After all the hype, I was expecting maybe too much, and even more so because of my love for Maas’ Throne of Glass series.




Sorry this is a rant and not a review.




Right now I’m still processing everything but I can say that Feyre’s character did not do it for me. Her naivety and inner dialogue drove me nuts half the time which kills me to say because I really thought at the beginning she was going to be a much stronger character. I didn’t feel for her or connect with her in any way.




I probably read it so quick because I genuinely did love escaping into the world that Sarah J. Maas so effortlessly and beautifully built, but a part of me just didn’t love the story in general. The characters all seem very basic or predictable for the most part. The book definitely got a bit better around the 70% mark. I was about to put it down as a DNF when Feyre was going to the mountain to somehow (???) save Tamlin and boom, Rhysand makes his mark on the story and I became hooked from there on in.




Feyre’s story is mostly all about falling in love with Tamlin, her High Lord. What really irks me is that as he courts her from day 1, she really doesn’t seem to be totally alarmed by this? Never questioning how loving a fae would be going against her morals? She just seemed to roll with it which didn’t sit well with me. Like when he gives her a compliment on the first day after she’s cleaned up, she remarks on how pathetic it was rather than be worried that he was trying to come on to her, you know, as the dangerous enemy species?? I get that she did fear him and she was stubborn and held back in some way, but the way the love story played out in itself just felt too easy.




I’m a sucker for dark mysterious sexy male characters so it’s no wonder Rhysand has all the excitement?? Tamlin felt like he was too much of a lost puppy. I don’t feel anything for him sadly.




Ugh. I’m so sad this didn’t rock my world.




However, I will see about Rhysand in the second book and maybe in general the series will get better.