A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR Book 2)

I am officially in love with this series. I have a lot of new things to tell you guys, both in the book, my relationship with this series, my opinions, and what has actually been going on in my life. The latter of these I plan to cover in the Holiday review post I plan to make in the next few days—don’t freak out if it’s later than that; I think we’ve established “the next few days” is code for “whenever I freaking feel like it.”

Either way, back to the book review. Guys. Guys. That is the only word I have left in my vocabulary apparently. I know that I shouldn’t write reviews right after I’ve finished a book because my emotions are too raw and there’s a possibility they’ll cloud my actual rating of a book. Like, I could have really loved a book initially and given it a relatively high rating, but then I realized that I didn’t actually like it as much as I remembered.

That danger is always present, but I feel the threat of not having a raw enough memory of the book just as acutely, if not more. I would rather give a generous rating to a book that may not be my ultimate favorite than forget how much I fell in love with a book and give a horrendously lousy review because of my crap memory. Besides, I trust my memory enough that I don’t think I would forget if I didn’t like a book and give it a high rating.

That’s my reasoning in case you were wondering how I go about reviewing. Anyway, back to this wonderful book. This book was absolutely amazing, but I feel like reading it was a rollercoaster. The book itself is really long (620-something pages), but the way I went about reading it was a little hair-brained.

I started A Court of Mist and Fury a few days after Christmas, but it was extremely slow going in the beginning. This was because I was getting back into the rhythm of school, i.e. falling back underwater in paperwork. So, I started the book but only made it about 50 pages in before we went on vacation for New Year’s. I knew then that I would have plenty of time to get into ACOMAF, and, sure enough, I immediately began tearing through the book.

However, I had lent my sister ACOTAR a few days before, and, boy, she literally inhales books. I have never met someone who reads faster than her or my other sister, and I began to feel very stressed as the pages between us got smaller and smaller, even as I tried frantically to read more. It was a losing battle, and she managed to finish ACOTAR before I finished ACOMAF. Therefore, on New Year’s Day, I found myself staying up late to finish the book.

Even as I write this, my sister’s sitting next to me already halfway through ACOMAF. I have no idea how we’re going to manage the next three books in the series. Just what I needed: added stress in my book as well as reality. Thanks a bunch, Cleo, love you.

Either way, I absolutely loved this book, despite trying to speed ahead. I am officially Rhysand’s property, and I ship Feysand until my dying days. I’ve also already started A Court of Wings and Ruin, so I’m totally ripping on Tamlin and the rest of those @-holes. I’m also so into the Inner Circle vibes (Cassian, my baby) and I love the whole friend group. I totally also ship Cassian and Nesta (what’s their couple’s name?).

But, the whole vibe of the book is so awesome, and I get warm fuzzy feelings just thinking about Feyre getting her bad beotch energy back on. She absolutely deserves how she’s come so entirely into herself and I love Rhys for helping her do that.

Genre: adult fantasy, romance

Age: 16+

Rating: 10/10