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AHH hi!!! 😭💗 i get excited being asked about it PLEASE

ooh okay!! i feel like an agent drafting a mswl 😭💗 in no particular order:

i didn't like it. like by a lot lol. in general i think everything in acosf except for nessian and nesta's relationships were handled poorly and probably had the worst planning sjm has ever had. acosf is still one of my faves bc nessian and nesta's relationships/arc were just that good but like it was really messy and stupid at times

the high king implication was definitely part of the long list of things that weren't planned properly, and amren pissed me off in that scene a little, and having a high king and queen would be extremely boring imo. having 7 equal courts is more fun and the idea of rhys being open in personality to everyone instead of just lurking way up north in prythian and keeping to himself and his people and his family seems very...ooc to me, even if sjm wrote it. he'd be a good high king no doubt, but absolute monarchy always strikes me the wrong way, and even if he's the most powerful high lord it really doesn't suit his private personality and his philosophy on life (and he even conveys this himself by adamantly and repeatedly refusing amren’s suggestion).

HATE the news ones lmfao!! those like ink swirl design ones--v much dislike them. they’re awful for a multitude of reasons. as for the originals...

i actually quite like the originals! there’s definitely a story to them, and i believe all good cover art should serve their purpose--teasing what the book is about. there’s a lot of symbolism is seeing only half of feyre at the begin (when she enters prythian as a human), to her slowly emerging into the frame (acomaf), to being in the front and center of the faerie realm and hybern war (acowar) and then finally turning her back on battle and hoping to live in peace and prosperity (acofas). v snazzy.

ultimately acomaf is my favorite bc i like the hand tattoo leading into the frame, hinting at the importance of her and rhysand’s newfound allyship. i LOVE the velaris teaser in the background. it’s almost glossed over at first glance, but if u look closely u can see how it’s supposed to be a window into the city of starlight, and that’s gorgeous. it also symbolizes her freedom from tamlin. overall a fantastic cover. acotar as in the 1st book has my second fav cover.

but even to the original art, i actually prefer elithien’s dust jacket redos! like the tier goes elithien>originals>bloomberg's weird ink remakes. elithien’s do the best job at fulfilling the purpose of book covers, the spines have such great detailing w the little symbols at the top for each book’s main theme, the care put into every piece--including the backs!--is incredible, and it’s bringing back a more flat color style of art into mainstream young adult/new adult, and i love that! 12/10, glorious, go support @/elithien even if they have 0 idea who i am and this is not endorsed lol :3

i don't actually mind it!! usually i hate the quirky white girl protag names bc it’s there purely to make her special or whatever, but in acotar most everyone's names are strange in an ancient sort of way rather than just an unorthodox spelling kind of way, and i kind of fw that

plus her name has lots of meaning. the archeron last name is a nod to greek mythology and the underworld, which is a ref to the persephone x hades parallels in feysand. and then feyre itself is an old name for beautiful/elf/fairy, which is super on point for a girl entering the fae realm and prythian

i heard there was actually supposed to be a tid adaptation in the near future, but idk if they're actually gonna go through w it

tbh not really!! i tend to dislike adaptations when they're of YA material/new adult, just bc i think it gets messed up really easily. plus tid is my fav of all tsc, so that being ruined would really wound me lol. i remember being unable to get kat and dominic out of my head for clary and jace for a long, long time, and that really sucked.

this is such a good question 🥰🥺 <3

obvi i dislike many things lol, but smth that especially bugs me is the way insecurity tends to be handled in ya!

i feel like this is predominately an issue w white female protags, but it definitely pertains to some male characters too, also white: a lot of ya authors fail to acknowledge that insecurity usually, oh idk, stems from something??? it doesn’t just come out of thin air lol, like there is history linked w it. and i feel like that trivialization of insecurity is so harmful and so...victimizing of people w insurmountable amounts of privilege, yk what i mean? and even beyond its problematic nature, it’s just straight up dull and trope-y and frustrating to read.

u haven't!!

so i actually don’t mind it too much! i know most book fans Hate it lmao, and while i agree that i dislike the plot they went with more than original books (like that alec demon possessed side plot? jgdsklgjlsd what was that??) and hate like 99% of the casting (the actors themselves are v nice people :3, but it’s not really close at all to how i imagined some of them), it was super entertaining if you kind of separate it from the books in your head

PLUS the show did a lot of good in filtering out some...weird...things cassie did. for one, they got rid of that slut shaming bullshit our fav freewheeling bisexual magnus received in the books. it also treated izzy w more respect for the same sort of reason. they didn’t screw up w the casting identity-wise like netflix might have, and actually made luke black, and kept maia a dark-skinned black girl and gave her and jordan more interesting roles than how cassie just sort of abandoned them as side characters, and casted izzy, aka the one of prettiest characters canonically as a lebanese girl! they killed jocelyn, which like, i might be biased a lot little, but i actually hate her SO MUCH and while i’m glad she wasn’t killed in the books for literary reasons, it was such a relief not to have to physically watch her stupidity DJGKLJSGS.

i really don’t think it deserved the amount of hate book fans gave it, and considering how insanely popular it was, i don’t think i’m the only one holding that opinion. i wish it hadn’t been rushed and then cancelled w only a 2 hr series finale. the ending was awkward and weird. we didn’t get enough development. idk i feel like the fact that it was trending for so long once the cancellation was announced was reason enough to save it, but freeform is stupid so. rip an icon.

i will say that they made jace and clary extremely unlikeable tho and that pisses me off bc i love them sm in the books, and for the most part, except for like 2 or 3 characters, everyone’s personalities were heavily watered down, and thus it’s hard to like them at all if you didn’t enjoy the books first