AJ

Really wish I'd never picked this book up. Nesta might be the most unlikable MC ever, not helped by her victim complex and retconning of previous behaviors/actions. You can't just show that she verbally abused her youngest sister for years and took advantage of her to the point where she was haunted by the insults and showing major trauma symptoms from it- and then just not address it at all? Why should I care about Nesta? Why is her development just about her pain and not the pain she causes others? Nesta prioritizes her own feelings so much that she abuses people and never actually has to apologize for it. Feyre just forgives her and Nesta just pities herself more. Poor Nesta, must be so hard to be a horrible person shown to derive pleasure from insulting your little sister repeatedly and thinking things like how she never cared about Feyre being abused? Why should I care about Nesta's problems, she creates them for herself and has people bending over backwards to provide for her anyway. She won't get a job, won't take care of herself, won't stop hurting other people because all that matters is her pain, and then we get what, a brief I love you to the sister she abused and giving away some of the power she refused to train and didn't want? Meanwhile she thinks delusional thinks out of jealousy like the sister she abused (and has literally been tortured to death and is a victim of DV) has always gotten whatever she wanted. Give me a break. That's not development, that's taking the easy way out so that Nesta doesn't actually face the consequences of her own actions. She doesn't have to do the hard work of earning forgiveness because her feelings are apparently more important than anyone else who she's hurt. Also the pregnancy plot was so contrived for her "redemption" and is nonsensical.