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A review by tanya_tate
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
4.0
Four Stars! You can read it on my blog!
Spoilers!
Actually that was better than ACOWAR but no way as near as good as ACOMAF. Honestly, I don't think SJM can top herself when it comes to ACOMAF. Maybe with Nesta/Cassian upcoming book but I'll get into that later. lol To me this novella give us things that we were missing in ACOWAR, Granted ACoWAR was a 700 page monster dealing with a war they were trying to prevent but the ending didn't feel compete to me. It didn't turn the series over from Feyre/ Rhys' hands to other amazing character hands. ACOFAS did exactly that and so much more. I will tell you this. ACOFAS was honestly the make/break for me. I was going to either stay with the series and read the other three books or cut my loses and part ways with the series. Needless to say after a very rocky start,I decide to stay with the series for reasons. lol
So basically this review is going to be composted of little mini rants either dealing with the characters, the writing or the fandom's bullshit leading up to the days on it's release. It maybe a little paragraphs or they maybe huge. ( I'm going to tell you now that Tamlin's paragraph is probably going to be massive along with Rhys cause of the bullshit that was thrown his way) Trumblr becomes an hell hole every time SJM is about to release a book. So lets hop to it.
Some people say that it's not any plot in this which I disagree.It may not be as plot heavy as the other three books but lets face it. This novella is almost like a Doctor Who Christmas special with us seeing how the Inner Circle clique is doing and being happy. It doesn't have some deep "lets find this to stop this" overarching plot in it. It's a simple "let the clique enjoy their first Christmas together after the war while drinking and eating themselves silly while exchanging gifts and playing a snowball fight" plot. What it does do sets up plot for the next coming books. One major plot line that I can't wait to see is the tension in the Illyrian war camps. That can be a dozy if they deiced to declare mutiny on the Night Court and Rhys and Cassian would have an freaking mess on their hands. ( Can't wait to see what Nesta is going to do lol). The other is the ongoing plot with the Queens. It wasn't really there but it still talked about and it sound like Mor my handle that. The other is dealing with Lucien which going to be interesting. Like I said before and probably will be saying throughout out this review. This was a set up novella. ONLY A SET UP! If you expect a over reaching plot in 200 page where certain characters ( cough Nesta and Mor as well) find how to coupe with their pain and raise above it, than you don't know how Sarah Janet Maas operate. In her regular novels, she just getting warmed up in 200 pages. Shit Look at Chaol's story. They supposed to have been only a novella and look what happen? It turned into a freaking novel and is considered as the sixth book of the Throne of Glass Series.
Lets go to the characters
Feyre
Feyre is still one of my fave characters in ACOTAR but in this one, I didn't know if I want to still hug her or tell her to please stay out of people's business. After I almost fell asleep on one of chapters.... Yeah... I'm happy that she's painting again and was able to meet a friend which they was able to open a painting school per se. Also she did more than shop for the only damn book people which some people claim she did.
Rhys
Darling Rhysie
I loved his pov chapters but sometimes he got an eyeroll out of me cause sometimes he was an horndog in the early part of his chapters. We get it. You love Feyre and want to be in her but not every fucking min boy! seesh! Claim yourself down dear. But his chapters interacting with Tamlin!! Baby! He every freaking right to off on Tamlin! He deserved every damn word cause while he down, he still insulted Illyrains and call them brutes. ( People forgot about that.) Since Tamiln is “broken” which it’s he’s own damn fault he lost everything people are like “Poor little TamTam! Mean old Rhysand is such an asshole for gloating and telling you things that you need to hear even tho you would have done the same. You are just broken and need redemption and love. “Now if he wasn’t like that people would have been like” Kick his ass Rhys"since a lot of people after Acomaf wanted them to get into it. Rhys had every right to go off on his ass cause the shit he said was not only because of Feyre but because of Mom and sister. He even admitted to Feyre that he should have been the bigger man which Feyre was like “Hey It’s OK!” So many people want Tamlin to get redeemed while I’m like Feyre. Really don’t give a shit about him anymore cause he played part in the story and then continue to act like an ass. But people really though that Rhys wad not going to gloat and tell his ass off, yall don’t know Rhys at all. I wanted them to fight so bad and for Rhys to level that house. Honestly Rhys is the bigger male cause he did go back to the house to feed his sorry ass.
Tamlin
TamTam
Dear
I should feel sorry for you but I really don't like I said above cause you played yourself.
You really can take your sorry excuse for a Fae somewhere and die in a hole for all I care.
YOU DO NOT ACT THE HUBSAND OF THE PERSON YOU DID WRONG IF WILL THEY EVER FORGIVE YOU! YOU DIDN'T ASK THEM PERSON DIRECTLY FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS WHICH YOU COULD HAVE DONE IN ACOWAR!
He could have asked Feyre for her forgiveness but he didn't so...
Now one thing I did like which I don't no one pick up on is that SJM actually alluded back to Beauty and the Beast with Tamlin which evertyh The way Tamlin was pretty much alone and trash the house is almost the same thing the beast did in the Disney version. It just west wing of the house and not the whole house.
Just Let me Rant for a Second cause this whole Rhys/Tam got me hot ( I told yall this is going to be more of a rant than a review)
How come some people where so quick to say “Oh Tamlin just still upset for what happened so it’s understandable why he acted like that. He was just hurting. ” when he acted an pure salty asshole at the High Lord Meeting in ACOWAR but some people are so quick to give Rhys the 5th degree for saying the things he said to Tamlin ALONE in ACOFAS??
How come it was acceptable for Tamlin to let his emotions out which he never have to control of and slam Feyre by indirectly calling her a whore twice in front of everyone? While Rhys who always held his emotions together even tho he struggle a little and let them slide when he was ALONE with Tamlin? Who honestly had every little right to be still pissed off at the person who stole the location of his mom and sister and almost destroyed the love of his life?
I’m not getting this???
Just because Tamlin was in a self -created pity party is the reason why Rhys get criticize for letting things he really needed to say out to him in a private matter?? That he let his emotions out and then felt bad after he did it?
That he actually he should have said those things in the High Lord Meeting but he didn’t cause he knew he need all the High Lords help and knew when it was a time and place to let personal business and feelings out?
I’m sorry but you don’t get a pass from acting like an asshole in front of your peers while the other guy knew how to keep his emotions in check until it was the right time to show it. Aka in a one on one meeting where no one else was there.
All and All It was better than ACOWAR and I'm excited for the fourth one!
Spoilers!
Actually that was better than ACOWAR but no way as near as good as ACOMAF. Honestly, I don't think SJM can top herself when it comes to ACOMAF. Maybe with Nesta/Cassian upcoming book but I'll get into that later. lol To me this novella give us things that we were missing in ACOWAR, Granted ACoWAR was a 700 page monster dealing with a war they were trying to prevent but the ending didn't feel compete to me. It didn't turn the series over from Feyre/ Rhys' hands to other amazing character hands. ACOFAS did exactly that and so much more. I will tell you this. ACOFAS was honestly the make/break for me. I was going to either stay with the series and read the other three books or cut my loses and part ways with the series. Needless to say after a very rocky start,I decide to stay with the series for reasons. lol
So basically this review is going to be composted of little mini rants either dealing with the characters, the writing or the fandom's bullshit leading up to the days on it's release. It maybe a little paragraphs or they maybe huge. ( I'm going to tell you now that Tamlin's paragraph is probably going to be massive along with Rhys cause of the bullshit that was thrown his way) Trumblr becomes an hell hole every time SJM is about to release a book. So lets hop to it.
Some people say that it's not any plot in this which I disagree.It may not be as plot heavy as the other three books but lets face it. This novella is almost like a Doctor Who Christmas special with us seeing how the Inner Circle clique is doing and being happy. It doesn't have some deep "lets find this to stop this" overarching plot in it. It's a simple "let the clique enjoy their first Christmas together after the war while drinking and eating themselves silly while exchanging gifts and playing a snowball fight" plot. What it does do sets up plot for the next coming books. One major plot line that I can't wait to see is the tension in the Illyrian war camps. That can be a dozy if they deiced to declare mutiny on the Night Court and Rhys and Cassian would have an freaking mess on their hands. ( Can't wait to see what Nesta is going to do lol). The other is the ongoing plot with the Queens. It wasn't really there but it still talked about and it sound like Mor my handle that. The other is dealing with Lucien which going to be interesting. Like I said before and probably will be saying throughout out this review. This was a set up novella. ONLY A SET UP! If you expect a over reaching plot in 200 page where certain characters ( cough Nesta and Mor as well) find how to coupe with their pain and raise above it, than you don't know how Sarah Janet Maas operate. In her regular novels, she just getting warmed up in 200 pages. Shit Look at Chaol's story. They supposed to have been only a novella and look what happen? It turned into a freaking novel and is considered as the sixth book of the Throne of Glass Series.
Lets go to the characters
Feyre
Feyre is still one of my fave characters in ACOTAR but in this one, I didn't know if I want to still hug her or tell her to please stay out of people's business. After I almost fell asleep on one of chapters.... Yeah... I'm happy that she's painting again and was able to meet a friend which they was able to open a painting school per se. Also she did more than shop for the only damn book people which some people claim she did.
Rhys
Darling Rhysie
I loved his pov chapters but sometimes he got an eyeroll out of me cause sometimes he was an horndog in the early part of his chapters. We get it. You love Feyre and want to be in her but not every fucking min boy! seesh! Claim yourself down dear. But his chapters interacting with Tamlin!! Baby! He every freaking right to off on Tamlin! He deserved every damn word cause while he down, he still insulted Illyrains and call them brutes. ( People forgot about that.) Since Tamiln is “broken” which it’s he’s own damn fault he lost everything people are like “Poor little TamTam! Mean old Rhysand is such an asshole for gloating and telling you things that you need to hear even tho you would have done the same. You are just broken and need redemption and love. “Now if he wasn’t like that people would have been like” Kick his ass Rhys"since a lot of people after Acomaf wanted them to get into it. Rhys had every right to go off on his ass cause the shit he said was not only because of Feyre but because of Mom and sister. He even admitted to Feyre that he should have been the bigger man which Feyre was like “Hey It’s OK!” So many people want Tamlin to get redeemed while I’m like Feyre. Really don’t give a shit about him anymore cause he played part in the story and then continue to act like an ass. But people really though that Rhys wad not going to gloat and tell his ass off, yall don’t know Rhys at all. I wanted them to fight so bad and for Rhys to level that house. Honestly Rhys is the bigger male cause he did go back to the house to feed his sorry ass.
Tamlin
TamTam
Dear
I should feel sorry for you but I really don't like I said above cause you played yourself.
You really can take your sorry excuse for a Fae somewhere and die in a hole for all I care.
YOU DO NOT ACT THE HUBSAND OF THE PERSON YOU DID WRONG IF WILL THEY EVER FORGIVE YOU! YOU DIDN'T ASK THEM PERSON DIRECTLY FOR THEIR FORGIVENESS WHICH YOU COULD HAVE DONE IN ACOWAR!
He could have asked Feyre for her forgiveness but he didn't so...
Now one thing I did like which I don't no one pick up on is that SJM actually alluded back to Beauty and the Beast with Tamlin which evertyh The way Tamlin was pretty much alone and trash the house is almost the same thing the beast did in the Disney version. It just west wing of the house and not the whole house.
Just Let me Rant for a Second cause this whole Rhys/Tam got me hot ( I told yall this is going to be more of a rant than a review)
How come some people where so quick to say “Oh Tamlin just still upset for what happened so it’s understandable why he acted like that. He was just hurting. ” when he acted an pure salty asshole at the High Lord Meeting in ACOWAR but some people are so quick to give Rhys the 5th degree for saying the things he said to Tamlin ALONE in ACOFAS??
How come it was acceptable for Tamlin to let his emotions out which he never have to control of and slam Feyre by indirectly calling her a whore twice in front of everyone? While Rhys who always held his emotions together even tho he struggle a little and let them slide when he was ALONE with Tamlin? Who honestly had every little right to be still pissed off at the person who stole the location of his mom and sister and almost destroyed the love of his life?
I’m not getting this???
Just because Tamlin was in a self -created pity party is the reason why Rhys get criticize for letting things he really needed to say out to him in a private matter?? That he let his emotions out and then felt bad after he did it?
That he actually he should have said those things in the High Lord Meeting but he didn’t cause he knew he need all the High Lords help and knew when it was a time and place to let personal business and feelings out?
I’m sorry but you don’t get a pass from acting like an asshole in front of your peers while the other guy knew how to keep his emotions in check until it was the right time to show it. Aka in a one on one meeting where no one else was there.
All and All It was better than ACOWAR and I'm excited for the fourth one!