With the next one well on it's way in the mail, I have to get all my thoughts and feelings out about this book now before I completely forget everything in favor for the sequel.
Getting right into it, let's talk about the characters.
Feyre.
What is wrong with this girl? I was literally screaming at her (and this book) for the longest time. The first half of the book she's represented as this strong girl with survivor instincts, and yet she makes the stupidest decisions. She never asks any important questions, and she has a sever case of 'I don't know when to be quiet.' Luckily enough, she was never meant to be killed off in the first place so I suppose it never did her any harm. But honestly, this girl has crazy luck. Which is a bad thing.
Off of Feyre, but we may come back to her.
On to Tamlin now.
Tamlin. Although I found him to absolutely adorable, he was just the slightest bit of an annoyance towards the end. With his not doing anything and all throughout the trials after which it was completely unnecessary. I don't know how to feel about Tamlin. His first interactions with Feyre were extremely awkward and forced (it's copy/paste from the movie Beauty and the Beast) and nothing he ever said felt completely, honest. I'm a little indifferent towards him, despite being emotionally attached to Feyre and Tamlin's relationship.
And can we pleeeease talk about Rhysand!?
This guy is a total douche, but I was so done with the book right when he was introduced, that his douchiness was a nice change of pace and I welcomed it. A complete asshole who was servant to an overlord queen. Aloof and more of a follow his own rules kind of guy, he quickly shifts to playing a role of nothing to lose and everything to gain. And by this I mean he's biding his time working for Amarantha. As much as it was 'necessary' for him to haven acted the way he did, I can't excuse the sudden change in his position as a character. He was more prevalent in the second half than Tamlin was, leaving me with a lasting impression of him. Not to mention the whole 'possession' thing and claiming Feyre.
When was Feyre just some prize by the way? She was flaunted around in the last half of the book for no apparent reason at all by Rhysand and he put her under a binding contract because....dickhead. By the end you're supposed to feel like, oh, no he's not a douche. He was just doing because he had to. No. He sucks.
Onto the main villian!!
Amarantha was weak. She was completely useless, and only there to fill her one dimensional role of villain for the first book. Knowing Maas, she won't or will barely be mentioned in the later books. But of course, we needed a first book that followed the main two and she couldn't write a whole book about just that. So out of nowhere popped Amarantha. Amarantha helped fill the quota of retelling, giving a reason and purpose to Feyre being there, and for the story to even be considered a retelling.
Amarantha was just a bitter woman, who was weirdly powerless. I know it's said that she stole the majority of the powers form the High Lords of the 7 courts, but how? And where did she keep them? And why didn't she have them herself? And why was that riddle so ridiculously easy? She really shouldn't have even made that deal in the first place. Plus Feyre should've been smarter than that when making that deal....or just found a different way to do things because for a 'sneaky human' or a 'good huntress who could hold her own' she got caught spectacularly fast.
Continuing with Feyre, why was she so dumb? I don't understand. She was supposed to be smart, or at least have common sense. Whenever someone tells her to not do something, she does it. Maybe the first couple of times when she wasn't entirely sure about the faeries (even though she was led to believe that they couldn't lie) when her decision to break the rules went south, she just repeated her same mistake. Don't go into the forest alone, don't go to festival, don't make a deal and if you do, think about if for a very long time.
Really Feyre? When told to stay in your room twice, and you still come out despite there being consquences the last time you didn't listen and her were told to go back, you still go out? And then have the nerve to say "Don't tell me what to do" like he couldn't just kill you and yours right then and there? Whatever happened to cautious, because that's not it. Not to mention that Maas tosses her talents into our face whenever given the chance.
We get it. You paint. Stop it.
We get it. You hunt. Stop it.
The amount of times that Lucien and Tamlin are left impressed by her is ridiculous. With them knowing that the faerie who she killed was willing trying to get killed, I'm assuming that they were just patronizing her with all the 'faerie killer' and 'don't stab me in the back' and she just didn't know it.
I didn't have a problem with Lucien, but basically everyone else I did. I have plenty more on Maas's writing style too, so wait for that.
But even with all I've had to say on this book, and very little being positive, I still got the next one. Why? I have no clue what-so-ever. You can wait for that one to be coming very soon. Hopefully my book will be in by today.
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