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A review by eemilycolleen
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
5.0
THAT'S MORE LIKE IT, AMIRITE LADIES!!!! writing this review tipsy feels right; let's get into it. SJM, you crazy bitch, you GOT me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i feel utterly bamboozled and still REELING at how swept into adoration & frenzy i became. truly, truly, TRULY one of the most passionately fun, exhilarating books i've read in YEARS. whatever drugs sarah put in this book, it worked on me. when i read acotar last week i was like, lol this book is goofy, and reading this i am like: lol this book is goofy and i'll sell my entire soul for it.
it's over-the-top and proud of it; it's the straightest romance novel alive; and yes, yes, i am here to tell you, it is, as the poets say, a fucking masterpiece. it's the harrowing, disgusting, bone-aching process of picking yourself up after shattering. call me a sucker, but above all, i was most taken with just one motif, which really encompassed the heart of the book for me: feyre's painting, her constantly shifting relationship with art in the midst of pain and healing. this is very much a story about the repercussions of abuse, and how we move within and through and around trauma, and i found myself genuinely moved every time feyre thought so tentatively about wanting to paint again one day, and especially when she finally does. (yeah, fuck you, the scene where they fuck on the paints made me emotional. i'm a romantic! sue me!) and in that same vein — there's this one scene around the halfway mark that's like a first date, and it ends in such triumph; and the triumph isn't sex or anticipating sex or EVEN dreaming of the hot faery boy across the hall — it's a nightmare of the atter hurting her, and her sleeping through the night anyway. it's not that the bad things stop happening, or stop bothering you; it's that they stop controlling your every move. you start being able to sleep.
it just feels so clear to me that this is the story SJM really wanted to tell, and maybe i’m simple, but it meant a lot to me. I BELIEVE IN THE POSSIBILITY OF HEALING!!!!!!!!!!!!! i really do.
some details because you simply CAN'T appreciate acomaf without the details!
- "you said i could be a weapon. teach me to become one."
- "you sent that music into my cell. why?" / "because you were breaking, and i couldn't find another way to save you."
- good lord when he describes falling in love with her when she flipped him off because "for the first time in decades, i wanted to laugh"??? kill me, thanks
- "we deserve each other, and we deserve to be happy." IT'S REALLY THAT SIMPLE, ISN'T IT.
it's over-the-top and proud of it; it's the straightest romance novel alive; and yes, yes, i am here to tell you, it is, as the poets say, a fucking masterpiece. it's the harrowing, disgusting, bone-aching process of picking yourself up after shattering. call me a sucker, but above all, i was most taken with just one motif, which really encompassed the heart of the book for me: feyre's painting, her constantly shifting relationship with art in the midst of pain and healing. this is very much a story about the repercussions of abuse, and how we move within and through and around trauma, and i found myself genuinely moved every time feyre thought so tentatively about wanting to paint again one day, and especially when she finally does. (yeah, fuck you, the scene where they fuck on the paints made me emotional. i'm a romantic! sue me!) and in that same vein — there's this one scene around the halfway mark that's like a first date, and it ends in such triumph; and the triumph isn't sex or anticipating sex or EVEN dreaming of the hot faery boy across the hall — it's a nightmare of the atter hurting her, and her sleeping through the night anyway. it's not that the bad things stop happening, or stop bothering you; it's that they stop controlling your every move. you start being able to sleep.
it just feels so clear to me that this is the story SJM really wanted to tell, and maybe i’m simple, but it meant a lot to me. I BELIEVE IN THE POSSIBILITY OF HEALING!!!!!!!!!!!!! i really do.
some details because you simply CAN'T appreciate acomaf without the details!
- "you said i could be a weapon. teach me to become one."
- "you sent that music into my cell. why?" / "because you were breaking, and i couldn't find another way to save you."
- good lord when he describes falling in love with her when she flipped him off because "for the first time in decades, i wanted to laugh"??? kill me, thanks
- "we deserve each other, and we deserve to be happy." IT'S REALLY THAT SIMPLE, ISN'T IT.