okay sarah!!!! too long & sort of all over the place in terms of pacing, but/and, MY GOD, what a serve, i had a great time. the woman knows how to make you care! 

i think this one suffers a bit for the strength of its side characters; the bulk of feyre’s development is obviously in acomaf, so she is somewhat less dynamic here as a POV narrator. like her time in the spring court could have been MUCH more complex and sarah chose instead to sort of speed-run through it to get back to the night, which i get bc she Knows her readers love the night, but found a little too Easy. the whole book is too easy, really. the sacrifices don’t last; nothing is truly lost; and therefore the pain doesn’t mean as much as it did in acomaf, where everything was SO in flux from under the mountain. there’s less at stake emotionally, so feyre stalls out a bit, and rhysand isn’t given nearly as much to do.

but no matter, bc the parts that work WORK. by which i mean!!!!! NESTA ARCHERON!!!! my GOD, character of ALL TIME. i ate up every nesta line with the most rapt attention. “nothing about nesta could frighten me.” “she was a freshly forged sword, waiting to draw blood.” “unyielding and without one ounce of fear.” when she raises hybern’s head and just stares at it???? that’s my bitch. that’s my number one cunt. every bizarre, intense, charged moment with her and cassian? my ABSOLUTE shit. literally frothing at the mouth for acosf.

will also note lucien & amren are great here, and that i felt legitimately emotional at the return of their father, and all the flying imagery. good shit there. a very loving 3 stars