Wow. Ok. Guys. This book. This fucking book, you guys. I don't even know how to explain how bad this book was, and bad on so many levels, also. There are a ton of spoilers ahead, so be warned. Okay, so, just starting from the beginning and going straight thru, here are some of the many problems I had:
1) So Nesta apparently sucks? And she hates their dad? But she's also the only one who talks to him? Are Feyre and Elain sooo much better because they just ignore their dad, instead of engaging him in conversation? I literally have no fucking clue what's even happening here. And also, Nesta's apparently so strong willed and shit, but she doesn't actually do anything to further her own survival. It's all very confusing.
2) Why is Tamlin so scary when he takes Feyre? He's trying to get her to fall in love with him, not fucking pee her pants because a giant bear is kidnapping her. Wolf? Bear? I can't remember what Tamlin shapeshifts into, just that he's apparently the hottest fucking person in the entire world. Spare me.
3) WHAT THE HECKITY HECK IS GOING ON WITH THE INVISIBLE SPRING COURT?! Making an entire manor of people not just invisible, but intangible? Just for a stupid "fairy-sight" reveal? I don't get it. And also, where are all the non-servants? Did all of them leave when Amarantha came? I think I remember something like Tamlin driving them all away being a plot point. But you can't, like, run a COURT without COURTiers. Also, Tamlin killed all his close friends trying to attract a human girl? And then that's never mentioned again? Okay, cool. Guess the only person who matters is Feyre.
4) The sexism. Why was there so much sexism? I really don't get it. When you're creating an entirely new world, you really don't have to bring sexism with you. It's a choice you can definitely make, but if you bring sexism with you, you have to address it as an issue. Instead, there's a crazy amount of sexism in this book, but it's never faced as an issue. It's just presented as the way things are. There are seven High Lords of Prythian, and the only female ruler we see in this book is EVIL, POWER-CRAZED, BLOOD-THIRSTY!!!!11!!!1!! What the fuck.
5) The drugging. Feyre spent a good portion of her life in this book being drugged every single night, and then fondled like a sex toy. BY HER LOVE INTEREST. Apparently, it's totally fine to be assaulted as long as the assaulter is hot!
6) This book was just so boring. Feyre spent most of it lounging around in perfect gardens, staring into stupid moonlight pools, and saying every other sentence how she could never paint the perfect gardens or moonlight pools. There was also a lump of annoying bantering and a dash of passionate angst sex. Feyre was proactive at the very beginning--she wanted to get home, she wanted to help her family--but as soon as she heard her family was being taken care of (for, like, the seventh time), she basically melted into Tamlin's arms.
7) The stupid blight. We learn at the end that the blight is really Amarantha doing her thing, but Feyre doesn't know that. And yet, she hears about a MAGICAL blight on MAGIC and worries about her family living in a NON-magical land. Since she has no idea what she's worried about, there's absolutely zero urgency at all. Plus, the book kept going on and on and on about how Tamlin's powers were so diminished, yadda yadda yadda, but maybe don't show him with so much power, then? Because he was doing magic left and right, and when you hear that that's only a fraction of his power, magic starts to become boring. Because the more magic you can do and the more easily you can do it, the less interesting it is.
8) The ellipses. So may . . . ellipses. And at . . . random times. Feyre would make a statement and then put her final thought . . . after. Also, there was a lot of-- She would start a thought and-- Guess she was bored, too.
There's so much more, but it's late, and I'm tired. I hope Rhysand falls into the Cauldron.
*edit* Oh, right, and then Alis gets mad at Feyre for not telling Tamlin that she loved him??? And Feyre gets mad at herself??? For something that wasn't her fault at all!!!! I DON'T GET IT I NEED SARAH J. MASS TO COME HERE AND EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON.
