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

adventurous dark 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

4.5

I reeeally liked this book, more than the first one tbh. What I like the most is the gradual expansion in the world-building, it kept me intrigued the whole way through, and also the depicton of trauma and depression, I find that in some fantasy books the MCs go though some really shoking scenes and then just go about their day as normal, and tha fact that you can see how the characters here are impacted and deteriorated, subtly first, is really refreshing. 
Now to spoilers: 
Things I liked:
SpoilerThe way Feyre slowly starts to notice the abuse she went through, how Tamlin is a thret in the background in a way you almost forget about him at times until the end and then just uff... the BETAYAL! Just Mor in general <3 and also Nesta <3

Things I didn't like:
SpoilerI'm nor really a fan of the whole mate thing, between Rhys and Feyre is fine I guess, I just don't like the thought of Rhys loving her even before she really knew her, but the relization of Lucien and Elain I wasn't a fan of, I feel like it's just way too convinient for the plot. Also I can't really get completly behind the relationship between Rhys and Feyre because of what he did to her in the first book, he drug her and used her and I'm not sure the author is really seeing how problematic that is, because it is brushed aside really fast in this book and idk, it makes me a bit uncomfortable... and just kind of as a pet peeve: once Feyre knows they're mates she refers to Rhys as "my mate" way too often and it just gets repetitive
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