a court of silver flames pissed me OFF
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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Also for people who were soooo against everything Nesta was doing when she slept around and got drunk, Cass and Rhys sure love to brag about the exact same shit. Like babe-
OMG yes
I completely agree! The Inner Circle never has to apologize or experience consequences for their shitty behavior, but for some reason Nesta has to. It makes them into hypocrites.
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I used to love Rhys. I thought of him as this amazing feminist king. I now realize he is a jerk and a pick me boy.
@Kirschner Ova I’m gonna join you 😂
Well he’s better than tamlin. So I can tolerate him bring a jerk.
What pisses me off the most is that SJM thinks we’re idiots!
LMAO
the best thing about this book was the magical house
As someone who loved the sweet Tamlin who just wanted to play music, stood up to mass murderers, was excited to have art in his home again, defended the underdogs, was kind to humans and lesser fey, and loved and protected Feyre while still giving her freedom... I AM CACKLING AT ALL THE TRIGGERED RHYS STANS AFTER ACOSF.
For years people have said some mess like “actually, SJM didn’t ruin his character, there we’re hints at his controlling, abusive tendencies all along.” NOW, I can say the same about Rhys by citing shit that happened under the mountain in ACOTAR, quoting some things he said in ACOMAF and ACOWAR, and pointing out his treatment of Nesta during the Winter Solstice scene in ACOFAS.
The truth is, SJM doesn’t know how to build up/generate sympathy for a character without ruining the competition/their antagonist.
In ACOMAF Tamlin was competition for the readers affection and he was Rhys’s antagonist, so SJM destroyed him in every conceivable way (some ways legit included some the retconning of his prior personality), so we would love and pity Rhys.
In ACOSF, SJM needed readers to be completely in love with Cassian and not miss Rhys. She also needed readers to sympathize/side with Nesta, so we’d root for her. She accomplished both by turning Rhys into the very thing Feyre left Tamlin to get away from and having him be legit abusive to Nesta. (Yet, strangely, SJM doesn’t want us to hold any of Rhys’s actions against him, so she altered Feyre’s behavior to make her tolerant of him and had Nesta apologize at the end, accepting blame, indicating that she was the only bad guy.)
Anyhoo, I’m just waiting to see who gets ruined next. I’m predicting Az is getting the next book, so SJM is going to do what she does best and give him the biggest dick (bigger than Tamlin, Rhys, or Cassian), she’s going to villainize Lucian (who has handeled the mate situation with nothing but patience and respect), and possibly even continue to have Rhys be an antagonist in his life. I doubt she’ll really address the Mor situation though. Ever since SJM made Mor bisexual to please fans asking for LGBT+ rep, she doesn’t seem interested in Mor’s character or resolving any of her past conflict. So she pretended the Nesta/Cassian/Mor situation didn’t exit, and she’s had Az completely drop feelings he’s been harboring for five centuries all because a cute girl who like gardening moved in. Who knows though, I’d LOVE to be wrong.
if she ruins Lucien I'm going to be very very angry. SAME Sarah really doesn't care about More anymore. azriel's POV is gonna give me a headache I already feel it
SAME! I’ll legit riot if she ruins Lucian, and I’m already nervous about the Az book. I probs shouldn’t read it, but I know I will lol.
Yo I am literally cackling at your post. Cuz you are sooo right!! They did Tamlin so wrong but now look at them. Everyone ignored Rhys drugging the shit out of Feyre and making her do weird sexual shit. But Tamlin is the bad guy now ? Okay
Same!!!
Even I felt that sympathy for Tamlin while others were just giving him hate comments.... personally I felt justice was really not given to characters..so I couldn't fully enjoy romance of Rhys and Feyra as a bad feeling for Tamlin was there....he was destroyed because of loving her....and she destroyed him.
@@slaonestephens7575 finally someone sees how contradicting the writer is. She doesn't know how to build up character. The most annoying thing about tamlin's character is the fact everyone else can go on living after they did some terrible things. Almost the whole cast is guilty but they keep acting like tamlin is pure evil. I know he did some terrible things and it was hinted he had anger issues, stubborn asf in court of thorns and Roses but who doesn't have issues in this series? Tamlin's flaws magnified when he was dealing with PTSD. However, everyone else gets a pass for their inexcusable sins. Make it make sense. Also, I feel so bad for lucien, I can't wait to see how his character is destroyed especially after he lost everything. Lucien deserves some happiness after witnessing how his lover died and from dealing with his terrible father and siblings. Why does he have to endure unrequited love? His character is one of the decent ones in my opinion.
“They’re so old but they’re so stupid.” Yes!!!
I think Nesta and Eris had so much Chemistry and I wish she would have agreed to marry him while she had all that power, just to be spiteful toward Rhys! Rhys cowards like a kicked puppy around her power. Can you imagine.............. So much more conflict and........ That would have been so much better.
THEY DIDDD DIDNT THEY!! i was lowkey shipping it
And don’t get me started on Az’s pov, I hated that Rhysand didn’t let Az nor Elain have a choice, and for politics?! Ugh where’s the “you always have a choice” guy? It only seems he’s like that with Feyre
And like you, I was mad that Az’s personality trait was reduced to being horny, romance it’s not only about smut, I especially expected Az to be the exception
Exactly he always talking about “you got a choice “wholeee timeee it’s not a choice at all
THANK YOU! Literally was so disappointed bc in the previous books Az was written as the like casual-cool quiet badass who doesn’t have time to just act and think like Cassian, but then he’s written as Cassian 2.0. I could complain ab this all day like please just don’t let him be like Cassian in his own book. I mean even Cassian was fine in the previous books she literally just made everyone horny in acosf.
Does Feyre REALLY have a choice, or did he take away all of her choices except 2/3 choices which will be good for him and told her to pick one from those choices because " It's your choice".??
The first time I gave up on the whole inner circle was when they planned to attack Hybern after the whole Velaris destruction thing. I mean BRO YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT 500 YEARS OLD PEOPLE DON’T MAKE PLAN B?!!!!!!!!!! It was dumb🤦🏻♀️ they were all so dumb. I make attests 4 plans before invading my mom’s bedroom to steal my phone back. Tbh I hate how they act like saints. Bro get over it no ones perfect.
HAHAHAH NOT STEALING YOUR PHONE BACK FROM UR MOMS BEDROOM that’s so me lmao
I feel like tamlin deserves a redemaction arck
sarah said in an interview that she doesn’t even know whether he *deserves* a redemption arc. she’s apparently talking to survivors of abuse about this. i personally think that tamlin was severely antagonised in the second book just to make rhys the hero but yeah,,
@@ayeshah.6234 the thing is Rhys sexually assaulted Feyra but they never talk about this
He doesn’t need an arc, he just needs to be retconned into a good guy just like he was retconned into a bad guy lol
Amen to everything you said plus wtf was up w the whole "shield" around Feyre like she didn't even want it and in previous books it's been made pretty clear that Feyre is more than capable of defending herself and is equally powerful as Rhys if not more
I think the shield was initially to keep the scent of feyres pregnancy hidden
sara j maas destroyed tamlin and now rhys ??? hope in the next books the same thing wont happen to lucien ...
Am I the only one who got Stephan Salvatore vibes from Tamlin throughout the feyre series of acotar
This book is not in Nesta's pov. It's third person omniscient. We get moments that Nesta is not there for and the characters act the same. Honestly, and this is gonna be hard to hear but, this book is the most unbiased look we've had of Feyre, Rhys and the IC. We've been in Feyre's first person limited pov for 4 straight books. If you reread the books and look at Feyre's actions alone and think of how they effect others, she's horrible. So unfortunately, readers have been duped by the rose tint Feyre sees herself, Rhys and the IC.
This is one of the reasons I like this book cause most readers seemed to be conflicted with the bias point of view from the first books. This book was the least biased to me.
I'm not sure Maas did that on purpose.
I don’t think it’s omniscient, but rather third person limited. It switches from nesta to cassian the whole book, but never to a nameless, all-knowing narrator
1. I loved Nesta's development and her journey was so raw and beautiful and uniquely her.
2. I loved the smut but I wish Cassian and Nesta would have gotten more bonding moments as a couple.
3. Rhys pissed me off so much in this book.
4. Amren pissed me off in this book.
5. Lucien is perfect and Elain doesn't deserve him.
6. Azriel is perfect and Elain doesn't deserve him either.
7. I loved Gwyn and Emerie.
8. Feyre was so out of character in this book.
9. The Inner Circle (excluding Az) pissed me off in regards to Nesta in this book. Like, I get that she doesn't make it easy to care about her but they didn't have to verbally abuse her, punish her for not knowing how to deal with her trauma healthily, ignore her trauma, force her to do things she doesn't want to do, etc.
10. I hated Cass and Nesta being mates. I just wanted them to choose each other and be in love. Choosing to love someone is so much more compelling, especially in a world where an outside force chooses your soulmate for you.
11. I hate Elain. I usually like female characters who are softer and don't have to pick up a sword or learn to fight to be strong or badass. I like Yrene and Elide from TOG who are similar to Elain (don't fight, still badass) but I just hate Elain for some reason.
That's all for now.
Also, I was disappointed that we didn't get to learn more about Nesta, Feyre, and Elain's mom and I wanted to see more of their dynamic as sisters. I wanted to not only see Nesta heal, but the sisters to heal their bond as well and I didn't get that.
@@zi2651 I have never agreed with another fan more lol I agree with every single one of those points! Elain’s entire character is just i garden and I’m so glad someone sees that Lucien and azriel are so much better
@@gurpreet0910 Finally somebody agrees me with me! Elain justs irks me and I don't know why. Maybe it's the other characters treating her like some delicate flower when she's a grown ass woman who can take care of her self and chooses not to or maybe it's the way she treats Lucien. It could be both tbh.
@@zi2651 yeah I’m so happy in this book nesta didn’t protect her like she was some 5 year old and I honestly hate her treatment of Lucien... she could a least talk to him he’s not like revolting and actually cares but doesn’t force the mate bond or whatever
I AGREE W ALL OF THIS
the only thing I appreciated about this book is nesta's mental health journey. the rest was questionable. the entire inner circle felt like totally different characters. the majority of their actions made no sense and contradicted what we've seen from them in the previous acotar books.
When the characters do things and say things that make SO LITTLE SENSE that the book stops being canon in your mind
That’s what this book did to me
it's not cannon at ALL for me
OMG thank you for saying this. i wanted the feysand romance as well. you described it perfectly.... it went : sexual tension, sex, mate, “i love you” there was little to no romantic scenes just: more sex.... and that’s fine but i feel like it could’ve been so much more.
EXACTLY!
I mean...smut scenes are fun, but I read this book and was like “but DO they really love each other though?” We didn’t really get any sweet romantic scenes and that was disappointing.
Sex does not equal romance.
My hot take is that if you are only a good person with the people you love or your little perfect (lmao) friend group, you are NOT a good person AT ALL (ahem Rhysand)
The blood rite felt very hunger games to me. It’s like SJM couldn’t come up with her own ideas so she just copied bits from other hit YA books. First breaking dawn then the hunger games lol
When will everyone realise that Sarah J Maas is not a good author. She just panders and panders to her own fantasies. She doesn't care about her readers. She never dives deep with any issues. All of her books are devoid of substance and when this realization clicks, her books become completely unbearable to read. At least this is what happened to me. I can't read her books anymore without cringing every two pages.
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I've decided not to read any more books by her. Not worth slogging through nearly thousands of pages to read about a bunch of entitled brats. People who love her books and think her protagonists are good people are the people who worship the grounds the Kardashians and Jenners walk on even after them doing atrocious shits all the time. So basically, people without critical thinking skills.
@@zishatanzila8474That's the ture tea right there,lol.
@@zishatanzila8474 I've never thought her books were feminist. More like advocate for being entitled and self-absorbed. She makes her protagonists narcissists and then says they're strong and confident. In truth they'd be very horrible people irl.
My problem is I KNOW she’s not a good author. It was obvious from the first book I read, and yet I still can’t stop reading her books.
Like the inconsistent characterizations, weak world building, lack of proper editing, repetitive language, recycled plots, overuse of telling instead of showing, messy pacing, and manipulative writing style all gives me a headache.
And yet.... I can’t stop reading them! Obviously there’s SOMETHING about them I enjoy, I just don’t know what. Never in my life have I given so many 2-Star reviews to an author and then STILL continued to spend money on their books. Maybe I’m just a masochist lol. Or maybe I just see the potential in her characters and her world and I just keep hoping that she’ll actually.... try?
Ahh this book makes my blood boil! I agree with all the criticisms you’ve made. All the women (I refuse to use male/female) in this series are sidelined and weakened so that the men can remain powerful. The whole pregnancy plot makes me uncomfortable, particularly the fact that Feyre has to go through such a traumatic experience at 22. Also, it’s unsettling how the age difference between her and her baby is nothing compared to her and Rhysand. There is such a huge power imbalance between them, and she’s just so young to be going through all this. She is literally living the life that she ran away from in the Spring Court.
As for Rhysand, I hate him with every fiber of my being at this point. I really enjoyed his character in the first and second book, but now he’s just a sleazy, controlling hypocrite, and I genuinely find him worse than Tamlin. I hate the fact that Nesta had to lose her powers so he could remain the strongest character.
Also hate how SJM reduced the Inner Circle to a bunch of horny, holier-than-thou jerks. Azriel is my favourite character (which isn’t saying much, considering the other options), but I probably won’t read a sequel about him, because I know Sarah would ruin the character for me. The extra chapter is proof enough of that.
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@@momowoods2859 ty it’s nice to know someone understands my frustration lol
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Waiiitttt she Lost her power ??? Please explain
@@teamonibradley2335 Yup, Nesta gave up her power to save Feyre from dying after her pregnancy, and Amren lost her power at the end of ACOWAR.
Nesta had to give ip her power to "deserve" a portrait of herself in her sister's house
Agreed, I feel like someone put my thoughts into words and I can rest in peace.
At the end I felt second hand embarrassment when Nesta apologized because she really didn't have too
I wanted Cassian to ask Rhys if it had been Feyre in the Blood Rite would he really not go after her? ugh. Bc you know ACOWAR Rhys would never just sit around waiting for a week to see if Feyre made it out of the Blood Rite alive. He would have done something to save her. And I agree about Cassian not really acting with Mate qualities when it came to defending Nesta and just following Rhy's orders. And yeah, it doesn't make sense that no one else sensed their mating bond (although i guess they could have and just not told Nesta bc she needed to realize it in her own time. Like Feyre did.)
I didn't hate the Blood Rite plot line, but I felt like I was reading the hunger games lol.
I think that we didn't learn much about Gwyn and Emerie in this book bc it was just kind of laying the groundwork. In the end we learned what the trauma was that they went through. I think in the next two books we'll learn a lot more about them and they'll get more interesting. Same with Elain. I think she'll eventually get a more interesting background. It kind of showed that through Cassian's POV that Elain wasn't just a dog following nesta around; that she was paying attention to everything. So I think the next book we'll learn more about her too. I think it will be a love triangle between her, Lucien and Az. Which would be interesting.
omg right ???? the way Cassian just did other duties while nesta was probs gonna die lol. Rhys defo would've done something
This book made me like Nesta and hate Elaine. She was giving me Taryn from TFOTA vibes 🥶
Ikr!!! Tbh I always likes Nests she doesn’t pretend to be better. She owes up to her actions. If they are horrible she calls herself horrible. Unlike everyone else in the book who either have victim mentality or fancy themselves as saints
I used to like Rhys buuut in this book he got me irritated tbh. Every time he appears, Feyre is always brought up.
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He made that lovesick bargain which put Feyre, the baby and himself in danger, it's dumb.
Yes! Rhys even told Feyre in ACOWAR (I think it was) that females didn't have to accept the mating bond - that it was their choice. Ugh. Ok this is my last comment. I'm so sorry I've left so many and they're all so long😂
EXACTLYYYYYYYY. no problem I love long comments!
FINALLY someone’s talking about thisss, I agree with everything, I am so disappointed at ACOSF, Nessian is the reason I started reading ACOTAR in the first place and to read their book and not seeing the same characters as before it’s disappointing, we saw a Nesta that didn’t have the same essence as before, being submissive and having to apologize for things she did no wrong, we didn’t see Cassian’a character nor development, and I also HATE Rhysand, I remember having to put down the book and look for reviews to see if I’m wrong in this
Also, yeah I think some things were unrealistic, I like Gwyn and Emerie but I thought their friendship a bit childish and, as you said, their characters are now reduced to their trauma and who their mate would be
the way Feyre acted WOULD NEVER have happened
It was so out of character I don’t even count it
I do think Nesta has to answer for a lot of things she’s done but it was just so weird that the inner circle was so shitty to her like realistically they would be her number one supporters if this book was cohesive to the characters in the OG trilogy
I feel like this book ruined the Inner Circle for me
EXACTLY
Also Elain was very insensitive to Nesta claiming to love her. Elain came to meet her but ended up insulting her more.
Nesta let her home as a point of meeting with the queens and faced consequences for it but no one apologize for it
i agree with all of this! nesta has always been my fav character in the acotar series even since book 1, she just has so much depth. i was so excited for this book because the sisters' journey to learning to trust and depend on each other again had been building for 3.5 books and i was SO pissed at feyre for essentially choosing the image of herself, Rhys, and the court over her own sister. you can tell it's blatantly obvious to nesta that she is one who constantly feels left behind or given up on, like when she points out that Feyre has portraits of everyone in the river house except for one of Nesta. feyre knows what it is to struggle (she literally died at one point) so she should've been the one to recognize that pain in her own sister and empathize with it instead of punishing her for it or making her feel like a burden to her family for it. also RHYS. lowkey haven't liked him for a very long time bc he's such a surface level feminist, like yea he gave feyre the title of High Lady, but literally doesn't let her in on any decisions or info, even ones that pertain exclusively to her (keeping the danger of her pregnancy from her literally infuriated me) and i was so happy when nesta finally told her, idec. i loved the nessian aspects of this book with my whole heart because they really feel like two sides of the same coin to me, but every other character (aside from Gwyn and Emerie and the House (is it considered a character? lol)) pissed me off so much.
I thought the training thing was so she could feel stronger and more on control of her own self so she Could eventually come to get over the things she was weak against and the things that she had no control over but possibly could've.
definitely
I totally agree with you, in this book everyone acted so out of character
"Her friends"
Those people were never Nesta's friends (and because I will never read this book, they never will be) they're Feyre's friends and family.
Nesta needed to leave and live in another court, Hybern or even gone to the continent to the old Human Queens courts.
To truly grow as the fantastic anti-heroine character she was - she needed to be away from these people who literally didn't give a rat's ass about her. Acofas was the end of Nessian for me.
I feel like because you didn’t read the book you might be misunderstanding me. Nesta makes her own friends in acosf (ppl feyre doesn’t even know), so not feyre’s friends and family.
Also in the book she does step away from these people (if i remember correctly), her circle is mainly cassian and her new friends
@@thefaereader I didn't mean it in a negative way. Her friends being Illyrian/from the Night Court in general was the mistake.
Like you say later on, by the end she wasn't even Nesta anymore because in order to fit in she has to become basically Feyre 2.0.
@@thefaereader she was a great character who should have been used to explore magic, trauma and politics. It's just a waste
@@ae_neo34 i totally understand what you mean now and you’re so right 😭 she had so much more potential than what was given
I had to stop reading when i got to the point qhere Nesta reveals that Rhys and the cohort were hiding medical info from Feyre and magic info from Nesta and the book made it seem like SHE was in the wrong. 😅
It's just degrading, both ACOFrost&Starlight and ACOSliverFlames didn't have a point and messed up all the characters. If they don't have a story to continue they should have made it into a trilogy and ended it!
I agree with so much you said. I don’t understand how the Fae are these superior beings, yet where are the old wise males/females that can act as therapists or healers?
Cassian kept alluding to the fact that he’d seen his soldiers go through what Nesta was experiencing (ptsd), but I longed for him to confront her on it on a deeper level. It felt like the answer to alllll the trauma she experienced was brute force, labor, training...like if she manned up enough, she’d be better.
There were moments where they mentioned how brilliant Cassian had to be because he led so many armies into battle, but we never had an opportunity to see finesse or intellect from him, which Cassian needed. He thinks he’s a brute. SJM didn’t give us a reason to think otherwise other than one liners about how smart he had to be to plan skillful attacks against enemies.
I’m so glad I ran across your review. It’s very through. We all love ACOTAR. But so many of us gobbled it up and rejoiced without taking the time to critically think about what was happening in the story, what fell flat, what/who needed to be expanded, etc.
The thing is that this book had no plot ✋✋✋😳 LIKE IN MY OPINION I RLLY LOVE NESTA AND EVERYTHING and I loved her friendship with gwyn and emerie but THE PLOT WAS SO FORCED LMAO like they’re always tryna find magical objects and the evil queen was like sprinkled in for a few chapters then she died rlly fast tf
Truuue. The title should have been “ I’m about to disappoint you”
They should change the book title officially.😒
"a court of rhysand turned into tamlin"
@@thefaereader they might as well be related.
To be really honest i just after book 2 or like halfway through book 2 i just started hating feyre and rhysand for following reasons...
1)Sarah jusf tried too hard to justify some of their foolest actions and used the plot oh well they r the mc's so ofcourse they r the purest which was not true...
2)feyre was too much selfish like too much hse never really tried to understand the people around her she hated rhysand until he showd the soft side and cared for her she loved tamlin until he started showing trauma(in no way i m defending tamlin he was really overprotective toxic bitch)but he saved feyre putting himself at stake exposing himself+he also saved rhysand on the other hand rhysand decided to go along feyre's plan and put her at stake by sending her to spring court.
3)rhysand always thought that he can hide whatever he want just because he care and that he is doing i for his people that was just pure shit i hated him too much for the first time when he did not tell mor about that eris-keir plan
4) rhys only cared about smut after book 2 that was like their relation was not beautiful they just all they did was smut
5)rhys did not care about feyre's family....most of all nesta and i think i cant love a person who cant love my family there is no way i m gonna choose a person who does not give a shit about my sister's well being he was just rude for no reason.
6)nesta seemed rude but she always cared she saved cassian and still they even cassian did not get that she cares...if she is not crying and mourning in front of them does not mean she does not care all feyre cared about was inner circle and i just hated her for that.
7) me and nesta r both alike personality wise so i get her more than other people i prefer to be alone and i do ghost people but ik i care cause when the need me i m there nesta was the best character cause her character has depth she has potential she does not deserve these so called heroes and no one literally cares that she is the one who killed hybern she and elain
I just hate feyre and rhysand
ABSOLUTELY 10/10
and let’s talk about mor.. she became so irrelevant AND from what eros said, i think mor lied to the inner circle about what happened to her after eric’s saw her in the woods
Thank you. All of my angst and irritation all wrapped up together, confirmed and validated. I feel so much better now that I’ve watched this hahah
sometimes i think sjm can only do plot when it’s war, chaos and death, other than that it’s just good mess
I definitely agree with your critques with this book. I wonder if it could be argued that the IC didnt acknowledge the mating bond because they didnt want it to happen since they obviously didnt like Nesta. Also i still feel that Tamelin is being handled terribly and I dont care for this version of Rhys not only in his treatment of Nesta but how he manages and dictates all of them. Why is Tamelin such a terrible person when Rhys is the same?
Tam and Rhysand are the two faces of the same coin but the hardcore stans refuse to aknowledge it
I agree with every.single.point you made.
This books should have been a novella about Nesta’s healing journey, coming together with Cas (more romance and bonding), her friends and the rebuilding of her relationship with her sisters. Could have done without the pregnancy and Rhys’ meddling also, not to mention the stupid treasure hunt, the queen and the weirdo wizard dude lol.
Let's hang tight for the next book, I'm actually pissed that Elain hardly been in the book, like are we expecting the next book coming finally about her and no plot once again?
I know right
I love your video and how you pick the points no one is talking about ❤ I totally agree with you
I've almost completed ACOTAR and really wished to continue the series, BUT after hearing how much SJM is ruining some parts in the next books, "killing" characters just to make space for others simply to satisfy the story, without any point or deeper motive, I've decided to step down from it. Not just ACOTAR, but ToG as well. I deeply hate sudden changes just to create twists that are actually not needed in any sense. So... Thank you reviewers for saving my nerves and hours that I'll glad spending on other books. ^_^
tbh you definitely should still read throne of glass, it's sooo good (and worlds better than acotar). everything happens for a reason and the plot is way more complex and substantial. push through to the end (since some people aren't so hooked in the first books- unlike me lmao) YOU WONT REGRET IT😭😭😭😭
@@sophiemorley I'll give it a shot. 😊 Thanks!
I've tried to re-read ACOTAR, but dropped it again. I guess it's not for me. :/
Oh that's not out of character. Feyra has always been self-centered and only cared about other people, only in relation to how it reflects on herself and the people she deigns to care about.
You read it yourself "my friends, my family". Nesta is her biological older sister and yet she dares tell her own sister, to her face, that her friends ARE her family.
In my opinion, if Sarah J. Maas actually loves Feyra as a character she should acknowledge that Rhysand is problematic (to the point of being worse than Tamlin, holy hell) and make her pack her bags and leave.
I believe feyre has learned through her time when she was in spring court that image is something to be cautious about. Because of the image of Tamlin being destroyed by yours truly he lost the trust of his court. And that is why she was concerned about the image thing.
yea that is definitely true
Tamlin locked Feyre in a house while he was secretly looking for a way to save her (trying to find a way to break the bargain). Tamlin = Evil. Rhysand locked Feyre in a magical shield skin while he was secretly looking for a way to save her (trying to find a way to have her deliver a live heir) Rhysand = Good male. Nope. #Rhyshateclubforever
So much to unload...one sjm writes the same damn story with the same characters in all of books..she’s got a great stories but ruins it with the beating the dead horse...we didn’t need 80 chapters of nessa complaining... i want to like sjm but her writing is lacking.
Amarantha was the Best villain
I haven't read it yet but I trust your opinions on things (some of the problems you mentioned didn't surprise me, and was sort of what I was fearing). Can't wait to revisit this once I've actually read the book!
YOU TRUST MY OPINIONS asdfghjk thank you
@@thefaereader ahhaha yes, especially when it comes to acotar-related stuff!
something i find weird here is that psychiatry has existed since ancient india and greece. there were psychiatric wards during the golden age of islam. like... mental health as a concept is not as new as people think it is so it’s not at all unbelievable that these people in this old-timey world (which has flushing porcelain toilets!) would understand what PTSD is and have a better way to treat it than sending people to war camps (!). although maybe i’m being unfair since these faeries are so inept in terms of health care that they can’t even carry out a caesarean which again has been a routine (relatively safe) procedure in the great lakes region of africa since the 19th century at the very latest... the quality of the healthcare alone hints that the night court is actually a Really Bad place to live lmfao
LMAOOOO I LOVE THIS COMMENT
I'm sorry, but the excuse, "At the end of the day, it worked" doesn't function in literature. It worked because the Author wrote that it worked, whether or not it should or would realistically accomplish the goal. It needs to be more substantive. Why did it work? If it was the wrong choice to pursue her recovery, why doesn't it make her trauma worse? It seems like the author wanted the drama but not to deal with it.
OMG, I totally get your points, there is a lot of problems in acosf and it was more about Nesta and Cassian just doing it then focusing on the actual plot. I thought I was the only one thinking how similar acosf "plot" is similar to ToG and CC with finding an item lol. Overall though, I enjoyed acosf😅 and yeah Rhys is standing on that antagonist role, but I still can't help but like him. Not gonna lie though, just base on Azriel's bonus chapter I feel like Rhys will get worst in terms of his image from the first 3 books :l
I think so too and I DONT WANNA SEE HIS IMAGE GET WORSE PLSSS
Waited for this video for a long time
I’d compare Rhysand to Dutch in red dead redemption
I agree with you so much. Tbh, I thought it was a 5 star book until the end when she destroyed things. I just made my first book tube video talking about this book because I just had to get my thoughts out there. I agree with you on so many levels lol
Honestly I miss tamlin and ferye
lowkey same
Yes!! they all said so many mean things to her! and NEVER apologized. mean yes, nesta was a total bitch to them constantly, but they knew what she was going through. and even when nesta apologized to feyre in her mind it said that there was like a beat of silence, or hesitation maybe, and then feyre said she forgave her. i was like wtf? why is there a hesitation? if nesta hadn't said it she would have never found out. ugh!
i'm dying, bc i just commented to you about how it was unbelievable that all 3 sisters had mates in the same circle bc SJM said it was extremely rare!! we're on the same page so far girl😂
OMFG I don't have the extra chapter!! I have to find it somewhere right now!!😩😩
Nesta is the character I least like in this series just base on the first book. I don’t know if I’ll change my opinion about her. I don’t think this video will change my mind about Nesta. I just don’t like how the author created her character.
😱😱😱WHERE did you Get your edition Of A Court Of Silver Flames!?! It is gorgeous!!!😍😍😍
Agreeing with literally everything you mentioned, I’m not happy with all that acosf turned out to be :( I’m just tryna like justify things here and there to make it better for me lol. For instance I also had a problem that if mates were so rare, why did all the sisters find their mates all together? My theory for that is like they were all Made, their dna be different from other Fae and they all are very in-tune with the cauldron so maybe they’re like extra sensitive and can just mate easier? Bc all these people are around them so much and were there from the beginning it was just easier to sort of snap the bond in place upon them being Made. Remember how Rhysand was there when Feyre was made as well? And Cassian and Lucien were there for Nesta and Elain? Just a thought, I think it makes somewhat sense.
I think that makes sense but sjm isn't smart enough to think of it
@@thefaereader I just remembered that Cassian and Rhysand mentioned that they like knew they were mated to the girls since before they were fae so that already debunks my theory :( sjm is just obsessed with mates i guess
I just finished ACOWAR and wow I'm disappointed in everything I hear about ACOSF to the point where I think I'll shelve the series unless book 6 magically fixes everything. As someone who hit rock bottom, I hoped for a good, poignant tale about mental health and healing even though constant smut was not my jam... but man this romance sounds absolutely abysmal. All I read is that Cassian does nothing but teaches her combat, bangs her constantly, and fails to defend her from the IC whenever they go for her neck. I'm desperately looking for examples of him being a genuinely loving man towards her like he was in ACOWAR, not just a sexual outlet that gives her a pep talk every now and then. I jumped into ACOTAR for hot, passionate romance, not a boring FWB plot that leads to the most underwhelming confession I've ever seen.
I love this review! You put your thoughts perfectly together and I agree. I was so excited for this book and I enjoyed the mental health journey, the friendship and nessian but overall the book lacked a lot? I think there was no plot, the IC we’re assholes, nesta deserved better and don’t kill me but gwyn and emerie were kind of boring to me (as characters not their stories because I think they were really complex). But overall some parts felt really boring and Cassian had no development 🙃 also azriels pov created a whole war because people want him with gwyn and there’s a lot of drama
thank you!!! oh my gosh I kNOW.. there was a whole few minutes of me discussing azriel and gwyn/elain but i took it out cuz the video was too long but oh my gosh the way ppl are actually fighting over this LMAOO
What are your thoughts about that if you don’t mind me asking? I’m really curious bc safah said it’s obvious who the next book is about but gwynriels and elriels are fighting and honestly idk what to think anymore
@@heirofbooks3625 personally I feel like its pretty obvious its gonna be elriel hehe. considering the extra chapters are about them, how he bought her a gift (then told Clotho to give it to literally any priestess if not Gwyn, & it became a 2nd hand gift initially for Elain which does nothing for gwynriel's romance) and azriel let elain use truth teller which he hasn't given anyone his whole life 🥰 and theres 0 romantic moments between gwynriel throughout the whole book so I think Sarah would've fitted some in if anything was gonna happen. also the way elain "stiffens" whenever azriel is around. and Sarah would obviously write about an archeron sister over a character she just introduced
(if im wrong thats gonna be so embarrassing)
nes deserve more than this crap
today I finished reading acosf and gave it five stars, but I really agree with everything you said in this video.
thank you! ✨💜
My opinion :) Love this video though.
To be fair, Nesta didn’t give a shit about Feyre’s trauma after under the mountain too. And we hated her for being a bitch in Feyre’s POV. Also, if I have a sister who’s constantly spending my money and fucking strangers, I’d force her to go to AA too, but then again, I’m a normal human being and not fae. I think they were bluffing about throwing her into the human lands. The IC would never..
Obviously A++ for Nesta’s redemption arc.
Personally, i enjoy watching Rhys being more of a cruel high lord since they always talk about his “reputation”, so i was glad some of it showed in this book.
Would Cassian have treated Nesta the same way if she wasn’t his mate? Debatable.. sort of wished they weren’t mates? Idk man Cassian’s interest for Nesta right from the beginning(before the cauldron) makes no sense, she was a whole ass bitch in the beginning. Whereas Rhys fell in love with the human huntress who sacrificed herself to free them all. Just doesn’t add up. The smut, I thoroughly enjoyed.
Amren was not out of character at all haha The things she said in this book especially the High King part sounds like someone who has lived a millenia would say..as if she’s noticed a pattern in history. and she might be right..?
Azriel is perfect, as always.
I don’t like/care about elain at all. lmao
Lastly! The feminism part! This book mentioned feminism many times though. Literally half the book was about Nesta training to be a warrior. And the Valkyries being the first females to win the blood rite? Iconic.
Last thought: Rhys, not a good move lying to Feyre about the pregnancy man..not cool. But alas, no one’s perfect. Not even Rhysand.
Where did you get that cover of A court of silver flames?
starsthatdream on instagram!
so basically this is just a really bad and cringy nessian fanfiction
It was the worst book everrrrrr with the worst writing ugh
How did you get the old cover of Nesta?!? The one you called pretty? I can’t find it anywhere!!
starsthatdream on instagram :)
yeah I didn't realise I hated rhys this much but I hate rhys. also if anyone wants another review I made one ruclips.net/video/_OE_B4iTwpo/видео.html
Love feyre always and forever
SOMEONE TELL ME WHO DOESS TAMLIN END UP WITTHHHHH? 🥺
we don't know yet!
I feel like I really enjoyed this book despite all the things you mentioned. I really feel like SJM just enjoys spending time with her characters and in this world, and tbh so do I. But as a result the book reads like a bad fan fic
I don't get why when Feyre does something slightly wrong everyone in this fandom jumps on her but like everyone has collectively forgiven Nesta for the shit ways she treated Feyre before the books even started and then the entire time we see her??? I also kind of agree with Feyre, she may not have worded it in the best way but I dont think she could have sat back and just watched Nesta continue her self destructive behaviour - she tried to see if Nesta could work through it on her own but giving her a routine and something to do ultimately did her far more good than sitting back and watching her self-destruct. Why jas everyone forgiven Nesta's selfishness and her 'caring only for Elain' behaviour but when feyre says her sister's shitty behaviour (which yes is rooted in trauma but is still shitty) reflects badly on her, everyone brands Feyre as selfish??? In no way is that as selfish as the way Nesta has consistently acted
Personally I have not seen anyone “forgive” nesta for her past behavior before the book came out. i think it’s more that they acknowledged she was shitty but still tried to understand what made her that way. As for feyre I think the problem is that she didn’t apologize. everything feyre did was ofcourse understandable as to why she would do them but like the apology nesta gave, I would’ve liked if feyre gave one back too
@@thefaereader I read the books a few weeks ago so I'm not sure of I'm remembering correctly or not but I dont really remember Nesta and a big apology scene? I thought her sacrificing her powers for them (which I did think was so unnecessary, would have loved to have seen more of Nesta power)was her apology in a way. Maybe I've forgotten it :/ I just think nestas overall behaviour to fehre was far worse than how feyre ever treated her and I still haven't really gotten over that from a Nesta point of view because we've never seen feyre and Nesta properly talk about it
OMG Thank you. I thought I was the only one. Literally Nesta has shown so much contempt for Feyre the entire book series and I remember I kept asking myself why? Keep in mind this was before the whole cauldron situation. People seem to have forgotten about all that. The whole trauma thing with the cauldron is somewhat understandable but she was a b*tch from the get go. And because of all that stuff in the first three books, I didn't really care much about her development and her redemption story to be honest. It was already too late
okay i have to disagree about it not being a feminist book. i think it was very feminist. i think nesta overcame her anxiety by eventually choosing to train which took the stress away (although, i completely agree, her only having the choice between training or the human lands was bullshit). but then she got other women with painful pasts to join her and they all overcame it.
i do agree that feyre's behavior wasn't what it was in the first trilogy. also most of what you said about how the inner circle treated nesta. i tried to look past it. especially since she and cassian would obviously get together. rhys even said azriel was their chaperone. i personally felt like an old woman while reading it, bc i thought the fact that the first half of the book was just nesta and cassian having sex the whole time was ridiculous. if i wanted 50 shades of grey i've got it right here on my bookcase😂 idk i just thought it was a little over the top, definitely a step up from feyre and rhys in the first three books. and i didn't like the weird friends with benefits thing they had.
also wtf - i considered that they may be mates at one point but then dismissed it bc they had mentioned multiple times that having a mate is extremely rare, so how is it that feyre and her two sisters are made into fae and they all happen to have mates in the same inner circle?? that's bullsthi. SJM is just contradicting her own writing.
i wasn't a fan at first, but i honestly liked it by the end. when you said "they're so old but they're so stupid" i was dying😂😂 -- i'm so sorry this is so long. and i'm only 16 mins into the video. so expect more haha
I DEFINITELY see how it is a feminist book, there's for sure many feminist elements. but with rhys taking away multiple women's choices while claiming to be pro-women's choices, I just dont like that. and same the fact that they're mates.... like plsss I swear Sarah made that up while writing this book cuz they never sensed it for years in previous books (when mating bond is supposed to be obviously smellable as stated in previous books)
I've seen harem anime with a better plot than this trainwreck of a series
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are you saying nessa instead of nesta
I don't think so 😳
It sounds like Nesta to me, you just pronounce it with a soft “t,” so it’s not as obvious. Unlike the audiobook where Cassian is like “Nes-Tah” every other page lmao.