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A review by popthebutterfly
A Court of Frost and Starlight [Dramatized Adaptation] #3.5 by Sarah J. Maas
3.0
Disclaimer: I bought this book. Support your authors! All opinions are my own.
Book: A Court of Frost and Starlight
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Book Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses 3.5
Rating: 3/5
Spice: 2/5
Diversity: Possible non-binary character (you could read them like that or as a fictional creature who has no true concept of sexuality and gender).
Recommended For...: Adult Readers, Romance, Fantasy, Romantasy, New Adult, Novella, Christmas
Publication Date: May 1, 2018
Genre: Romantasy
Age Relevance: 18+ (violence, sexual content, romance, death, parental death, PCOS, PTSD, depression, survivors guilt, alcohol consumption)
Explanation of Above: There is some violence, parental death, and death that are mentioned briefly. Sexual content and romance are shown in the book. Depression and survivor’s guilt and PTSD are shown and discussed. There is some alcohol consumption shown and mentioned. There is some PCOS or something of the like mentioned.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 232
Synopsis: Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly altered world beyond, recovering from the war that changed everything. But Winter Solstice is finally approaching, and with it, the joy of a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated-scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.
Review: The last true book we’ll get from Feyre’s POV and I’m not that sad about it to be honest. I thought that the transition from her POV to Nesta and Cassian’s was well done, but I also thought that it had been a long time coming to be honest. You can’t keep writing about the same character when their own arc is completely done and there is no further room for growth and I think we reached that with Feyre. I loved how the book used multi-POV to explore many different perspectives in this book and I loved the cute little transitional story to get us from the last days of the war to a few months after it’s ended for a new story to settle in. The world building was fairly decent and the character development was good. I am excited to see what Nesta holds in her arc!
The only thing I have to fault the book on was that… it’s kinda really a nothing book. There wasn’t really a need for this story outside of needing something transitional and to sell a “Christmas special” story. The book also had some really weird plots in it, like the snowball fight, it was way too long for the nothing-ness it brought, and it was just kinda weird overall once you think about it.
Verdict: It was cute and snowy.