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A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

110 reviews

sammymilfort's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Animal cruelty, Blood, Sexual assault, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Sexual violence

ashleynp24's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Boy, was this a SPICY book. 

I didn’t expect it to be this spicy, considering the past few books having a nice mix of politics and war in it. While this book did have some action, a lot of it was a romance, which I did enjoy a lot. 

I always liked Nesta, even though she was such an unlikeable character the past few books, but the character development in this book was so good. She really got her redemption arc, while it also worked to tell us a little more about the other characters. Her determination and attitude made her a really fun character to read about.

I do wish it had a little more of Feyre and Rhys just because I’m so used to their POV with the past few books and I felt there wasn’t much except about the baby. Regardless, I loved Cassian and Nesta’s hate to love dynamic, and was delighted with the depiction of Nesta and her female friendships. 

Their friendship was so wholesome and needed to kind of break up how dark parts of this book were. Overall, really liked getting to learn more about Nesta, and I hope the next few books announced lean into Elain and Azriel so we can get to know them more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Physical abuse, War, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual content

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I’m officially a Nesta simp! I never hated her, but she wasn’t my favorite, until this book! 
I love her journey, & her growth throughout the book, there’s just so much I could say! But basically she is a badass female! 
Also, Emerie & Gwyn! I love The trios dynamic! And how they’re there for each other! Let’s go Valkyrie’s!! There are some badass females in this book!!
And Cassian! *dreamy* 🥰
I love his story & getting to hear his side of the journey too! And him & Nesta! Damn! 🔥 #NessianForLife
This whole series has captured my heart!!! I can’t wait for the next book!!! 💜

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Addiction, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Panic attacks/disorders

acorny's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, Rape, War, and Violence

farmpaws's review

2.0

Like all SJ Maas books in this series, it would be enormously improved by getting rid of the over complicated plot, branding it erotica, and really having fun with the court intrigue/politics. The author spreads herself too thin trying to cover sex/rivalry/plot and ends up with a product that is just too confusing to understand. I don’t remember anything that happened in this book apart from the rampant gender essentialism and coercion control dressed up as a clash of personalities in one case, and a ‘protective’ lover in another case. Her writing is fine and the characters are at least a bit interesting, but I find that once they become the main love interest they all become the same. Unfortunate, because I originally thought Cassian was the most interesting of all the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Body shaming

This relationship has every red flag possible dressed up as sexy

bugbites's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcohol, Death, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Violence

headinthepages's review against another edition

V enjoyable reread via audio!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child death, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

nimeneth's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Confinement, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

dani_reis's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexism, Miscarriage, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Body shaming

So much smut it's hard to find the plot.

feyreofthestars's review

slow-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

0.25

I don't even know where to begin. Fuck this book. I have never, in all my years of reading, been so genuinely disappointed and frustrated with a book the way I was with this one. I fell in love with the ACOTAR series last year, and I've been having so much fun with it, but this book and the way it was written just left such a bad taste in my mouth. Everything I love about ACOTAR and it's characters were completely destroyed by a weak plot with an insufferable fmc that had shitty redemption and development. I admit, I already didn't like Nesta before, but I was actually had high hopes for her story and wanted to see why she was the way she was, and how she was going to fix her relationship with her sisters, especially Feyre, whom she's been awful to practically theri whole lives. 

And yet, there was none of that. What I got was an absolute pornfest with cringy YA girlboss scenes and dialogues. Nesta and Cassian practically lost all the depth and chemistry they had in the previous books where they weren't even the main couple, mind you, and Nesta was given two strangers that became her replacement sisters, and allowed her to shove aside her issues with her actual sisters. Not to mention, every other character from the series was done so dirty and written in an uncharacteristically bad light in hopes of boosting Nesta's likeability, which didn't even fucking work. 

And no, don't tell me that because it was in her point of view, it means that we are finally seeing Feyre, Rhysand and the Inner Circle for who they are and that the "rose tinted glasses" that Feyre "wore" in her point of view were gone. I think it's bullshit. A clear excuse to deflect how mischaracterized everyone else was, even Nesta, and how their personalities and dynamics were ruined in favor of furthering her conflict with them and advancing the "plot" of the book in the most lazy half-assed way. I'm so done.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Alcoholism, and Mental illness

this book sucks. if youre a nesta hater/critic who wanted to see her change and become better, especially towards feyre, you WILL be disappointed. you have been warned.