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A review by lenjamin
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
3.0
Unsatisfying.
Any interesting elements (like the Bone Cleaver or Stryga) were lazily tied up while main character deaths meant nothing because God forbid there be any consequences for the choices.
For a book series that emphasizes free will and even has characters claim to champion equality, there is never consequences for anyone's actions unless you're Tamlin, and the archaic hierarchies of fae that the main crew seem so adamant about opposing are actually rationalised by the power distribution of the world building. Don't even get me started on the biological determinism of the soul mate trope as a substitute for building actual chemistry. Will I keep reading these books? Yes. But only because I am starved for actually good epic fantasy love stories.
For a book series that emphasizes free will and even has characters claim to champion equality, there is never consequences for anyone's actions unless you're Tamlin, and the archaic hierarchies of fae that the main crew seem so adamant about opposing are actually rationalised by the power distribution of the world building. Don't even get me started on the biological determinism of the soul mate trope as a substitute for building actual chemistry. Will I keep reading these books? Yes. But only because I am starved for actually good epic fantasy love stories.