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A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Honestly I’m wrecked. Because Court of Wings and Ruin was a Great CONCLUSION to characters I never wanna leave.
Quick shoutout THANK YOU SJM for this incredible adventure. It was thrilling. It was unpredictable. It was complex. I cried. I laughed. It was better than cats! Hectic SPOILERS ahead, I loved it BUT I recognize it had its issues. so lets just get into it:
Let me just start by saying I would DIE for the inner circle. Thats about it to be honest. Seeing the inner circle makes me want friends like that, Feyre great, Rhys great…but the inner circle in general and like as a unit just f*ck yeah so much love
I have never laughed out loud so hard in a book as I did in ACOWAR.
A lot of the banter and the lines and general reactions. That was probably my favorite part of the book I got a few examples but I just remember actively laugh out loud and full on cackling at a lot of things throughout this book
To Feyre as a queen, just absolutely slay
The beginning constantly just dropping little tricks, manuevering everyone, And totally fucks with Ianthe
I love Lucien and I have loved him since book 1.
I mean sure in the 2nd he did and said some dickish things. But honestly at this point every SINGLE character has done some dickish things….except for the inner circle. Because they are angels.
So Lucien definitely redeemed himself within this book. I love him, he is just so precious and I just feel like he needs to be saved at all costs.
And all the sexual tension and the smut. Like i love smut, huge fan…but like once the couple is already together I am less inclined to like the smut. So it got to be a little much in this book but whatever.
NESTA AND CASSIAN ARE MY NEW FAVORITES.
Like I have hated Nesta since page one. But I have always loved Cassian…
These two? Love the sexual tension, the anger, and Cassien being so~ they just have to be Mates. HAVE to be!
Hoping next three books..please? Maybe answer my question? Preferably saying yes they are mates now they go on awesome adventures together.
And that ending… it ruined my life. Cassian just kept trying to keep her safe and that was just everything and they were ready to die together. Die together. Oh god i’m crying while typing it was just so. My heart broke. Aww shit.
Nesta
She had to work hard to redeem herself for me in this book. In the beginning I was just so annoyed by her very existence like she was using valuable pages that could be elsewear….
I mean bitch stop being so grumpy all the time, tell people things, help them, let them help you! But by the end when she was screaming Cassian’s name as they were all about to be fucking whiped out~ I was just bawling
As I mentioned Inner Circle banter is my FAVORITE thing.
Nesta calling Cassian an overgrown bat was 10/10, A+ I just loved it.
One of my favorite things is people will have that one dramatic line. And this is every book, every movie, everything.
Well Amaron tries to do that with her ‘i shall end you’ and Rhysand just RUINS IT for her like Mhmm sure you will and she was like ‘ugh I will!’
And i just pictured it in my head and died of laughter annd happiness. Just one of my favorite scenes
I think what broke my heart was Cassian being sad and mad at Feyre for disappearing to Spring Court.
And he revealed it so honestly like Rhys did the same self-sacrificing bullshit and was gone for fifty years. And he didn’t know what would happen with Freya and that was just so real and broke my heart
I loved Mor telling Nesta to keep her forked tongue in her mouth that was great.
Mor: I love Mor and in this book we got..more of Mor’s story.
I.. so Mor’s gay. Or bisexual. Cool. i’m glad theres more diversity within the book. Like thats cool. Moving on
Amren…are you a dragon?
Like Sarah literally only says ~the thing~ thats within Amren body and im sitting here like.. so is she a dragon??!! F*cking Amren .ughh i just love her! Obviously she is just a great badass who i just fucking love sooo much. But the trick at the end and Amren then Rhy i can’t handle it, i just cried. I just sobbed.
I cried so much during this book looking back now.
I hate that I don’t hate Tamlin anymore
I wasn’t like yayy you are redemmed, it was more like okay fine you weren’t a total dick.
The Bone carver, Weaver and Suriel honestly brought this book together with the amazing world building i loved in the first book. I forget sometimes its not just four courts or just a continuent but a whole world of fey and fey creatures and then we get these awesome reminders
I love all these old gods and creatures they talk about, thats honestly my favorite part of this mythological world
The Bone Carver: That he appeared as Freya’s son and that she realized it going back and Rhys was like show me what he looks like and ughhh my f*cking heartttt the feels!
And then when he tricked Feyre to get the mirror and she saw herself and she was a monster and it was a whole trauma deal.
And Bone carver was like oh you checked it out cool yeah nah i just wanted to see if you were worthy!
And i was like you motherf*cker!
But it turned out to be a good thing
The Weavier… Love her, so badass. And that she is actually the Bone carver’s sister???? For her to join the war and Rhys being all badass like “oh look who I brought to the party.” And the Weavier is just a baller and i was like yesss eat those bitches, you go gurl!
And the Suriel! I love that he came back. Thats another death i cried at, and he was such a great friend to Freya.
Like honestly in the end she didn’t even need to catch him it was more like hey gurl heres some answerssss. Then he dies. And then she tries to help him. But he still dies. And she just holds him. While he dies. This horrifying creepy scary creature and she just stays with him while he diessss and i was just like ughhh my f*cking heart.
The Battle Scenes:
In general: very intense.
To my its always interesting to see dif between adult war and YA war, like the amount of details.
For this book: Rhys was talking to Cassian like dude your guts were outside of you, Azriel was HOLDING your guts together and i just laughed. I mean i was sad. But mostly just lol guts.
Overall: I’m still a mess after finishing that book.
This is just how I feel about it after JUST FINISHING IT. I’m sure I’ll read it a second time and change my opinion and thats just how it goes. Thank you Sarah for such amazing characters and an interesting plot, it was awesome.
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