christinaej's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
dreamwrapt's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.5
Where to begin... this was just horrible. Literally a remix of Twilight. I don't get why this is popular. Read something better written, please.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual content, War, Fatphobia, Gore, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Eating disorder, Slavery, Blood, Classism, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Rape, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use
lqne's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Torture, Sexual content, Classism, Slavery, Body shaming, Confinement, War, Vomit, Murder, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Sexual violence, Rape, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Excrement, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity
iwinatcookie's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Gaslighting, Blood, Torture, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, War, Sexual content, Gore, Death of parent, Murder, Animal death, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Slavery, Kidnapping, and Classism
Moderate: Rape
nkmustdie's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Classism, Medical trauma, Medical content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, War, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Stalking, and Torture
saramoser's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This book was enjoyable but maybe too much hype and so I expected fantastic. Outside of my usual genre, this fantasy, world building almost retelling of beauty and the beast was interesting to a point, but the certain points it almost seemed as if we were in a hurry to get the book over with, and lacked depth.
I’ve heard the 2nd book is better, so I am excited to start that!
I’ve heard the 2nd book is better, so I am excited to start that!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, Death, Murder, Torture, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Alcohol, Blood, Sexual content, and Slavery
ekern1991's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture, Emotional abuse, and Rape
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
3.75
Now I can finally watch all of those videos I have been saving about ACOFAR. It took me some time (like ten minutes) to figure out the star rating and how I feel about this book, so here are some mangeled notes: It was okay. I did not particularly enjoyed specific things, but there are no things that I really disliked to still remember them after finishing the book and sitting down for a bit. I liked some characters, I was kinda interested in how the story would progress. I will probably continue with the series. But I did not feel all that happy after reading it. It was okay, but I will not be rereading it, not even thinking about buying a copy for myself. Still, I get the hype. And here are my reading notes:
Why is this set in the UK?
So much not like the other girls, I swear to god.
I bet whoever she will find, they will teach her to write/read.
It was provoked tho, as they would have died from hunger otherwise.
I am really getting tired of her just being “Fairies = bad” every three seconds.
Feyre is so weird for remarking on Lucien’s metal eye.
Tamlin be like: “Do whatever you want with your life.”
But he also be like: *puts invisible bonds*
Feyre should have been fine with being killed, if her only reason to go with him was to kill him and get back. Now, that she is being told in the way that she can believe that her family is being cared for, it is weird of her to keep saying, that Tamlin is “holding [her] family’s well-being against her if she stepped out of line” since her stepping out of line would mean killing her and going against the treaty.
That was such a long description of her face. Bro, I know you write for teenagers, but come on.
I bet the painting was by Tamlin.
Girly, you have just been ready to kill him and now it is all “sheer male beauty”.
Grace? In his breathing?
Yo, they are stuck in masks? That is actually interesting.
Oh no, how could those “terrible beasts” be upset about her loss, when it is clear that she is still hurting. And there is no “I did not miss her in years”, since she is always going back to the promise and has only been able to not be very upset about it, because she needed to survive.
Me when a person is kinda forced to live with me until I die, so they try to be nice to me and figure out how to spend time with me. But no, that could not possibly be it, Lucien just wants her to get eaten by a bear.
It is honestly kind of annoying seeing her dismiss people and assume that everyone is worse than her, or at least more stupid.
Feyre expects to be killed simply for living and talking.
This is “Beauty and the Beast” all over again with her dad. That is such a trap tho, I have no clue how she pretends that everyone is so smart, when she acts like this.
Now I get why this book is this long, since it took her a couple of chapters to understand what he said, even tho he cannot lie.
This girly be like “treaty is not fair, i did not agree to be bound by it” and then be like “oh, poor fae (who i hated so much two seconds ago), they are forced into such anger by their immortality”.
I bet Tamlin will teach her to read and write when he learns about her not being able to.
I do not quite get how she finally understood that there is nothing she can do and her life is therefore meaningless, yet she still is making a plan to escape.
Yo, it’s the Sailor Moon transformation with light.
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying.
Girly, you do not know how powerful Bogge actually is. Maybe it is like a frog.
Lucien is so nice, but I bet Feyre will still hate him for no reason.
He did not say “if” you need to escape, he said “when you free Suriel, you will need to escape”.
I thought we established that Tamlin is a High Lord long ago?
“His human woman” is because you are in his court. The same as Lucien is his, you stupid.
“ignoring how easily I could see the cut of his muscles beneath his white shirt”, cause he is so so so sexy seconds after you almost died.
Why is she now deciding how Lucien should be punished? He probably did not know a better way to trap a Suriel and was trying to help the best he could.
Why is Tamlin suddenly talking about handing out punishments to Feyre?
I see we left plot and now they are just horny.
Bonfire night. Why is Feyre so stupid? Why did she not go back to the house when the black haired high fey left?
Bruh. Chapter 21. I see we left the plot entirely and we got out "fae sex ritual, because fantasy". (to cut out the rant, this is why I abandoned Sabrina's adventures)
??????????? Bro, rape. Flashing red lights rape. There is no "if she doesn't listen, I don't have to deal with what happens". Rape. Stop it.
Why is she now wearing dresses? Is this the arc where she loses her personality, because it's time for the steamy scenes?
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying. x2
Would she just get extremely overwhelmed from enhancing her feelings?
So first she says that there are no celebrations, but now that they celebrate the summer solstice?
I swear to god, the sex scenes are written so bad. “He sheathed into me”? Girly, chill.
This all is just set in Britain. Elaine is talking about tulips in the Netherlands.
Ah yes, a very good idea to go back to the village to give people money. Good thing there are barely any consequences about people suddenly becoming rich in this book.
Oh my god, look, now she is talking about humans like she once did about fae about how weird they look, that is so crazy.
First of all, Feyre, you are stupid, you do not know if this is not a trap. Second of all, tough love is not love, it is abuse. Third of all, you are not supposed to tell to protect yourself, so Amarantha cannot reach into the mind of your sister and figure out from her where you are and use you to hurt Tamlin.
THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. See, Feyre, you told them a different name and they attacked it. They will figure it out.
As a possibility, she should have considered that Tamlin had put glamour over it, so when she returned, she would be disappointed and would just turn back to her family.
So all of this was fixed by Tamlin. I bet this is just the conflict in the 75% mark and then she will go back to him. Or maybe in a different book. Also, they just changed from telling that she needed to get married to him, to just telling him that she loves him.
I also just noticed that the terrible place where the people got killed and everything is bad - yeah, that’s Ireland.
Tamlin sent so many of his people over the wall to get rid of the curse, maybe he is just not great. Sure, it is all for a greater goal, but it is not fair to people who trust him.
Okay, I was kinda wrong, Feyre does not hate him, because he gave up on wooing her and that makes it all okay.
Don’t worry Feyre, you keep falling for traps.
Why is this set in the UK?
So much not like the other girls, I swear to god.
I bet whoever she will find, they will teach her to write/read.
It was provoked tho, as they would have died from hunger otherwise.
I am really getting tired of her just being “Fairies = bad” every three seconds.
Feyre is so weird for remarking on Lucien’s metal eye.
Tamlin be like: “Do whatever you want with your life.”
But he also be like: *puts invisible bonds*
Feyre should have been fine with being killed, if her only reason to go with him was to kill him and get back. Now, that she is being told in the way that she can believe that her family is being cared for, it is weird of her to keep saying, that Tamlin is “holding [her] family’s well-being against her if she stepped out of line” since her stepping out of line would mean killing her and going against the treaty.
That was such a long description of her face. Bro, I know you write for teenagers, but come on.
I bet the painting was by Tamlin.
Girly, you have just been ready to kill him and now it is all “sheer male beauty”.
Grace? In his breathing?
Yo, they are stuck in masks? That is actually interesting.
Oh no, how could those “terrible beasts” be upset about her loss, when it is clear that she is still hurting. And there is no “I did not miss her in years”, since she is always going back to the promise and has only been able to not be very upset about it, because she needed to survive.
Me when a person is kinda forced to live with me until I die, so they try to be nice to me and figure out how to spend time with me. But no, that could not possibly be it, Lucien just wants her to get eaten by a bear.
It is honestly kind of annoying seeing her dismiss people and assume that everyone is worse than her, or at least more stupid.
Feyre expects to be killed simply for living and talking.
This is “Beauty and the Beast” all over again with her dad. That is such a trap tho, I have no clue how she pretends that everyone is so smart, when she acts like this.
Now I get why this book is this long, since it took her a couple of chapters to understand what he said, even tho he cannot lie.
This girly be like “treaty is not fair, i did not agree to be bound by it” and then be like “oh, poor fae (who i hated so much two seconds ago), they are forced into such anger by their immortality”.
I bet Tamlin will teach her to read and write when he learns about her not being able to.
I do not quite get how she finally understood that there is nothing she can do and her life is therefore meaningless, yet she still is making a plan to escape.
Yo, it’s the Sailor Moon transformation with light.
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying.
Girly, you do not know how powerful Bogge actually is. Maybe it is like a frog.
Lucien is so nice, but I bet Feyre will still hate him for no reason.
He did not say “if” you need to escape, he said “when you free Suriel, you will need to escape”.
I thought we established that Tamlin is a High Lord long ago?
“His human woman” is because you are in his court. The same as Lucien is his, you stupid.
“ignoring how easily I could see the cut of his muscles beneath his white shirt”, cause he is so so so sexy seconds after you almost died.
Why is she now deciding how Lucien should be punished? He probably did not know a better way to trap a Suriel and was trying to help the best he could.
Why is Tamlin suddenly talking about handing out punishments to Feyre?
I see we left plot and now they are just horny.
Bonfire night. Why is Feyre so stupid? Why did she not go back to the house when the black haired high fey left?
Bruh. Chapter 21. I see we left the plot entirely and we got out "fae sex ritual, because fantasy". (to cut out the rant, this is why I abandoned Sabrina's adventures)
??????????? Bro, rape. Flashing red lights rape. There is no "if she doesn't listen, I don't have to deal with what happens". Rape. Stop it.
Why is she now wearing dresses? Is this the arc where she loses her personality, because it's time for the steamy scenes?
Oh no, my alpha male man is so lonely and powerful and he is isolating himself, because of how heavy of a burden he is carrying. x2
Would she just get extremely overwhelmed from enhancing her feelings?
So first she says that there are no celebrations, but now that they celebrate the summer solstice?
I swear to god, the sex scenes are written so bad. “He sheathed into me”? Girly, chill.
This all is just set in Britain. Elaine is talking about tulips in the Netherlands.
Ah yes, a very good idea to go back to the village to give people money. Good thing there are barely any consequences about people suddenly becoming rich in this book.
Oh my god, look, now she is talking about humans like she once did about fae about how weird they look, that is so crazy.
First of all, Feyre, you are stupid, you do not know if this is not a trap. Second of all, tough love is not love, it is abuse. Third of all, you are not supposed to tell to protect yourself, so Amarantha cannot reach into the mind of your sister and figure out from her where you are and use you to hurt Tamlin.
THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. See, Feyre, you told them a different name and they attacked it. They will figure it out.
As a possibility, she should have considered that Tamlin had put glamour over it, so when she returned, she would be disappointed and would just turn back to her family.
So all of this was fixed by Tamlin. I bet this is just the conflict in the 75% mark and then she will go back to him. Or maybe in a different book. Also, they just changed from telling that she needed to get married to him, to just telling him that she loves him.
I also just noticed that the terrible place where the people got killed and everything is bad - yeah, that’s Ireland.
Tamlin sent so many of his people over the wall to get rid of the curse, maybe he is just not great. Sure, it is all for a greater goal, but it is not fair to people who trust him.
Okay, I was kinda wrong, Feyre does not hate him, because he gave up on wooing her and that makes it all okay.
Don’t worry Feyre, you keep falling for traps.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Grief, Body horror, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Vomit, Confinement, Drug use, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Sexism
Moderate: War, Slavery, and Rape
Minor: Genocide
I am not sure if basically making fun of someone illiteracy is abelism. Not sure if the human/fey dynamic is based on racism. Could not really classify different wines as drugs, but did anyway.hidingtoread's review against another edition
medium-paced
I’m going to start and end this review with the same statement: If you loved this book, great, I encourage reading and I’m glad this is something you enjoy. I just didn’t and realize I should stay in my lane with adult/grimdark fantasy. I accept I made the mistake here. I’m glad I purchased the book and gave it a go at least, rather than pulling my nose up at it without giving it a shot.
Now my thoughts, the amount of times I rolled my eyes is almost as many times as Fey-Belle talked about how she couldn't paint the colour she was seeing, or the use of ellipses. Don't tell me this a fae story when you also make them werewolf vampire shapeshifters. Also how can one tell how good looking someone is when they permanently wear a mask, they could be a Leper under that mask! Is SJM also throwing in a bit of Phantom of the Opera? I should be able to read a fantasy and still be able to see myself in this world, except the Fae are all thin and "beautiful" af (I'm curvy and jiggly so I can't relate there) and the humans are as dumb af. I say this because appearance comes up A LOT.
I did not care for the any of the characters. The evil queen should have made the curse harder and turned them all into cutlery for all I cared. The fact that you had a riddle that was not hard and yet the MC struggled with it. Its not like she had never been with a guy before, the first few chapters were literally her talking about having a “relationship” with a guy from her village.
A lot of this was so inconsistent, male MC is so nice but also growls a lot, but he’s Fae, why is he growling, why does he have claws! Fey-Belle is the dumbest 19 year old I have ever known. How can someone ignore warnings from the people “protecting her” every damn time, despite the fact that they are proven right every time.
Lastly, I can’t believe readers are into the forced intimacy and abuse in this, calling it sexy, but when it’s a male writer, its un-necessary and vulgar or “why can’t they write a strong female character”. Especially when, like in Malazan, they are not a mythical creature, just human beings doing human hateful things, but that’s the reality of humanity and you’re expected to have a repulsed reaction to it, and be angered by the injustice, and disgusted by these human behaviours. No, SJM makes it sexy and people love it. If its S&M then give us internal monologue where the M is enjoying it and externally shows they want it, thereby giving consent. Don’t tell us the MC is resisting but make out like we should be aroused by reading it. No, just no.
I liked the first part, up to where Fey-Belle encounters the thing that whispers to her in the forest. That was creepy and I read on thinking it would carry on or get better. Maybe it did, I just didn’t see it because I kept getting annoyed at all of the other stuff. Which is a shame.
So again, if you loved it, great, I encourage reading and I’m glad this is something you enjoy. I just didn’t and realize I should stay in my lane with adult/grimdark fantasy. I accept I made the mistake here. I’m glad I purchased the book and gave it a go at least rather than pulling my nose up at it without giving it a shot.
I’m still giving it a 2 star, one for the first part, and the second because its got a lot of people into reading which I love and I recognise how it has contributed to the book world in general which I also love. Keep doing what you do SJM, I just won’t be reading it, but will recommend to people who might like it.
Now my thoughts, the amount of times I rolled my eyes is almost as many times as Fey-Belle talked about how she couldn't paint the colour she was seeing, or the use of ellipses. Don't tell me this a fae story when you also make them werewolf vampire shapeshifters. Also how can one tell how good looking someone is when they permanently wear a mask, they could be a Leper under that mask! Is SJM also throwing in a bit of Phantom of the Opera? I should be able to read a fantasy and still be able to see myself in this world, except the Fae are all thin and "beautiful" af (I'm curvy and jiggly so I can't relate there) and the humans are as dumb af. I say this because appearance comes up A LOT.
I did not care for the any of the characters. The evil queen should have made the curse harder and turned them all into cutlery for all I cared. The fact that you had a riddle that was not hard and yet the MC struggled with it. Its not like she had never been with a guy before, the first few chapters were literally her talking about having a “relationship” with a guy from her village.
A lot of this was so inconsistent, male MC is so nice but also growls a lot, but he’s Fae, why is he growling, why does he have claws! Fey-Belle is the dumbest 19 year old I have ever known. How can someone ignore warnings from the people “protecting her” every damn time, despite the fact that they are proven right every time.
Lastly, I can’t believe readers are into the forced intimacy and abuse in this, calling it sexy, but when it’s a male writer, its un-necessary and vulgar or “why can’t they write a strong female character”. Especially when, like in Malazan, they are not a mythical creature, just human beings doing human hateful things, but that’s the reality of humanity and you’re expected to have a repulsed reaction to it, and be angered by the injustice, and disgusted by these human behaviours. No, SJM makes it sexy and people love it. If its S&M then give us internal monologue where the M is enjoying it and externally shows they want it, thereby giving consent. Don’t tell us the MC is resisting but make out like we should be aroused by reading it. No, just no.
I liked the first part, up to where Fey-Belle encounters the thing that whispers to her in the forest. That was creepy and I read on thinking it would carry on or get better. Maybe it did, I just didn’t see it because I kept getting annoyed at all of the other stuff. Which is a shame.
So again, if you loved it, great, I encourage reading and I’m glad this is something you enjoy. I just didn’t and realize I should stay in my lane with adult/grimdark fantasy. I accept I made the mistake here. I’m glad I purchased the book and gave it a go at least rather than pulling my nose up at it without giving it a shot.
I’m still giving it a 2 star, one for the first part, and the second because its got a lot of people into reading which I love and I recognise how it has contributed to the book world in general which I also love. Keep doing what you do SJM, I just won’t be reading it, but will recommend to people who might like it.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Rape
bookish_bailey's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Death
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Blood, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Confinement, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Vomit, Sexual violence, and Rape