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exactly!!! sjm hates her. she literally hates her. Why would the House side with the IC? and yet...

the no sugar on the oatmeal thing used to be such a small moment that i didn’t really take note of but god if it isn’t one of the things that undermines ACOSF being a “”healing”” arc

she was literally malnourished and couldn’t pick what she ate. and to make matters worse, the house that she gave life to so she could have one fucking friend trained her like a dog and only fed her when she did right by the IC. sooo cool yeah you definitely only deserve food if you exist on the terms of your benevolent overlords

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I can't be the only one who thinks cassian is like Criston Cole in House of the Dragon.

It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for him. Fully expecting a woman to give up everything for him and playing the victim when she doesn't

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i really don’t know why people are acting like i’ve lost my marbles when i say cassian isn’t acting a mate should like i didn’t build the fucking rules man😭 if you’re gonna make an incredibly misogynist romance system where man big and strong and woman provide food and nurture, then man gets ooga booga caveman angry when other man so much as breathes wrong around woman, it is not my fault if i go 🤨 when woman gets a death threat and man goes “ope well ok let’s not dilly dally!”

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rick grimes <3

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...I'm starting to suspect rhysand's anger at nesta has nothing at all to do with feyre hunting... hmmm

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If nesta was killed off, do you think elain would become the new scapegoat? because I think it would be mor. I feel like there's a redundancy to her now and you know how rhysand likes his tools to be useful.

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i need to press that man like a flower. get in the book boy

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I overlooked how bad the acotar-acowar books were because I loved nesta. But then sjm treated nesta so abysmally in acofas and acosf that I'm frothing at the mouth in anger.

It's like how at the end of a relationship, you can recognize that a problem has existed the whole time but now that you're no longer in love you simply cannot put up with it

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the real question is why Rhysand and co makes the court of nightmares live under a mountain and expects them to be vaguely fucking normal. Would you be normal if you'd never seen the sun? a blooming flower? felt fresh air? Or would you be batshit insane and violent after seeing nothing but stone, stale air, and the same fucking people you've seen all your life??????? Idc if people hate me for it, I'm a CoN sympathizer. These people are fucking victims repeating the cycle trying to survive an entire world that hates them, a leader that will never stand for them or protect them. If Nesta had been sent there like Mor wanted her too, she only would have hated Rhysand more after seeing the abuse.

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"Mor might kill him." Uhhhhhh, she shakes in her boots every time they're in the same room.

Also, have one of your "warriors" dance with him. Azriel and Cassian are right there. Amren not being able to keep her cool speaks more of her diplomacy than anything else, and she's your second? Elain is well capable of volunteering so her argument about being coddled or whatever is ridiculous-- do the damn things your sisters protect you from. Right from the beginning he was forcing nesta to do this, acting like he considered all his options. Can he not dance himself? Is he not well-known for his skills in seduction? Better yet. No dance should be required if it's not freely offered, tf.

acosf is repeatedly rhys telling nesta to "dance, monkey, dance"

It's so weird to even throw Feyre's name into the mix when their plan is to seduce Eris to see what he can gain from being in alliance with them. She is mated to the high lord. Eris knows this. Everybody knows this. Even if she wasn't heavily pregnant, Eris isn't stupid enough to think he has a chance with Rhys' mate if she danced with him i hate this book

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mother-in-law energy. boy mom vibes. his accusing finger always points to a woman type beat

people being shocked at Rhys & Nesta being at odds (at odds being him threatening to execute her again) again in HoFAS is so funny to me.

I realized that man was out his fucking mind when Nesta saved Cassian's life and the only thing Rhys could think of was whether or not to scold her for the guilt Cassian would have.

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"he avoided her as much as possible" -- a blatant lie

"you aren't the first and you won't be the last" -- a glaring lack of sympathy or care

the only nice thing he has to say about her is about her body. he says she has a "piss-poor" attitude and implies he wants to fight her ("a desire of a different sort"). wth.

SJM is punishing nesta through cassian, for not liking the inner circle. Cassian siding with rhysand so many times and the way he sees feyre and Mor feels like a direct response of sjm. I don't believe she's capable of writing first-person and not self-insert. It's why nesta is at such opposition of herself and why cassian treats her like shit all of a sudden. Not to mention he's in love with rhysand. I mean he really is

Cassian’s reaction to a malnourished Feyre

Cassian’s reaction to a malnourished Nesta:

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nessian is disgustingly abusive and I can't stand people defending cassian.

he locked nesta up "for her safety" because she was 'mentally unwell', but then told her he hated her 3 times, publicly and privately.

everyone was complicit in what happened to nesta. azriel. elain. emerie. gwyn. literally all of them.

Pro: I'll never read another sjm book, I've been released in this way

con: the unfairness and pain from reading acosf has a hold on me and won't let me go

but sincerely reading a character be stripped of her modesty and reduced to a sex object makes me want to cry and throw up.

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I’m really committed to letting it go and not commenting on other people’s opinions that bother me, but I just read that Cassian “was patient and loved Nesta even when she didn’t deserve it”, among other things that I won’t recap, and you know what? I give up.

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Jurian is the anti-hero rhysand plays at.

“You went mad with—with Clythia. It was madness. It destroyed you.” “And I was glad to do it,” Jurian snarled. “I was glad to do it, if it bought us an edge in that war. I didn’t care what it did to me, what it broke in me. If it meant we could be free. And I have had five hundred years to think about it. While being held prisoner by my enemy. Five hundred years, Mor.” The way he said her name, so familiar and knowing— “You played the villain convincingly enough, Jurian,” Rhys purred.

Rhys telling Jurian that he plays the villain convincingly... dude what were you doing for the last 50 years?!

Why is Jurian's sacrifice for his enslaved people seen as madness because it was a brutal? It was war. If one of the IC had done it, they'd be lauded for their bravery

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I can see beron giving Feyre a piece of his power to save her life UTM because he didn’t know it would give her his power to wield and I could see him looking at it as debt-paid

But the idea that Beron would offer some of his power to Rhsyand after knowing how it manifested in Feyre is laughable. Not to mention Tamlin. rhysand got Tamlin’s family killed and took his girl. Feyre attempted to destroy his court and convince him that she cheated on him with his best Buddy. And I’m supposed to believe, as a reader, that Tamlin felt guilty over her and wants her happiness above the loss of some of his power? So guilty, in fact, he’d offer his power to the man who stood by Amarantha’s side all those years? Which brings me to the winter court. I won’t even say it, you already know.

Not to mention this novelizes the Cauldron and it’s role in acomaf. It’s so easily breakable and can so easily be fixed by one man? The creation of life itself? It was described as something truly horrific when it was first introduced and with what happen to the Queen and how Nesta and elain reacted to it. But then later Amren and Rhys treat it trivially, with Rhys fishing her out like he’s bobbing for apples. It was all very anticlimactic.

I really hated this entire bit.

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It would have created a much more relatable and natural tension between the characters and in Nessian’s and elucien’s bond relationships if Nesta’s powers were recognized as Autumn Court and elain’s were Spring after emerging from the cauldron. This way the strife between sisters would still exist. Lucien already left Autumn for Spring so his and Elain’s romance could bloom naturally. Whereas, Cassian would never be willing to leave his home for Nesta, but Nesta needs to be in the autumn court for her own comfort and to learn her power. Right person, wrong location is something that happens in real life. There would be no need for character assassinations and the main plot themes could still exist. This would even create consistency with the first book and what Feyre painted on the dresser drawers for each sister.

Lucien and Nesta being in the IC is forced for no reason. This too is about control. The narrative is so unlikable because Feyre should not get their cake and eat it too. There needs to be a balance and a give and take here. And I honestly feel like the editors are on leave.