I didn’t dislike this book, it’s not bad, but I have many negative feelings. This one is both better and worse than the first one. Story-wise it’s better, deeper probably, even though it could have been 200 pages shorter, and I really wish the author wouldn’t use “male” and “female” and “mate” so much.

Rhys & Co are better characters to spend time with than the spring court, other than maybe Lucien, and their story was interesting enough

. I still don’t like Feyre until at least halfway through when she finally starts helping herself. The writing in this one was better, but the character development enraged me. Feyre ended book 1 on a traumatized but powerful note. She was strong willed, and, while young and naive, she fought for what she wanted and loved. That basically reset in this where she was weak and refused to actually fight or push or even talk about what she was feeling and going through except in the worst possible moments, but at the same time she also didn’t consider that those around her were also wildly traumatized. It was intensely frustrating. It took her

going to be with someone who could basically read her mind

before she would start to help herself. Where did the girl from the first book go?? I get why she was like that, because trauma, but it made me dislike her more than I did to start. And then she finally fights and is coming into her own and i start to like her, and she stupidly does the thing. I know it all comes together in the end to serve a purpose for the next book, but I deeply considered deleting the book from my kindle and forgetting about it forever when

Feyre is explicitly told not to put the two book halves together and then she does.

 

Will I read the next one? Yes, of course. Will I still not like Feyre? Probably. I’m sure it will also make me rant about it and feel a type of way, but I’ll still have a good time.