#acotar critical

[vnfadinglight]

There are two ways of reading ACOTAR:

- reading about what happened

- reading about what Feyre thinks happened

And it's in the same books!

[fenrysmoonbeamswife]

why was Feyre able to train at the HOW but Nesta was forced to train at the Illyrian steps in Illyrian leathers that made her uncomfortable??

there are all these very specific ways that Nesta is treated that just show it was never ever about helping her, it was always about control and anyone who thinks differently is not paying attention at an alarming level

[aphroditeofcnidus]

SJM's idea of what is romantic sometimes is very messed up.How is Rhysand and Feyre's pact to die together romantic?I could understand it if both were much older,had strong,adult heirs,who no longer needed their parents and had completed the work they needed to accomplish in the NC.Now,they could leave no heir,which means that the throne could go to Keir or someone else like him,leave an underage child an orphan,who if chosen by magic could be in a very difficult position.He would have no childhood.Someone else would rule in his place until he became of age and would also act as his guardian and who would that be?Cassian and Azriel don't have the skills for this,Mor is incapable of governing Hewn City,let alone the entire NC,this leaves us Amren.Who on earth would trust a young,impressionable and vulnerable child ruler under Amren's care? She's power hungry and would try to manipulate him that's for sure.

It is stupid enough that high lords don't seem to care enough about who succeeds them.Rhysand's father was 900 and still had no heirs,why?Because he waited for his mate,which is a rare bond,to begin with?Why hadn't he taken a wife all this time?Helion is also rather old,probably as old as Beron,who has a 500 year old son and Rhysand says that Lucien,who doesn't even know Helion is his father, is his heir.This means he doesn't have any children,not even illegitimate ones,that he has acknowledged.

All this isn't romance, it's irresponsibility and there's nothing romantic about an irresponsible prince.

[novaricewrites]

The aspect of 'toxic masculinity' and traditionalist views throughout ACOTAR absolutely warrants more focus.

But I think the '1950s shit husband' feeling that you get from Feyre is because the narrative promotes a version of performative feminism for the patriarchy.

She ignores meaningful rights for all women and only she matters, where she climbs up from the 'bottom' and lands a reliable male authority who holds the real power. Sure she might make general sweeping statements or do 'nice' things for one or two people, but she doesn't actually back this up with actions where it matters (e.g the Illyrian women and Hewn City).

Her blatant disregard for domestic labors (work which is often associated with women's work) and her selfish view of the world (the 'I/we suffered more than anyone else') is just the tip of the iceberg. The narrative simultaneously ignores and objectifies women repeatedly (either in general or with specific female characters)

Feyre is just one of the embodiments of the shittiest version of a conservative white woman's 'acceptable' version of empowerment that's built on the oppression of other groups. Feyre's mentality is 'it's fine if other people suffer as long as I am happy'.

Im too exhausted to support this statement right now, but I’d love to hear your takes on it:

I think Feyre really embodied this sense of toxic masculinity from “traditionalist views”, that while everyone suffers at the hands of her doing so, people like her sisters, Lucien, Tamlin, the women in her court, etc, suffer the most.

We all know she’s not a girl’s girl until it comes to Mor. It even gave me the biggest ick the first time I read Feyre think “I’ve never had a female friend before”. Like what do you mean??? You were rich for eleven years, there were women in the village to talk to as well- you didn’t start hunting until you were fourteen- what were you doing for nineteen years? Are you that unlikeable that not a single woman will befriend you?

And I’m of the full belief that Feyre coming home after hunting, tracking her dirty ass clothing through the house with no care, belittling her sisters who do domestic labor because she doesn’t view it as valuable, demanding she gets a bath immediately and overall being a fucking verbally abusive menace is exactly the same vibe as a 1950’s husband coming back from work.

I apologize but I’ve literally never hated a character more in my entire LIFE than Feyre Archeron, and it baffles me that there are people who like her. HOW.

[viajandopelomar]

Inconsistencies of ACOTAR ✨✨

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Why are there so many merchants with so many expensive products in a village that is apparently so poor, with so many people in situations similar to Archeron? It doesn't make sense that they would actually earn anything selling to them, because poor humans in isolated villages like this usually make their own clothes and so on. At least, that's what's common in fantasy. At least, the little we have of human territory makes us think that this is no different in ACOTAR. It's even stranger that when the market happens once a week, the merchants with expensive products are always there. Like, it's an isolated village. It has to be isolated, otherwise why didn't Feyre find work somewhere else, with something really exhausting?

We have Isaac Hale being introduced as a skinny boy in winter and even his hair has thinned, and look, he is the only son of the richest farmer in the village. Meanwhile, we saw two wives of other farmers being described as beautiful and plump. If they are described like that, it is strange that Isaac, heir to the richest, has become skinny. It is also strange that in a VILLAGE there are so many farmers. Does every village have that many farmers? If so, most of the human lands south of Prythian belong to the farmers. But they still live in villages so I suppose they are not that rich 🫠. Only compared to the other villagers, I suppose.

And the whole Archeron poverty thing gets even funnier when you read it and remember that his money lasted a year in that cabin. Like, why not invest that??? But magically after Tamlin showed up with the chests of gold the old man became the best investor in those lands again. It almost seems like he was always a terrible businessman and only got rich because Tamlin enchanted the gold 🤡

🇧🇷Incongruências de acotar ✨✨

Por que há tantos comerciantes com tantos produtos caros numa aldeia que aparentemente é tão pobre, com tantas pessoas em situações similares aos Archeron? Não faz sentido que eles realmente ganhem algo vendendo para eles, porque humanos pobres em aldeias isoladas assim normalmente fazem suas próprias roupas e etc. Ao menos, é o comum em fantasias. Ao menos, o pouco que temos do território humano nos faz pensar que isso não é diferente em ACOTAR. É ainda mais estranho que quando o mercado ocorre uma vez por semana, os comerciantes com produtos caros sempre estão lá. Tipo, é uma vila isolada. Tem que ser isolada, caso contrário porque Feyre não encontrou trabalho em outro lugar, com algo mesmo exaustivo?

Temos Isaac Hale sendo apresentado como um rapaz magricela em épocas de inverno e até o cabelo dele ficou ralo, e olhe, ele é o único filho do fazendeiro mais rico da aldeia. Enquanto isso, vimos duas esposas de outros fazendeiros seren descritas como bonitas e gorduchas. Se elas são descritas assim é estranho que Isaac, herdeiro do mais rico, tenha ficado magricela. Também é estranho que numa ALDEIA tenha tantos fazendeiros. Toda aldeia tem tantos fazendeiros assim? Se for assim a maioria das terras humanas ao sul de Prythian são dos fazendeiros. Mas eles ainda moram em aldeias então suponho que não sejam tão ricos assim 🫠. Apenas se comparados aos outros aldeões, suponho.

E toda a coisa da pobreza dos Archeron fica ainda mais engraçada quando você lê e lembra que o dinheiro dele durou um ano naquela cabana. Tipo, por que não investir isso??? Mas magicamente depois que Tamlin apareceu com os baús de ouro o velho voltou a ser o melhor investidor daquelas terras. Parece até que ele sempre foi um péssimo comerciante e só conseguiu riqueza porque Tamlin enfeitiçou o ouro 🤡.

[ladydeath-vanserra]

we get two instances of Nesta and Elain buying "frivolous" items. Elain talks about a ribbon (yes so frivolous) and then another chisel for their father. feyre you let your father get away with doing absolutely jack shit besides carving his stupid little figurines. he supposedly tries to sell those so why wouldn't elain buy him a chisel to try (and fail 😒) to sell his stupid wood carvings

[cactusboil]

Mating bond in ACOTARverse

It’s more like a torture method. Why does it exist? What purpose does it serve?

Does it ensure that the couple would be happy together? No.

Is it about equal powered mates making powerful babies? Also no, because why would a bond form between an Illyrian fae and high fae considering pregnancy would be risky.

Is it because they can share powers? No

Literally anything? No

Edit: previous mating bond theory

[dippedinmelancholy]

Is it weird if I say I think I might have found Elain a bit more endearing if Feyre was right, and she really was just kind of . . . dim witted? Didn’t think enough to think she could actually help? Not cruel, not exactly stupid but just . . .an airhead from a life of being coddled by her entire family? Glenda (Wicked) is endearing, for this exact kind of reasoning.

It could have been interesting, see her thrust into the cauldron, into the war, into the world of the fae and suddenly gifted as a seer, struggling with what could come to pass, forcing her to actually think about her actions and their consequences, and everyone else’s. Air headed isn’t an insult imo, it’s a character flaw that could have led to some interesting things and character development.

Instead ACOSF makes it so clear she’s not an airhead, she sees a lot of things and always has, and just . . .hasn’t cared as long as it didn’t negatively affect her. It’s a special kind of cruelty, one that is really passive and honestly really common in the real world. Elain kind of has that southern american aura of, it’s fine if you’re miserable and falling apart and borderline suicidal behind closed doors . . .as long as you’re presentable, faking interactions with your family, and maintaining a respectable reputation, regardless of the truth. Don’t embarrass your family or upset the social balance, no matter the cost to your soul and mind.

Unfortunately that makes it really hard for me to care about her beyond “I don’t want to see this character expressly hurt, but she honestly sucks.”

[youareatragedy]

I get why SJM’s fae are basically just humans with pointy ears and magic. Because if SJM had chosen to give them even the "basic fae traits" like being unable to lie, Rhysand would have been dead immediately or during that High Lord meeting when Kallias asked about those children. Viviane would have ripped Rhysand’s heart out with her bare hands.

[wishcamper]

What I should be doing: my taxes

What I am doing: a comprehensive analysis of Rhys as a cult leader using Dr. Steven Hassan’s B.I.T.E. Model of Authoritarian Control

[silverflameataraxia]

I thought the point of ACOSF was for Nesta to heal into a version of herself that the IC approved of, but in HOFAS they still don't like her, so what, exactly, did ACOSF accomplish?

I feel like any good that came out of that book was ripped to shreds in HOFAS. Nesta still isn't healed as we see her lost and spiraling back into that pit of despair. She still isn't happy. Nessian aren't in a good place as Cassian still can't stick up for Nesta, and he still won't defend and protect her. Worse, Nesta no longer feels safe around Cassian because she either thinks he'll harm her directly or that he won't stop harm from coming to her. Nezriel aren't in a good place since Az clearly won't lift a finger to protect Nesta from execution. Nesta and Rhys still hate each other, and he still wants her dead, even though he's only alive because of her. Nesta still isn't getting along with Feyre and Elain (which isn't surprising since she's the only one owning up to anything. Elain and Feyre are shit sisters who need to own up to it rather than constantly putting the blame of their failed relationship on Nesta). Nesta still isn't getting along with the IC, she's still asserting that she's not a part of the Night Court, and it's not her home. So what did the almost-700 page book accomplish?

I do think everything is setting the stage for Nesta to find out she's Starborn and reawaken the Dusk Court, but why couldn't she have opted for the human lands or try to seek refuge in another court for her book? The only thing that wasn't ruined in HOFAS was Gwyn and Emerie, but why couldn't they have been females that she met outside of the Night Court, away from the IC? When it comes to the IC, the only thing ACOSF accomplished was all the parallels between Tamlin's treatment of Feyre and the IC's treatment of Nesta, and Lucien/Cassian's complicity. So was the point of the book to start an arc to challenge the IC?

[sadlybluespirited]

Rambling Thoughts

Rhysand, Cassian and Azriel have their trauma all situated in the violence against female Illyrians. Their mothers are all their starting points. Rhysand's mother's wings being almost clipped, Cassian's birth being a sexually violent act committed against his mother, Azriel's mother being cast out of a home with little financial recourse and restricted from having access to her (presumably) only child. These are all where their stories are written to have started and shaped who they are. There is a brotherly bond formed in part because of this history when they find each other. However there's also a level of exceptionalism in their story.

All three somehow escape the trappings of becoming like their male peers. One thing that makes them even more different. Cassian's poverty, Rhysand's half high fae status. I'm assuming for Azriel, it's his stunted growth from years of abuse and his status as a shadowsinger. Illyria primarily serves as a backdrop to their stories hence the nonexistent world building in the story which becomes confusing given the misogynistic society they live in, Cassian wouldn't be the only child born from such an act and given that EDIT: (it's female Illyrians, not male Illyrians who sometimes have children outside of Illyria) male Illyrians have children outside of Illyria) seen in some of the text I've seen from acosf, there's half Illyrian children running around somewhere in Prythian like Rhysand. Yet we don't see Cassian nor Rhysand make any effort towards seeking out these individuals, seeing tragedy in other male Illyrian stories. They don't really form part of the narrative. It's only these three. We don't even know much about Devlon (not excusing his misogyny) and his upbringing. We just know he's the most agreeable male Illyrian so far. So I'd argue that from what I've seen (everything before acosf), Cassian and Rhysand primarily are detached from their male counterparts as a whole. They "love their people but..." is referenced in the text and I've asked myself, what do you love about them? I never really felt like I had an answer. It might be that they say this because their mothers were Illyrians and for them to fully hate Illyria means they hate them too. We know Rhysand's mother wanted Rhys to understand his culture and had him raised in it. But what is it exactly that they love about their people? Neither Rhysand nor Cassian show any visible sign of love for their people when they're in Illyria. Illyria is almost treated like a headache or a stubborn child that won't listen. One if the few times Cassian is referenced as grinning in regards to male Illyrians (when it's not a joke being made about their sexual prowess and before acosf) is when Rhysand tells him to go and enact violence towards the Illyrians males who won't listen to orders (the orders being that female Illyrians are not to be doing chores before training). SJM's habit of poor world building means we don't know anything about the male Illyrians outside of their capacity to be violent and misogynistic. We're kind of not meant to. We're not meant to know that there could very well be other male Illyrians like Cassian, Rhysand or Azriel because then they become less special. If any male Illyrian does come out of this story, I guarantee you that SJM will tie that male character to one of the three, implying that they alone can see misogyny and correct it. That no one else in Illyria grew up like they did and turned out less (?) misogynistic. Because the backdrop of Illyria is meant to serve primarily Cassian and Rhysand as the good natured male Illyrians who just want less misogyny in the world. It's meant to uphold their exceptionalism. SJM will not allow Illyria and other male Illyrians to contradict Cassian and Rhys (and to a lesser extent Azriel). So we're stuck with a society that probably won't fully form itself beyond its current state.

[fenrysmoonbeamswife]

just saw a comparison of Feyre UTM and Nesta training in front of the Illyrians and now I'm going to kms because it was too valid

FREE THESE GIRLS FROM THESE MONSTERS

[isa-mierel]

So, i noticed this in the first few pages of my ACOTAR re-read:

but a few pages further she says this:

first she says that she's been hunting for eight years, but then it's five. am i reading this wrong or anything?

[viajandopelomar]

Rereading ACOTAR ✨✨

From an anti IC and anti Feyre.

Things I noticed in chapters 1, 2 and 3. Remembering that these are just things that caught my attention, I don't know if you like to highlight these details in the plot as much as I do. Most of the time it's the inconsistency in the information.

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📌The first really intriguing thing is Feyre's age. She says that her life has been reduced to risks for the last eight (8) years that she has been hunting in the woods. But she has been hunting since she was 14, and Feyre will say this a little later. So this number 8 doesn't make any sense, because if Feyre is 19 at the beginning of the book, she has been hunting for between 4 and 5 years 🫠. But it could just be a mistake in my pdf. I would need someone to reread chapter one and tell me in the comments. Oh, and we also don't know the exact age that her family left the mansion and went to the cabin.

📌Feyre smiled just hearing the muffled voices of her sisters from inside the cabin, despite having a doe on her back. Despite everything, despite the effort she makes to point out to the IC how painful hunting was, she still smiled at her sisters who, in her perspective, did nothing. Feyre was still a sister at the end of the day. It wasn't just hate. When no one was looking, she truly cared. In her future thoughts, she will say that she would find a way to get her family away from so close to the wall if the fairies were to attack. She truly cared. And then Feyre just... The fairy Feyre is no longer Feyre. Feyre should never have taken a fairy home, she should have taken those two away and taken them to a safe place. As far away from the wall as possible, to the south or the continent.

📌"It wasn't that Elain was cruel. She wasn't like Nesta, who was born with contempt on her face. Elain sometimes just... didn't understand things. It wasn't malice that kept her from offering help; it just didn't occur to her that she might be capable of getting her hands dirty." You're basically saying that Elain is slow and stupid. Because that's how we see people who "don't think they can do such a thing", it's stupid. And I agree, in 98% of the scenes in the five books Elain seems to be exactly that.

📌Although in the future books Feyre says loud and clear to Rhysand (I think it was to him) that their father wasn't exactly there, because most days he didn't even leave the house. He spent most of his time babbling about his lost wealth, after all. But he is introduced to us with a well-trimmed beard 😄 "as always" Feyre thinks. What's up, SJM? He's become almost a vegetable BUT he manages to trim his beard all the time?

📌Feyre says that Nesta was the one who suffered the most from the loss of her fortune, but I disagree. Elain is the only one described with the assumption that she doesn't think they are poor. Elain is the one who should be seen as "the one who suffered the most from the loss of her fortune”

📌I was also confused about the creditors. They left the mansion because the creditors went to collect the lost investment money and looted the house, okay. Wasn't that where Father Archeron got beaten? A few paragraphs later it is mentioned that it was in the cottage that he got hurt, but how would a creditor from the big coastal city where they lived know where they went? And more: why waste time going after them if they didn't kill him? They only broke his knee. Did he get the money back? No, and they definitely knew there was nothing left to steal. So why bother going there? And it wasn't that bad of a damage if he can walk 😄, he wasn't in a wheelchair, so the creditors' effort was in vain (I know he uses a cane, but the point is it wasn't fatal). Because it was so confusing I thought the injured leg had happened in the mansion. But wasn't that it? Why confuse the events? I imagine most people think the same as me.

📌Nesta sniffed, which implied that she almost cried when she realized the risk Feyre took by killing the wolf. This is for those who only say "Nesta NEVER cared about Feyre. Nesta is just cold" and blah blah blah. (I will always be highlighting Nesta because I love Nesta).

📌 It's weird that Nesta has flushed cheeks when she's as hungry as Feyre and Elain. It's weird that there's color in a pale, skeletal face during such a miserable winter. It's all so... I don't know, poorly written. In a terrible way.

📌Feyre dreams of marrying her sisters and having more money and time to paint, and apparently she has said this several times. Enough so that Nesta wants to marry Tomas just to be one less mouth. Knowing this, ACOSF becomes contradictory because Feyre wants both sisters close by. Or at least, pretending to be fine in Velaris. (I believe she really wouldn't notice or care if Nesta just pretended to be minimally fine, even if she was being mistreated by the IC and the ACOSF plot never happened.) It's funny, Feyre always wanted her sisters far away and then she wants them so close that Nesta's visits in ACOFAS weren't enough.

📌Nesta made Elain shut up twice in two chapters (they didn't appear in chapter one), and Elain looked like a puppy following her owner. Nesta pouting? What the hell was that. She has an amazing personality at the end of this book until the third one, but at the beginning she looks like Morrigan? What the hell? Pouting? Nesta, you're not like that, improve. But keep being the diva who stays out in the cold because she doesn't like chopping wood, I love it 🤌🏻. Nesta didn't seem to be that protective of Elain here. Feyre said that Nesta only cared about Elain, of course, but until chapter three we didn't see that, you know? She glares at Elain, tells her to shut up, scares her away and when Nesta is talking Elain just watches, practically with her head down. The Nesta who breathes Elain appeared in the third book (and with good reason, they were in an unknown place and were dragged from their houses wearing nightgowns).

📌About Feyre's promise to her mother: I see nothing more than the delirium of a dying woman and a girl who grew up and didn't realize it. And when Feyre finds the mercenary and swears that she herself hunted the wolf, Feyre thinks that the mercenary is suspicious because maybe she found someone who wasn't faithful to the sacred oath that only Feyre seems to follow. It's worth remembering that these oaths were only important until chapter 3 🤣, and that Feyre is the ONLY human to talk about oaths about something true, divine, an exchange, a currency. Almost as if a nanny had told her that when she was a child and she grew up and believed it 😆, poor thing. Being in Feyre's head is like being in the head of a child under 10 years old. Sometimes I feel sorry for her.

📌"She's just a semi-wild beast, with the courage to give orders day and night." It's funny that Nesta said this so early, but it will also be true in ACOSF. In the end, Feyre is only brave enough to spit orders even to her sisters because she was lucky enough to marry Rhysand 🤷🏻‍♀️ (now I want to write something with Nesta throwing this in Feyre's face in ACOSF), but she's not good at talking to Nesta in the eyes without having a bat behind her growling 😆. In other words, incapable of doing anything other than spitting orders. (I'm not discrediting Feyre's hunting, but let's face it, after half of the second book she is reduced to exactly that, this creature who thinks she has the right to everything).

📌"It was impressive — really impressive — to see Nesta stand straight as a ramrod, stretch her shoulders and look down her nose at the young woman, like a queen without a throne." Yes, she is a diva ✨.

📌Do the clothes of the children of the blessed look like those of the priestesses?

📌The Martax, creatures as big as a bear and with the head of a lion, were never mentioned again. It would be interesting. What is their territory? It's obvious that Amarantha sent that group to destroy the village, just to scare the other humans when the news spread. In fact, nothing from the first book is useful for the next ones. Not the Puca or the Naga. Except for the Bogge, which Feyre and Lucien lure to the nephews of the king of Hybern, and is only mentioned in passing, which makes adding it to the plot useless. It had no real consequences for anyone.

📌"Although he was the eldest son of the only wealthy farmer in the village, he was still thin from the winter, and his brown hair had thinned." It's strange that in one village there should be so many rich people, so many wealthy farmers. It's strange that despite Isaac Hale being the only son of one of the wealthiest farmers, he is clearly experiencing rationing at home, while the farmers' wives are described as pretty and plump. There are so many inconsistencies. I also don't like his relationship with Feyre. In her thoughts she says that he was almost always the one talking about his problems. About the difficulties of being his father's heir, about all the responsibilities imposed on him and things like that. Reading this passage it seems like he used her, and as much as Feyre thinks they would be at least discreet, it's obvious that they never were, and that like me, practically everyone saw it as a relationship where he used her. For me it's clear when Nesta says something about expecting them to be on their guard, but Feyre didn't like it and countered by saying it was too late to worry. But from my point of view Nesta said that because Isaac's engagement became public. Feyre herself says in her thoughts that she wasn't STILL so desperate to the point of looking for Isaac after the wedding. So IN MY EYES Nesta was worried that Feyre would think a baby would hold Isaac. Because see, it's Isaac who calls her. He simply waves to her and Feyre follows him. It's mentioned only once that Feyre looked for him first and it was the first time, which remembering, was only because Feyre liked being accompanied home by a polite boy. Just like with Tamlin and Rhysand, Feyre liked being treated like a person, with politeness. She's always going after men who treat her with the slightest bit of decency. She has some really bad tendencies and I think she needs a talk with Aaron Warner, where he'll tell her she should get a dog if she wants some attention. Feyre might need one more than Juliette. (And maybe I'm wrong about the Isaac/Feyre dynamic, but we don't have any details on that anyway. I can only guess.)

Feyre was going to warn Nesta about Tomas not doing anything about his father beating his mother (which I'm sure Nesta already knew), Tamlin breaks down the door and ends the third chapter ✨.

I made a post about the inconsistency of poverty and wealth in Feyre's village. I was going to put it here, but I thought it would be too long. Here it is.

One more thing: all the text references I put in the post were taken from the Brazilian Portuguese PDF, and then put into a translator (I don't know English). So it's likely that there will be changes in both the quotes and the text itself, so I ask that you understand if something doesn't make sense to you. It's just that Google's translation sometimes changes some things.

🇧🇷Relendo ACOTAR ✨✨ de uma anti IC e anti Feyre.

Coisas que percebi nos capítulos 1, 2 e 3. Lembrando que são só coisas que chamam a minha atenção, não sei se vocês gostam de ressaltar esses detalhes na trama tanto quanto eu. Na maioria das vezes é a inconsistência nas informações.

📌A primeira coisa realmente intrigante é a idade de Feyre. Ela diz que a vida dela foi reduzida a riscos nos últimos oito (8) anos em que caçava no bosque. Mas ela caça desde os 14, e Feyre dirá isso um pouco depois. Então esse número 8 não faz sentido nenhum, porquê se Feyre tem 19 anos no início do livro, ela caça tem entre 4 e 5 anos 🫠. Mas pode ser só algum erro no meu pdf. Eu precisaria que alguém relesse o capítulo um e me dissesse nos comentários. Ah, e também não temos a idade exata que a família dela saiu da mansão e foi para a cabana.

📌Feyre sorriu só de ouvir as vozes abafadas das irmãs dela de dentro do chalé, apesar de ter uma corça nas costas. Apesar de tudo, apesar do esforço que ela faz questão de ressaltar para o IC o quão sofrido era caçar, ela ainda sorria para as irmãs que na perspectiva dela não faziam nada. Feyre ainda era uma irmã no fim do dia. Não era só ódio. Quando não tinha ninguém olhando ela se importava de verdade. Em seus pensamentos futuros ela dirá que daria um jeito de tirar sua família de tão perto da muralha se as fadas fossen atacar. Ela se importava de verdade. E depois Feyre só... A Feyre fada não é mais Feyre. Feyre nunca deveria ter levado uma fada para casa, ela deveria ter tirado aquelas duas de lá e te-las levado para um lugar seguro. O mais longe possível da muralha, para o sul ou o continente.

📌"Não que Elain fosse cruel. Ela não era como Nestha, que nascera com desprezo no rosto. Elain às vezes apenas… não entendia as coisas. Não era maldade que a impedia de oferecer ajuda; simplesmente não lhe ocorria que pudesse ser capaz de sujar as mãos." Você está basicamente afirmando que Elain é lerda e burra. Porque é assim que vemos pessoas que "não pensam que podem fazer tal coisa", é burrice mesmo. E eu concordo, em 98% das cenas de cinco livros Elain parece ser exatamente isso.

📌Apesar de nos livros futuros Feyre dizer em alto e bom som para Rhysand (acho que foi para ele) que o pai delas não estava exatamente ali presente, porque na maioria dos dias ele sequer saía de casa. Ele passava a maior parte do tempo balbuciando sobre a riqueza perdida, afinal. Mas ele nos é apresentado com a barba bem aparada 😄 "como sempre" Feyre pensa. O que é isso, SJM? Ele se tornou quase um vegetal MAS ele consegue aparar a barba sempre?

📌Feyre diz que Nesta foi a que mais sofreu com a perda da fortuna, mas discordo. Elain é a única descrita com a suposição de que ela não acha que sejam pobres. Elain é aquela que deveria ser vista como "a que mais sofreu com a perda da fortuna"

📌Também fiquei confusa quanto aos credores. Eles saíram da mansão porque os credores foram cobrar o dinheiro investido perdido e saquearam a casa, ok. Não foi aí que o pai Archeron foi espancado? Alguns parágrafos depois é mencionado que foi no chalé que ele se machucou, mas como um credor da grande cidade costeira que eles moravam saberia para onde eles foram? E mais: por que perder tempo indo atrás deles se não o mataram? Só quebraram o joelho. Recuperou o dinheiro? Não, e eles definitivamente sabiam que não havia mais nada para roubar. Então porque se dar o trabalho de ir até lá? E não foi um dano tão ruim se ele consegue andar 😄, ele não ficou numa cadeira de rodas, então o esforço dos credores foi em vão (eu sei que eleusa uma bengala, mas o ponto é que não foi nada mortal). Por ser tão confuso eu achava que a perna ferida havia acontecido na mansão. Mas não foi isso? Porque confundir os eventos? Imagino que a maioria pense o mesmo que eu.

📌Nesta fungou, o que ficou subentendido que quase chorou quando entendeu o risco que Feyre correu ao abater o lobo. Isso é para aqueles que só falam "Nesta NUNCA se importou com Feyre. Nesta só é fria" e bla bla bla. (estarei sempre destacando Nesta porque amo Nesta).

📌É estranho que Nesta tenha bochechas coradas quando está tão faminta quanto Feyre e Elain. É estranho que aja cor num rosto pálido e esquelético durante um inverno tão miserável. É tudo tão... Sei lá, mal escrito. De uma forma terrível.

📌Feyre tem o sonho de casar suas irmãs e ter mais dinheiro e tempo para pintar, e ao que parece ela já disse isso várias vezes. O suficiente para que Nesta queira se casar com Tomas só para ser uma boca a menos. Sabendo disso ACOSF se torna contraditório por Feyre querer as duas irmãs por perto. Ou ao menos, fingindo estar bem em Velaris. (Acredito que ela realmente não notaria e nem se importaria se Nesta apenas fingisse estar minimamente bem, mesmo que sendo maltratada pelo IC e o plot de ACOSF nunca tivesse acontecido.) É engraçado, Feyre sempre quis as irmãs longe e depois as quer tão perto que as visitas de de Nesta em ACOFAS não eram o bastante.

📌Nesta fez Elain calar a boca duas vezes em dois capítulos (elas não apareceram no um), e Elain pareceu um cachorrinho seguindo o dono. Nesta fazendo bico? Que porra foi essa. Ela tem uma personalidade incrível no final deste livro até o terceiro mas nesse início ela parece a Morrigan? O que porra é essa? Biquinho? Nesta, você não é assim, melhore. Mas continue sendo a diva que fica no frio porque não gosta de cortar lenha, adoro 🤌🏻. Nesta não parecia ser tão protetora com Elain aqui. Feyre disse que Nesta só se importava com Elain, claro, mas até o capítulo três não vimos isso, entende? Ela olha feio pra Elain, manda ela calar a boca, espanta ela pra longe e quando Nesta está falando Elain só observa, praticamente de cabeça baixa. A Nesta que respira Elain apareceu no terceiro livro (e com razão, estavam num lugar desconhecido e foram arrastadas de suas casas usando camisolas).

📌Sobre a promessa de Feyre feita à sua mãe: não vejo nada além do delírio de uma moribunda e uma menina que cresceu e não percebeu isso. E quando Feyre encontra a mercenária e jura que ela mesma caçou o lobo, Feyre pensa que a mercenária está desconfiada porque talvez ela tenha encontrado alguém que não foi fiel ao juramento sagrado que apenas Feyre parece seguir. Vale lembrar que esses juramentos só foram importantes até o capítulo 3 🤣, e que Feyre é a ÚNICA humana a falar sobre juramentos sobre algo verdadeiro, divino, uma troca, uma moeda. Quase como se uma babá tivesse dito isso a ela quando criança e ela tenha crescido e acreditado 😆, pobrezinha. Estar na cabeça de Feyre é como estar na cabeça de uma criança com menos de 10 anos. As vezes tenho pena dela.

📌"É apenas uma besta semisselvagem, com coragem de dar ordens dia e noite." É engraçado que Nesta tenha dito isso tão cedo, mas também será verdade em ACOSF. No fim Feyre só é corajosa pra cuspir ordens até para as irmãs porque teve sorte em casar com Rhysand 🤷🏻‍♀️ (agora quero escrever algo com Nesta jogando isso na cara de Feyre em ACOSF), mas ela não é boa em falar olhando no olhos de Nesta sem ter um morcego atrás dela rosnando 😆. Em outras palavras, incapaz de fazer nada além de cuspir ordens. (Não estou desmerecendo a caça de Feyre, mas convenhamos que depois da metade do segundo livro ela é reduzida a exatamente isso, essa criatura que se acha no direito de tudo).

📌"Era impressionante — impressionante mesmo — ver Nestha ficar ereta como uma vareta, esticar os ombros e olhar com o nariz empinado para a jovem, como uma rainha sem trono." Sim ela é uma diva ✨

📌As roupas dos filhos dos abençoados parecem as das sacerdotisas?

📌Os Martax, criaturas grandes como urso e com cabeça de leão nunca mais foram mencionadas. Seria interessante. Qual é o territorio deles? Tá óbvio que Amarantha enviou aquele grupo pra destruir a aldeia, só para amendontrar os outros humanos quando a notícia de espalhasse. Aliás, nada do primeiro livro é útil para os próximos. Nem a Puca e nem os Naga. Exceto pelo Bogge, que Feyre e e Lucien atraem para os sobrinhos do rei de Hybern, e só é comentado de passagem, o que torna inútil a adição disso na trama. Não teve nenhuma consequência real disso para ninguém.

📌"Embora fosse o filho mais velho do único fazendeiro abastado da aldeia, ainda estava magro devido ao inverno, e os cabelos castanhos ficaram ralos." É estranho que em uma aldeia aja tantas pessoas ricas, tantos fazendeiros abastados. É estranho que apesar de Isaac Hale ser o único filho de um dos fazendeiros mais ricos, ele está nitidamente passando por um racionamento em casa, enquanto as esposas dos fazendeiros sejam descritas como bonitas e gorduchas. São muitas inconsistências. Também não gosto do relacionamento dele e de Feyre. Nos pensamentos ela diz que era quase sempre ele quem falava sobre seus problemas. Das dificuldades sobre ser o herdeiro de seu pai, sobre todas as responsabilidades impostas nele e coisas assim. Lendo esse trecho parece que ele usava ela, e por mais que Feyre ache que eles seriam minimamente discretos, fica óbvio que eles nunca foram, e que como eu, praticamente todo mundo via como um relacionamento onde ele usava ela. Pra mim fica nítido quando Nesta diz algo sobre esperar que eles devam estar se prevenindo, mas Feyre não gostou e rebateu falando que era tarde demais pra se preocupar. Mas do meu ponto de vista Nesta disse isso porque se tornou público o o noivado de Isaac. A própria Feyre diz em seus pensamentos que não AINDA não estava tão desesperada ao ponto de procurar Isaac depois do casamento. Então AOS MEUS OLHOS Nesta estava preocupada que Feyre pensasse que um bebê seguraria Isaac. Porquê veja, é Isaac quem a chama. Ele simplesmente acena para ela e Feyre o segue. É mencionado uma única vez que Feyre o procurou primeiro e foi da primeira vez, que lembrando, foi só porque Feyre gostou de ser acompanhada até em casa por um menino educado. Assim como com Tamlin e Rhysand, Feyre gostou de ser tratada como pessoa, com educação. Ela está sempre indo atrás dos homens que a tratam com o mínimo de decência. Ela tem péssimas tendências e acho que precisa de uma conversa com Aaron Warner, onde ele lhe dirá que ela deve adotar um cachorro se quer um pouco de atenção. Feyre talvez precise mais de um do que Juliette. (E talvez eu esteja errada sobre a dinâmica Isaac e Feyre, mas não temos detalhes sobre isso mesmo. Posso apena supor).

📌Feyre ia avisar Nesta sobre Tomas não fazer nada quanto ao pai dele espancar a mãe dele (o que tenho certeza que Nesta já sabia), Tamlin quebra a porta e termina o terceiro capítulo ✨.

Eu fiz um post sobre a inconsistência da pobreza e riqueza na aldeia de Feyre. Eu ia colocar aqui, mas achei que ficaria longo demais. Está aqui.

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Working on my Night Court civil war fanfiction where after the collapse of the NC at the combined hands of the CoN and the Illyrians teaming up, the refugees end up in the Spring Court because Lucien comes to aid them in their escape, and convinces Tamlin to let them stay because they lost everything.

And Tamlin meets Nyx, dislikes him at first, but realizes that Nyx inherited his shapeshifting powers from when Tamlin revived both Rhys and Feyre, when he shapeshifts into a little mini version of Tamlin’s own beast form.

I’m dying here xD It does my delusional-ass Feyre x Tamlin x Rhysand heart well

And Nyx as a unifier for them confronting their shared trauma and abuse of one another is the perfect excuse