A Court of Silver Flames

This book is not good and I'll tell you why. Nesta's presented as a character with serious trauma and her coping methods are sex, music, and alcohol.

Surprise! She starts having sex with Cassian. Now, the sex scenes are disgusting and borderline savage (and not presented as romantic at all). But ya girl could get down with the kinks IF Cassian wasn't basically abusing her by taking advantage of her vulnerability and one of her only coping mechanisms. This is presented as romantic because Cassian is so head-over-heels for her that he can't keep it in his pants long enough for her to have a little character growth.

Add on to this the fact that Nesta is horrible to literally everyone and this book becomes unreadable. She literally is not given a single redeeming quality and her behavior crosses the line from “Kind of nasty but wounded” to “I don't care about anyone and I'm going to hurt everyone no matter what.” There is not enough character development within the first half of this book to bother with reading the second half. Don't waste your money and just stick to the first three books.