Alyshia Stauffer

-Can Death herself save the lives of the ones she loves and also find herself finally living?- Unpopular opinion: I loved this book, and I've liked Nesta the entire way through the series. She's like the scrubby side of the sponge in the beginning. This book allows you to see what she is fighting internally. I know that a lot of people think that doesn't give her the right to be a jerkweed like she was throughout, BUT different people handle situations differently and she went down the darkest path she could and didn't know how to pull herself out of it after everything changed. She just didn't want to face it & would have rather died. Happens a lot in real life. I did want to smack her for upsetting Cassian as he tried to help. Because we love Cassian. Everyone said it was boring, but I thought Nesta working through everything and learning to train and all of the above at the House of Wind was the best part. Watching her character actually emerge from her haze of depression enough to help others along side her that have also been through something they couldn't stop. I am left with unanswered questions though, Az, Elain and Lucien? Sigh. I cried so hard when Nesta broke down with Cassian on the hike. "I can't undo it. I can't fix it. I can't fix that he's dead. I can't fix what I said to Feyre. I can't fix any of the horrible things I've done. I can't fix me."

3.5/5 - Welcome to Winter Solstice after the war. I understand why this book was necessary, ACOWAR was so heavy that this is a breath of fresh air. You get to see the Inner circle acting normal and doing normal everyday things. There are no big plot points that really push the series forward... except Nesta. You see more of what Nesta is going through and how she is handling everything that happened to her and everyone else. We get an introduction to a few new side characters as well in this one. And you see more of rebuilding of Velaris and The Night Court from the war... "The weaver went on, "I have to create, or it was all for nothing. I have to create, or I will crumple up with despair and never leave my bed. I have to create because I have no other way of voicing this." Her hand rested on her heart, and my eyes burned."

-The war has come, who will survive and who will lose everything?- This book is my #1 favorite. There is literally so much happening in this book that I just kept reading and reading and reading, because there were a handful of stories I wanted to know the ends to immediately. This is the climax of the series as far as I'm concerned (because both ACOTAR and ACOMAF were setting up for this war). This book gets a lot of hate and people don't like it as much as MAF but to me it's the best one. I have NEVER slammed a book shut and shook it at the air cursing so much in my entire life. I've never hated one man (real or fictional) so much that I just growled at the book while I shook it. This book had me in my feelings in more than just angry ways as well. You meet more characters that appear to be Old Fae Gods as well. Feyre facing a BUNCH of her fears and accepting everything that she is was a beautiful moment in the book (this doesn't spoil anything). Just talking about this I want to go reread it already. GO READ THE SERIES.

I just... don't even know where to start. First off, you will see that this is almost everyone's favorite book, (it's my 3rd in the entire series). I'm going to keep my review here without spoilers, but GoodReads and Amazon have the spoiler alerts with the overview. I got through ACOTAR quickly, but this book, this book I ATE UP. You're walking through everything with Feyre, her changing relationships, her despair all of it. It punches you directly in the feelings. You'll find new characters in this book, you'll find out more than your current characters. Everything gets deeper in this book and it's just... swoon. Feyre is such a strong FMC that you can't help but like her. The male characters are along the entire spectrum. This is where the lines are drawn for people and their character favorites and I get it. This book is still setting everything up for the climax of the Prythian story and it's WELL worth it. go read it.

4.5/5- The journey of a human in love with a High Fae Lord and their fight to save his home. Book Tok got me. So many people talking about the ACOTAR series that I couldn't resist by scrolling by anymore (because it was something I hadn't read so I just scrolled by). Basically, I went into this blind, didn't even read the blurbs. I am SO GLAD I DID. A lot of the reviews say that this book is lacking in so many areas, is it the best book of the series, no certainly not, but it's not awful either. It starts out a little slow at the beginning with the world building and the introductions of characters, but what book doesn't, you have to know where the story is set and who these people are before you get into something like this. Highly recommend this series for anyone starting out in the fantasy realm of reading. This was only the second one I read and I ATE UP the entire series in like 7 days or something. Go read it and judge for yourself. You won't be disappointed.

There are spoilers throughout this review. o So to start this off I absolutely have loved everything that I’ve read that Lisa Jewell has written, every time. This was no exception. The writing in this as if it was a script for a Netflix documentary played out in my head exactly as that. The beginning of every chapter is basically stage directions, example: camera pans across a desk etc., and then it breaks into recording from the podcast, and then the story goes on from there like you’re being brought into the story that way. I loved that for everything that it was, I definitely didn’t think that would be an easy way to write this story and these characters, but having the characters tell their own stories was freaking brilliant. o Josie Fair is turning 45. Her husband is quite a bit older than her, one daughter is out of the house and the other stays holed up in her room, gaming 100% of the time. We never hear from her. However, Josie decides to switch it up and they end up at a fancier restaurant and see another crew come in with a birthday balloon, etc. Josie cannot stop staring, and ends up following the girl that appears to be the center of attention into the bathroom. We find out that this is Alix Summer, a podcaster, and it too, is her birthday. o After some thinking about her dinner and meeting Alix, Josie decides to look more into her, finds out she is a podcaster, and listens to all of her podcasts. Josie is unhappy with her marriage and where she is at in life compared to Alix. She realizes that Alix’s podcasts are stories of women who lived through trauma and pushed through and made something amazing of themselves. Josie finds Alix and offers her something different. Something oddly different. Throughout the story you will see Alix ignore her intuition MULTIPLE times and I wanted to scream at that. o Alix agrees to Josie’s idea of a podcast of a woman in a place where she is making the decision to change her life and her situation because Alix is looking for something different to do. So starts “Hi, I’m Your Birthday Twin” o There are a bunch of strange things that happen and then one night in the middle of the night Josie shows up to Alix’s house after a dinner there that Josie, her husband, Alix and her husband Nathan were supposed to have and Nathan didn’t show up for, bloodied saying that her husband hit her. Alix allows her to stay. She ends up staying for an extended period of time and then the events that cause the Netflix series start to unravel through the telling of the story. I will not summarize those though because that would ruin the entire book. o Just know that the entire time I was screaming in my brain at Alix to listen to her gut because the gut is never wrong! The twists and turns in this story are absolutely wild, and I still don’t feel like I have the correct answer to my questions even after finishing it. Which is amazing, I may re-read just to see if I can come up with any other theories a second or third time. If you’re looking for a book to keep you guessing the ENTIRE way through (and afterward) you should definitely read this book.