A Court of Frost and Starlight
Ratings721
Average rating3.5
Ppl hate this book. I will give it 3.5 stars. think it is fun and tender and honestly what you want but don't get to see when a fantasy book ends - the happily ever after. I loved the gentle moments (Elain cooking solstice dinner and giving az a solstice gift) and the healing moments (Feyre opening a studio for art therapy) and just the fun moments (cassian and Feyre drunkenly decorating). Idk I just feel like this book is soft and fun for winter time. Happy solstice love u
The book started off pretty slow. I hate to say it but I was bored. It took about 80 pages to really get into, which is a lot considering this is a super short book. But, the book started to pick up and played on my heartstrings. I did enjoy all of the banter and jokes between the group. This book gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling and would have been a perfect read for Christmas time. Overall, a good book
Unfortunately, I really struggled to get through this book. I thought Maas couldn't do any worse than the last book (which I thought was just OK.), but I felt like this book on its own was pretty unnecessary. The biggest thing is that there is no plot. It's just all the characters celebrating the solstice, deciding what they're going to get everyone as gifts, painting, and a little bit of Feyre in conflict with Nesta. Secondly, I'm just not a fan of the character perspectives changing every couple chapters, especially when some perspectives are in the first person and some are in the third person. Because of this, I had a hard time keeping track of what was going on. I will say it was nice at times to see what happened beyond Feyre's perspective, and I understand why Maas chose to write the book this way, but I think there were several chapters that could have been written from Feyre's perspective as more of a rehashing to limit the confusion of going back and forth. The last negative that I have - and this is something that I've had a problem with throughout the series - is that the magic system seems to have fewer and fewer rules. In the first book, it seemed like there were very specific abilities that very specific individuals were able to possess, but as time has gone on, the magic has become too convenient with people able to make things appear and disappear, move, and turn on and turn off with only a simple thought. I wish Maas would have gone into more detail at this point to explain the boundaries of the magic system so that I could better suspend my disbelief.
Now, some pros, because there had to be some if I didn't DNF the book. Maas, as always, did a wonderful job of writing extremely vivid scenes with multi-dimentional characters. Also, while there wasn't much of a plot, there was still some conflict between characters that allowed for further character development which I think will set things up nicely for the next book. Granted, I did feel like there was lots of dialogue that was forced and just didn't feel natural, but the characters' personalities and values remained consistent throughout. Lastly, one of the reasons I absolutely loved ACOMAF was Maas' ability to show trauma in her characters, and she certainly carries that through in this book as well. I loved the developments on Nesta, and I'm looking forward to reading more of her story in the next book.
Deze novella vond ik echt heel leuk! Sarah J Maas zorgt er elke keer voor dat ik gelijk het volgende deel wil gaan lezen...
“A Court of Frost and Starlight” is a 200-page novella written by Sarah J. Maas. This was meant to be a bridge between the first trilogy and the second trilogy, but really, it was a story on Feyre, Rhys, and their close-knit circle of friends trying to rebuild the Night Court.
I did not care for the novella, there was no action besides from sex. I gave this a 2/5 Stars.
Summary: A very special Solstice (Christmas) edition.
I am of an age where we lived through “very special episodes” not just made fun of them. After a TV show had a hundred episodes and could go to syndication, then it would have a couple of seasonal episodes that would always be shown out of season during syndication. I kept waiting for this the purpose of this book and I never really found it.
The book is overshadowed by recovery from “the war.” But the war was really a couple of battles. We know from previous discussions that 500 years ago there was a war that had lasted for years. And we know that the Rhys and others had been captured for nearly 50 years. I am not asking for more war narrative, but three battles without a real peace settlement doesn't feel to me like the end of the war is here. So the whole premise of the book, Feyre and others trying to come to terms with the trauma of the war, seems off.
Most of the story revolves around the solstice celebration and buying or gifting presents. And people hanging out and being a bit overcrowded in the townhouse and there still being tension between Feyre and her sisters. In the end, Feyre find some purpose and vocation in helping other with her art. And not everyone else has started healing their trauma. But nothing else really moved.
This is a forgettable book that didn't add to the story and feels like an add on after the previous trilogy. And nothing about it makes me want to bother picking up the next book.
originally posed on my blog at https://bookwi.se/a-court-of-frost-and-starlight/
look. i got halfway through a court of wings and ruin. i decided just to read the rest of plot on the wiki page and get to this one. which turned out to be just as bad but it was only 200 pages so i got through it. cassian and nesta's chapters were semi-interesting? so i will read the next one and see how it goes. i think feyre and rhysand are about two books overdue from retiring as the main characters bc the first two in the series were ok. anyway im quite jaded but i must persevere and finish the series.
As someone who loves Christmas and enjoys some good Christmas movies, I've never been into Christmas books. This one did not change my mind. This reads like the kind of fanfiction I'm not personally into and I got a bit bored. LOVE these characters, but I gotta admit, Rhys and Feyre are super boring when they're just in love and not fighting together. Which would be great if they were my real life friends, but ugh, wasn't interested. Some interesting world building bits, but I kept finding myself flipping to the teaser for ACOSF which was WAY more intriguing than The Christmas Special.
This is the third time I've cried over a Sarah J. Maas book in my physical science class. Seriously, my teacher is just used to it by now.
I honestly love how everyone is hating on this book and saying how they hate Feysand and the smut was cringy... and I'm over here with my five stars like ¯_(ツ)_/¯
(Also, Chapter 22 is the new Chapter 55. Fight me.)
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Pre-Reading Updates
30/1/2018: THE COVER IS STUNNING. BEAUTIFUL. FEYRE'S STARFALL DRESS JUST GKSSHLGSKSKTIDHKJ
29/1/2018: COVER REVEAL TOMORROW I AM SCREAMING
15/11/2017: FROST AND STARLIGHT FROST AND STARLIIIIIGHT
14/11/2017: GUYS WE'RE GETTING A TITLE REVEAL SOON FFJHGKMX I KNEW IT WOULD BE THIS MONTH YESSS
I think about the pointlessness of this book sometimes. It kills me since I usually enjoy novellas.
2 stars
perfect Christmas “episode”, cute and full of warmth and it gives a sweet ending to Rhys and Feyre, even if they are present in the last book
2.5/5
Lets be honest, it's not a masterpiece. There's almost no action or world-building, but it was quite a good bridge between the first three books in ACOTAR series and the ones that Maas is still writing :)
Reads like a Christmas special, delightful if unlike the previous books in the series
3.5 Rounded to a 4.
I absolutely love this series so far, and love reading novellas as they tend to give details into other characters' lives. Maybe I just expected too much from this short book as all of the others have been jam-packed full of amazing!
I loved reading about their life after the war and appreciate the humor and display of companionship, but it just didn't seem to flow together somehow. It honestly felt more like like it was Feyre's journey towards feeling whole again with everyone making little cameos here and there.
BUT this being said I would still recommend this series!
Nice book and didn't cause a breakdown like the others but definitely could have been a bit more something. Also read twice in one year, BABY!
3 ⭐️ it was nice but it's pretty much just a bridge between the first trilogy and the second trilogy. kinda boring, but at least it was fast
This volume in the series was still an “ok” book, but felt like an intermission, or interlude. Like... wait... we know you're waiting and we're trying to get everything together backstage as quickly as we can!
A slice of life story to hold us over until the next book and honestly I am here for it. Give me all the mostly happy endings.
I appreciate that the conflict here is interpersonal and community based instead of worldly. Yes it's a break, but it's also a totally different type of turmoil. Part of war is rebuilding, acknowledging the aftermath, and fostering better relationships with your friends, family, and community. While this could've used a bit more drama, it's still very interesting to me. At the same time, I'm not sure if the prose was good enough for this to be worthy of its own book. Stuck to the intro of another book, this might work because it felt like one of those sections in Sarah J Mass books that's just downtime for the obvious tragedy and drama that's coming soon. But we never get the drama that's coming soon. There's honestly a lot of resolution here to say a 700 page behemoth comes next.
The smut was unnecessary but not bad. And it set up the Cassian/Nesta thing very well. Ultimately this was decent and not as bad as people made it seem!
This is also not skippable in the series. **spoiler part* Things you'll miss: new homes!, nesta and cassian relationship, tamlin just in general, feyre's place in velaris community (new character as well) and more.
For once we get to enjoy the heroes getting a chance to just live their (mostly happy) lives after a hard won victory! This was a cute, cozy read!
It was nice to get a chance to get into the heads of some of the other Dreamers, but I did find myself sometimes forgetting who's POV I was in because either I wasn't used to the voice, or it was too similar to Feyre's.
I can't wait to see everything River House will be!