Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. All five of the Court of Thorns and Roses hardcovers with the new series look in a luxe box set, perfect for the holiday season. I completely fell in love with the story and the characters and am now about to start crescent City. The male love interest in this book drugs her and dances inappropriately with her, and then claims there was no other way to make the villain think he didn’t care about the protagonist and put her in danger.

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No spoilers - all I'll say is that for me the first three of these books had everything I want in a fantasy. It is an adult series for adult themes and adult scenes, not just spice, but also gore/war/torture, and that is important to note. Because if she truly had the same power as him then the friends and family would not have lied like that, the same way they would not have lied to him. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.

I haven't read anything for a long time and fell to peer pressure and bought this series not expecting much. The male love interest “rescues” the protagonist and brings her to a place which only his friends and family, for hundreds of years of relational ties, are. Follow Feyre's journey into the dangerous, alluring world of the Fae, where she will lose her heart, face her demons, and learn what she is truly capable of.It also is somewhat insinuated there is fascism going on because of his obsession with keeping one “good” city safe, and his distaste for the sexist race of warriors and the other city - which he oversees and is in charge of. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. Because this is a popular series I would also be concerned with people taking the idea that this sort of behavior towards someone mentally ill is romantic or okay in any way shape or form. What also goes along with this is that all education on those political historical topics will have to come through him or people whom he is employing/has these strong ties with. And this was because she pointed out a lie which the whole family was keeping from her sister by her love interest, so the protagonist of this book was being punished for giving information which her sister had a right to know.

That is pretty unbelievable, there are a million other options that do not include drugging someone in that situation. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. This action-packed tetralogy and companion novel with fairytale foundations is perfect for fans of The All Souls Trilogy and From Blood and Ash.

I felt like that the story was very much a classic fairytale meets modern Buffy the Vampire Slayer and I loved the Beauty and the Beast aspect retelling because it is one of my favourite Disney films. Even though I absolutely loved this book and cannot fault it at all, I would have loved to have had some chapters in Lucien, Tamlin or Rhysand perspective just to mix up the narrative. Follow Feyre's journey into the dangerous, alluring world of the Fae, where she will lose her heart, face her demons and learn what she is truly capable of. Was I confused the entire time, yes, but that didn’t stop me from eating this up bc everything made sense at the end. The sexual tension was sizzling from the start and the steamy scenes were pretty hot 🥵 As much as I loved Lucien and Tamlin, I am definitely Team Rhysand!

Making a deal with Rhysand, the High Lord of the Night Court, has life-altering consequences for Feyre.

The other thing about that is she was raised to her status without any well learned political or historical education of the people she is ruling, giving the male love interest good reason to be able to over-ride anything she put into place, and not giving her enough knowledge to truly do her job. The first book was a little slow to start and reminded me of Beauty and the Beast, which I've since learnt was deliberate, but once you hid the half way point of book 1 the pacing changes, the story takes a turn and it becomes a lot more exciting. Each book has symbolic and recognizable motifs that are unique to each novel and placed on the front cover. We decided to place A Court of Frost and Starlight at the beginning of our ACOTAR Set since it's a novella that doesn't further the main plot of the series. Maas has not collaborated with me in any way in the creation of the art, and the traits of any characters depicted in the art is in no way based on any foreknowledge by me of the traits of any characters in future books by Sarah J.