A Court of Wings and Ruin Paperback – 16 February 2021

No spoilers here.Okay. I can't even. This book is so good!How do I move on from this? How do I read anything else? What is literature?Okay. Trying to get a grip on my emotions, now.Find me on instagram for queries or discussions.The story picks up a few weeks after acomaf and Fayre literally kicks ass. Rhysand is wonderful as ever and Sarah J Maas manages so many different storylines and gives depth to various individual characters all the while introducing more! She is the real queen. All hail!No but really... She manages to make me fall more in love with Rhysand (I didn't think that such a feat was even possible) and serves me so many other lovable alternatives (which I absolutely will not consider at all as my dream of Rhysand is alive) like Tarquin, Azriel, Cassian, and Helion and on and on. Ehem.I did not have a single speck of doubt that this story would be amazing. And boy did it not disappointment. Congratulations to Sarah on her first ever finale (of sorts) and I hope the next book will be about Azriel. Please! I'm desperate, here.That's all I'll say about the book and it's writing. I know I'm not making much sense and at this point I don't even care much about such a thing but here are all the things that I loved about the book:The court details.And oh so many details! I loved how the courts seemed in my mind and boy if I don't need one of you smart sketches out there to make fan art.Nesta.Bad ass mother bitch with so much sass that not even Celaena (from Throne of glass) would stand a chance in front of her.Cassian.I'm in love. Need I say more? Love love love love love.A certain character who successfully overcomes a set of stigmas placed along them due to their actions in the past. Ehem.The suriel.Don't even get me started or I'll drop spoilers.All the monsters. Including Amren.I'm so excited for Amren. The other months were given character and boy what a character they had.A certain human who was in captivity for 500 years.Who would have guessed?Mor's story.I don't care if half the fandom disagrees. That part made me tear up. I do wish she would tell Az but I completely understand why she thinks she can't.Feyre and Rhysand's relationship.I cannot stress this enough. I love how supportive they are of each other. I love how none of them think that they are more important than the other and how they allow each other to make their own choices. I can't even. Rhysand, where you at? I need you in my life.The diverse characters.What a breath of fresh air, that was. To discover that so many LGBTQ characters also exist in this universe. Showcasing love and acceptance and yet not ignoring the stigma. Well done, Sarah.Now moving on to what I didn't like about this book:I needed more from Cassian and Nesta.I will not elaborate on that but you all need to know that there is a special target edition will a Cassian and Nesta excerpt out there where stuff happens! You need to read it before ACOWAR for sure.Elain and Lucian.What is happening there? It was all so unsatisfactory. Although I hope that the topic will be dwelled upon in further books.Foreshadowing.Something that happens in the end was being foreshadowed in the entire book and that kind of took away the shock of the moment. It still was a fairly dreadful feeling but I do hope that there was less foreshadowing.It ended.Yes, people. This book does comes to an end.And only you can prepare yourself for it. I wasn't prepared and so I'm going to go ahead and read it all over again. That is not to say that the end wasn't satisfactory in the least bit. Just that when is the movie / TV show adaption coming? I can't stand it. I need more. 💚 And to wait another year for the next installment which is not likely to contain Rhys and his awesomeness... The mere thought sends shudders down my spine.

When an author sows seeds long before a reader enters the garden of their work so that they can find unexpected, beautiful blooms and deadly thorns along their journey … that’s certainly something that’s hard to lose an addiction for.A Court of Wings and Ruin brings three books worth of plot strands together and begins braiding them together in a way that’s impossible to look away from. Every single character who has either been mentioned or seen before makes surprising appearances in this book. Every single scene of the previous books, every single conversation all comes together and you start to see a beautiful—terrifyingly so—painting come together. Because that’s truly what SJM is doing. She’s painting, first with a pencil, the impression faint and then with layers and layers of colour before an unimaginable thing happens: light hits the canvas and you’re perhaps seeing angles, hues, images within images you’ve never seen before nor particularly expecting to see now. You find you’re sentimental about things or people you’d never expected yourself to have developed a bond with.I just want to state that: A Court of Mist and Fury will undoubtably be my favourite book in the series so far (including after A Court of Silver Flames). I’m going to try to explain why. ACoWaR book brings the protagonist to a certain light that I’m not sure even she figures a way to fully deal with. And while showing the protagonist as imperfect is perfect, it felt like that this dubious space in the writing was handled by assuaging the reader into seeing a certain other character being painted almost wholly black with a spot of grey here and there. That plot thread fell apart for me personally. None of which happened in ACoMaF. There shall never be another ACoMaF. Everrrrrr!But, all the other relationships in the book exploded to its pinnacle and comes together at the face of death, pain and magic pitted against will. I won’t lie, I was crushed at many surprising points in the book and reformed once again. The book tears you down but somehow does so by showing you a certain strength in you. I can’t explain it without getting spoiler-y… but I have to say this series certainly has my heart.Another super smart thing that SJM does is set up open possibilities for other people in this book and leaves the reader already invested in whatever was to come next with no expectations but with so much of hope.I would definitely recommend this series and I certainly think I was lucky to have been able to consume Feyre’s story in one whole gluttonous gulp. So, if you were like me and were hesitating, I implore you not to. Dive into this book and I know there are many many many reasons I could state, but all I want to say is that it speaks so much about personal struggle, mental health, love, loss and betrayal in a way that we could apply to our very immediate situations in some way or another. So, read it, because it quietly validates you and reminds you that you’ve got this.