around how Cassian liked her at all because she was horrific, and he was, and still is, one of my favourite characters.
And everyone was telling me, “oh but she gets better, you’ll understand if you just keep pushing through because she has trauma”………
It literally made me want to scream in peoples faces when they told me that... Because if a person has trauma, it doesn’t give them the right to be an asshole to people, and especially your loved ones who are trying to help you and have all gone through the same or different types of trauma. Now that’s not to say I’m comparing traumas ect. I just think everyone should have comparison to everyone and Nesta never seemed too in the other books which irked me to no end, (I still stand by this btw).
BUT IN SAYING ALL OF THAT.
I now understand and feel for Nesta a little bit more and I do relate to her in a lot of ways now that I’m finished the book. And I’m glad I gave her a chance.
A lot of the things she did still annoyed me. But I find that I relate to her and actually started to feel bad for her. But then she’d go and do some dumb ass shit and I’d be back to screaming at my book saying, “WHY CANT YOU JUST BE A NICE PERSON?!”
But Nesta herself was saying things like that. Telling herself how shitty she was being and being mad at herself for doing or saying those things. Which I genuinely really appreciated.
Now more onto the book itself. (I’ll do dot points because there’s just too many thoughts).
- Nesta’s character development was awesome. Still a ways to go, but getting there
- Elain standing up for herself was the highlight of the book for me (“you only think about what my trauma did to YOU” you go girlfriend! Tell Nesta off)
- Cassian is awesome. I love him. He’s so funny 😂 And Az is still my favourite
- Gwyn and Emerie are *chefs kiss* perfect
- Feyre and Rhys should of been in the book more
- Everyone said that now hate Rhys, but I disagree…Rhy was always wary of Nesta and vis versa, of course his not gonna be warm to Nesta? But also in saying that there was a lot of times Rhys was nice in this book that people seem to just overlook…
- Nesta having friends is awesome and made me happy for her
- The storyline in general was SOOOOOO SLOW. I didn’t care about what was happening in all honesty.
And yeah. That’s all my thoughts. If not most of them 😂
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment