There's nothing here that adds to the story. It's just the gang celebrating Winter Solstice. And that's fine because this is a novella, but it's over 200 pages so something could've happened. Other than Nesta shutting everyone down.

After reading this I have some wrap-up thoughts on this series. I'm assuming that this story is finished and the next books, if they end up happening, will follow Nesta and Cassian and whatever happens in the Ilyrian Mountains, (as well as eventually dealing with the mortal queens the new world). So everything else other than their relationship and whatever Nesta is going though that makes her even more Nesta-like than usual should be nicely tied and wrapped up with a red bow. Here I go then with my random thoughts:

- Tamlin. It pisses me off to no end that there is no closure with Tamlin other than Rhys weirdly making him food. I get that Feyre doesn't want to see him but I also think that after he saved both her life and her mate's during the war, she could at least talk to him and give him some sort of closure. He brought everything upon himself but I feel pitty for him. He doesn't even get closure with Lucien.

- Lucien. Why hasn't Feyre told him about his father yet?! If there's a bigger story there to tackle then fine, it can be done in the following books, but at least let him know. I just feel like Tamlin and Lucien's characters were tossed away after Feyre got back to the Night Court at the beginning of A Court of Wings and Ruin. It pisses me off.

- Lucien and Elain's mating bond. I really hope they completely disregard the mating bond. As Rhys explained once, a mating bond doesn't necessarily mean love. I'd like to see Elain and Az together, they're such a cute couple. And Lucien could very well end up with Vassa.

- Rhys. I just realized that, as shocking as it seems, Rhys has no character arc. During A Court of Thorns and Roses and especially A Court of Mist and Fury we change our perception of him from wickedly evil to a really good guy. I mean, I was already in love with him by the end of A Court of Thorns and Roses. But that's just the reader getting to know who Rhys is. He doesn't really change. His situation clearly does, but he doesn't. His big character flaw, which is putting everyone else before himself no matter what, remains by the end of the story. That flaw is what made him Amarantha's whore before A Court of Thorns and Roses and it's that same flaw that

gets him killed

at the end of A Court of Wings and Ruin. What does he learn during those 3 books? Nothing, it seems. That's why, as much as I love him, he surprisingly fell kinda flat for me during A Court of Wings and Ruin and I was much more interested in Cassian.