A review by ananya_b
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

3.0

I am so, so disappointed in this book, considering that I had such high hopes for this series after A Court of Thorns and Roses. But three stars is a really generous rating for the roller-coaster-ride that I was subjected to.

The immature writing packed with obscenities is an infuriating departure from the flowery style of the first book, together with too many repetitions of the words "power" and "male", often in the same sentence. Most of the decisions taken by Feyre and Rhysand seem not to have a good enough reason. Circuitous and difficult paths are taken to achieve goals that could have been attained in simpler ways. Rhys and Co. travel between territories swiftly enough and often enough to leave you reeling and confused. The pacing
, once Feyre realises Rhys is her mate,
becomes increasingly hurried and garbled during the final chapters, reading more like the werewolf stories on Dreame than anything else.

The characters are completely unrecognisable from the first book: new people with old names.
Tamlin, for instance, suddenly goes from a golden hero you'd want to die for, in ACOTAR, to a miserable creep who denies Feyre's agency and resorts to making sneaky pacts with slavery-loving Hybern just to get her back: a complete butchering of his character from the first novel.
While we could argue that it's because Feyre is looking at them with new eyes, a gradual change in their personalities, over the course of the novel, would have been more believable — and interesting to read.

As something that progresses the plot of the series, this book is worth a quick read, although it feels like Wattpad fanfiction.
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