Hello, hello!!
I’m here again, bringing with me my new review of the second book in the ACOTAR series, “A Court Of Mist And Fury” by Sarah J. Maas.
After a wonderful first book ( A Court Of Thorns And Roses ) my expectations for the next one were huge. Thankfully, Maas didn’t disappoint me and ACOMAF was insanely good! However, if you haven’t read the book, or you don’t like spoilers… I’ll insist you leave because this review will be bathed in spoilers!
The plot: ( Beware of the spoilers! )
After Feyre’s win on the trials by Amarantha, who managed to save Prythian, became a High Fae and Tamlin ( finally ) killed Amarantha, things didn’t go as she planned. The two of them and Lucien return back to the Spring Court and Tamlin ( as every other Lord in Prythian ) tries to rebuild his Court now that his people have returned. Feyre, who clearly suffers from PTSD and panic attacks begs Tamlin to let her do things. His only response though is that he’s “trying to keep her safe” not allowing it to set foot outside his house.
While their wedding preparations, in which Feyre has no word, come to an end and she walks down the aisle her panic attacks return, she begs every God who may listen to help her and get her out. At that moment, Rhysand makes his appearance ( God save you my boy ) and demands his bargain. “One week every month to his court”. Having no other option, Feyre follows him to the Night Court, while Tamlin promises to find a way to save her.
During her stay at Rhysand’s house though, and he leaving her alone, to breathe and think… she realized that the way that Tamlin was handling her wasn’t right or romantic at all. ( Alexa, play “toxic till the end” by Rose ). When she tries to leave the house and follow him while they have a fight, he locks her ( with magic ) in the house and he leaves her there, broken and panicked with another panic attack hitting her hard. Rhysand manages to break her free and he takes her to his Court.
Feyre, still not fully trusting him, decides to stay with him for a while until she figures out what she will do with her life. But staying with the snarky, flirtatious Lord of the Night Court wasn’t at all what she had expected to be. Spending time with Rhys, his cousin Mor, Amren – his second in command -, and his two best friends, Cassian and Azriel, Feyre started without realizing it feeling them as her family.
In order to find the two pieces of the book of Cauldron, they travel to Summer Court and after they retrieve it, they go to Mortal Lands to ask her sisters’s help. The second part belongs to the Human Queens and they need Nesta and Elain’s help to meet them.
It took her a while though to figure out that she had fallen in love with Rhys, who with no doubt adores her. Meanwhile, the King of Hybern starts making his move to the upcoming war ( that desires to enslave every Human and Fae ) and Rhys is the only one who has figured out his plan and tries to sabotage him. In a training session with Feyre, the King’s soldiers capture Rhys and she manages to save him mastering the powers that were inherited from the Lords. ( The moment that they brought her back to life, every single one of them gave her a piece of their power as well, by accident ).
Finding out that she is his Mate ( something like soulmate ), and that he knew and he didn’t tell her, made her furious. Taking her time though she couldn’t fight her feelings anymore and she accepted him as her mate as well.
The meeting with the Human Queens doesn’t go well when they decide not to give them the book, but while they are leaving, one of them leaves it behind… not agreeing with the others. While Amren tries to break the code of the book, the Queens finding out what the other did, sacrifice her and betray Velaris’s ( the city of the Night Court ) location to the King.
Feyre with the others protects the city and when Amren breaks the code, they go on a mission in Hybern to destroy the Cauldron. But there, they are abused by Tamlin who sold Prythian to the King, to help him take Feyre back. The King, who has abducted Feyre’s sisters, turns them into High Fae and when he’s ready to kill Feyre’s family and her mate, she pretends that Rhys had put a spell on her and begs the King to break it. Rhys, knows that she just pretends to be able to save them, he trusts her and when the King breaks their bond, he takes the others, leaving her behind, and goes to the Night Court.
When Amren demands that he go and take Feyre back from the Spring Court ( since she returned to Tamlin, pretending that the spell had broken and she still loves him ), Rhys informs her that his “Lady of Night Court” knows what she’s doing. Apparently, he had decided to do something that no one had done before and he made her his equal. Something more than a marriage.
Now, Feyre is stuck in a Court that it’s not her own, with people who are not her family and an ex who believes that she is still “his”. But, to be a good spy she has to pretend, and she will find out that she’s pretty good at this.
My thoughts:
If you haven’t noticed, after almost 1000 words of me telling you everything, I loved it! That book was so damn good! The way that Maas wrote about how broken Feyre was at first and how she started healing when she found people who truly loved her and gave her space to heal and not treat her as an object.
Many readers can’t understand why everyone else, including Feyre, has fallen in love with Rhys who was “the villain in the first book”. But the truth is that he wasn’t. He is definitely not the prince in the white horse and no one says that… He did some really bad things and treated people, Feyre included, awfully. But if you think all the things that he did, were all calculated in order to make Aramantha think that he is doing something bad, but in reality, it was his own broken way to make those things less awful as he allowed it to do without giving away himself.
I liked the way that Feyre and Rhys’s story unfolded and it wasn’t rushed. They bickered with each other, they started flirting, they curing for each other… And I’m not gonna lie, those damn magic notes that they wrote to each other are probably one of my favorite things of the book.
The side characters are all perfect in their own imperfect way, but still, my favorite is Nesta. I can’t wait to read her story now that she has become a Fae, something that she hates more than anything. And I totally shipping her with Cassian. Those snarky scenes that they have were pure gold.
I will never understand how people still like Tamlin, after we see how awful and manipulated he is. I know that at first everyone, including me, we were on our knees for the guy, but!!!… You can’t tell me that you didn’t figure out that something was really wrong with him when he was just sitting there, looking “the love of his life” being tortured that way.
If you have read my review for ACOTAR I talked about a huge spoiler that I learned by accident. It was that Feyre would fall in love with Rhys.
I liked that we saw so much of the inner circle. Cassian is my favorite and even if I’m not a huge fan of Mor’s I find even her character interested. I can’t wait to read the next book now that all the sisters are High Fae and will live all together.
It is a 5/5 from me and I can’t wait to read the next one. Something tells me that it would be even better.
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Until next time…
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