Leia Armer

One Star and that’s only because I liked the idea behind the book when It was recommended to me… My Problems with ACOTAR are as follows: The Characters and their interaction with each other, or more specifically their lack of interactions with each other. We see Tamlin & Lucien talk and Lucien & Freye talk more than we see Tamlin and Freye interact with each other. Heck for the better half of the book I was thinking Lucien and Freye were going to be the main pairing, they at least had the whole ‘Character A being hostile to Character B before slowly coming around to them’ kind of energy. But no when Tamlin gives Freye a way to paint she suddenly thinks ‘maybe he’s not so bad after all’ I will give SJM this she does know how to write a steamy almost explicit sex scene, it was vague enough not to be super explicit, but why it was in a YA novel I don’t know. Yet somehow by the end Freye has fallen in love with him enough to face Amarantha where she will likely die in some horrible gruesome fashion.. Not to mention she left behind her family.. The one she was trying to get back to the entire first part of this very same book… The Pacing of the Plot was far to fast I would have slowed down when Freye was taken to The Spring Court to give us more interactions between the Main Characters, I’d have brought Rhysand in as an antagonist/possible rival for Tamlin’s affections for Freye. When Freye is sent back home I’d have made her be there for longer and have the end of the first book, or at least the first part of the first book, stop when she decided to go back for Tamlin. After she returns she finds one of the servants there, she finds out where Tamlin has been taken and almost immediately decides she’s going to go after him… no thought to her own safety and well being, nor does she take time to prepare for what she might have to face, aside from taking a quiver of arrows and two daggers… I wish we’d been given more before she decides to face off against Amarantha because she is hopelessly outmatched in every way, I’m honestly surprised she won in the end… Long rant short, the plot was too rushed and Freye was not at all prepared to face down Amaratha in any way shape or form. What this sums up to is a poorly written book while the plot had potential the relationships between the characters were so rushed I couldn’t have cared if anyone had died in the end. Don't even get me started on the World Building, it was alright I liked what we got, but we needed more of it. I don’t recommend this book to anyone over the age of 18. It's a waste of time, that being said, don't read it if you’re under 16 with the vague steamy content it does have. Leia Armer