A review by reading_diaries
A Court of Silver Flames (Graphic Audio Part 1 & 2) by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Nesta is so unlikable I want to punch her. She's so defiant and narcissistic that she can't even fathom the concept of empathy and kindness, WHICH EVERYONE ELSE FUCKING HAS GIVEN HER. Cassian is so god damn patient, praise him. Nesta's flaws and lack of accountability are the slow reason why I will forever be a Nesta hater, how do you continuously be a bad person, notice how it's affecting others and still pull the same shit? The fact that she was continuously painting Feyre as the villain when it was Feyre who was always protecting her sisters, feeding her sisters, sheltering them and Nesta still has the fucking audacity to have Feyre pay her rent and while she does absolutely nothing.

Cassian. My man, Cassian. I loved your perspective but homeboy run. The whole relationship was quite toxic and it's annoying how Cassian was ready to break all the rules for her. Risk death for a woman who's been nothing but a bitch to YOUR family that openly welcomed her? No chance my man.

The only good part about this book is
the rite. Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie do what no woman has done before...wow big shock. Realistically, they would have died, for sure. They get months (if that) of practice and then they just fucking survive and beat all the men? Yeah sure okay. While I do like the fact that they have decided to be valkyries and rebuild the female warrior group, I think there's so much sexism in this book that was so unneeded and the plot line would have worked better without it.


Can we talk about the pacing of this book? 20 hours...20 FUCKING HOURS AND THE MOST INTERESTING PART HAPPENED IN THE LAST 20(ISH)% OF THE BOOK?!?!?!?!?!? This book (like all Sarah J Maas) books was comedically too long.. You could have cut this into a 6 hour book and it would have been so much fucking better. There's so much of nothing happening, of repetition that doesn't amount to nothing, of Nesta's annoying fucking personality to warrant 20 hours. Waste of time, thank god I read it on 2.5 speed or else I would have died.
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