Mark Shenoda

I loved this so much, I never thought a philosophical approach to my grief was fitting, but it actually helped way more than a psychological approach. I was never a person who sought light, and this book kind of made me feel judsitied in my acceptance of darkness in a way that doesn't sound nilestic.

This one is an improvement in almost every way over the first one. Characters are more mature. You don't spend hours lost as to what the goals or motivations of the charcers are as everything clear early on.

Side note, I think Feyre is a racist turned RCTA (aka still racist) activist with a serious case of twinkle dust fever (I assume thats what they call people who are obsessive with their attraction to fae kind).

She goes from oh look a fae, what a wicked monster, with talons sharp as a papercut, fangs still bloodied with my ancestor's flesh. Then two seconds later talking about the same person she'd say something like, his jawline chiseled by the gods themselves, his gleaning eyes send waves of blinding bright light enough to melt steel, steel so hot I feel in on the soft spot on my inner thigh.

Then, after she is made fae herself, she goes to have a sit down with her racist family to tell them how wrong they are and that her sister should not marry that KKK dude cause fairy lives matter! (Will Smith was wrong :-( ).

I would rate it higher save for the fact that the love interest is 19 who is involved with an immortal being, age is more than a number Sarah.

The other star that knocked off is for the extremely long wait to explain why events where happening. 300 pages to explain why everyone is acting weird towards the protagonist is unkind.

Save for the two previous complaints I loved the world building and story in general, the romance is well written.

DNF 50% I love myself too much to finish this.

I only enjoyed a book and a half of this whole series.

How do you end a series with a standalone arce?!

SJM doesn't seem to be capable of turning the heat past 5 or 6 at most. While this wasn't as boring as the previous 3.1 novella, it's still terrible. This is just a training montage that lasts for 750+pages. No one is likeable and in the most dumb way possible.

The weak feminist aspects don't even give the book more points, just boring stuff like “Did you know this race of beings treat their females like trash?” No nuance just saying things for the same of saying them.

The twist wasn't twisting and I saw Colleen Hoover's name twice, once on the cover of the book where she praised Jeneva Rose and called her the Queen of twists (I beg to differ) and again in the book itself where the big country hunk who's is not just a dumb country pumpkin but also crys when reading bad romance novels.

The reason I say the twist is bad is that every woman I have ever heard of or know takes certain safety measures to protect herself but this smart city dwiller was obviously there for another reason and the heavy handed suggestion that the dude was lying is an obvious bambozal.

I really don't like it when it's obvious that the writer is omitting information or have their characters act odd because it drops the facade of the whole thriller bit.

Good witting, though.

I can tell from the amount of footnotes that Ziwe really wanted that five toes raiting and trust me I tried.
Who knew that a foot fetish website would have such bad smartphone optimization to the point that half its functions are not working. 1
If Ziwe thought she's not pretty, what does that mean for the rest of us regular mortals!

1 I didn't go to wikifeet to look at your feet Ziwe, If I wanted that, I would have DMed you like any respectable creep.

Can't stress enough that this book was released when the writer was 25, at 25 I didn't know what an edamame is and this girl out here writing about etymology and shit!

Now is this some deep acadimic etymology book? No, and I can definitely see that some of the languages used (namely Arabic, probably others too that the writer doesn't speak) are based on some Google searches/consultations.

This is the nerdest narrative you can write about translators and I am here for it. Kinda reminded of death note but instead of just killing someone by writing you can also filter water.

My favourite word-pair was the one that made the rich dude's back garden ever so slightly more tranquil. I just wish CBD was involved in that particular word-pairing.

I was also all for the shade thrown towards the British, as a brit I approve this message of hate.

The first third of the book was such a drag, I could have done without all the fluff. The ending was so good.
The number of times this book had the word mate, male and female is obscene. No one who uses male and female in any context other than medical has good intentions. Their vibe ain't right, and I would have disliked the book even more hadn't there been a queer character, a token queer but a queer nonetheless.