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A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)

Sarah J. Maas

Start date: February 25, 2022

Finish date: March 25, 2022

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Jun 29, 2024 Mila rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

4.7⭐️ reread second time and no doubt I liked this second book more than the others… lots of twists and characters development and growth… and I liked Rhysand and Feyre more too

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Feb 26, 2022 Heather Kimball rated it it was amazing

Shelves: again-again, favorite-fantasy-reads

Holy cow! There is so much to unpack here. First thing first …

Rating: 5/5 stars

This book truly made me fall in love with this series again. I was rather cautious about going back and rereading the first one. I had this book on my shelf and knew I would need to truly remember the first one to understand this one. I was right. You cannot pick this series up in the middle and pretend you will understand.

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The character growth in this book is astonishing. This book is not so much the flash in Holy cow! There is so much to unpack here. First thing first …

Rating: 5/5 stars

This book truly made me fall in love with this series again. I was rather cautious about going back and rereading the first one. I had this book on my shelf and knew I would need to truly remember the first one to understand this one. I was right. You cannot pick this series up in the middle and pretend you will understand.

Next...
The character growth in this book is astonishing. This book is not so much the flash in the pan romance that the first one was. A Court of Mist and Fury lets Feyra grow slowly into who she truly is without the burden of caring for everyone else. If I could add a theme song to book one Feyra, it would be "Surface Pressure" from Encanto. Feyra in book #2 heals SLOWLY! I love this about Sarah Maas's representation of trauma. Many YA books skim over trauma and the characters just "get better" in a month. This book really looks at the effects that trauma has on the psyche. Feyra is a husk of the beast she once was when she is living with Tamlin.

This brings me to my next point...
Tamlin is one character that I didn't think I would hate, but damn Maas did a good job. He takes the route of the overprotective lover to "resolve" his trauma. Nothing about that actually makes either of them better. If the readers are being honest, Tamlin's "coping skills" end up making both him and Feyra worse.

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Welp. Rhysand now is the hottest book character I have ever read. Maas does a lovely job at showing what lengths people are willing to go to for those that they love. Rhysand played a part and took on all the abuse just to protect his family. Not only that, but he knows that Feyra is his true mate the whole time and refuses to tell her. This makes their love even more real. I absolutely hate books where relationships just snap into being, fully formed because someone is "their mate." That is bogus. Trust and a bond are earned and grown over time. This is why the relationship between Rhys and Feyra is so wonderful. Neither is expecting the other one to come without baggage and they accept one another for it. 10 out of 10 would recommend.

P.S. Tamlin is a jerk and I hope he gets an ash arrow in the heart.
P.S.S Velaris sounds like the most amazing place. I would instantly pick up my life and leave it all behind if I could live there. (chef kiss) ...more

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Nov 17, 2023 Alicia Walton rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. There is so much I want to say about this book. This book had so much in this book I could not put it down. It was filled with so many emotions and well written. I absolutely love this book and can honestly say I have not found a series in a long time that called to me like this one. I read all hours of the night.
I will start off by saying I was not a real fan of Tamlin but I felt the love with Feyre in book one. I was always a fan of Rhys and knew there was story there. When I read the first bo ...more

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Dec 05, 2017 Ivusha (Tenebien) rated it it was amazing

I don't know what to say... Right now I don't have any words for you, so hopefully sometime later I'll be able to write down a few comprehensible sentences.
Until then - need to read the third book... ASAP. ...more

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Dec 07, 2021 Allison rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Wow…another home run from Sarah. Loved it even more than the first book. Can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

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Mar 27, 2022 Jennifer rated it it was ok

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Meh. Better than the first but I still won't be continuing

Recommended: if you're on the fence about continuing the series, this book will probably decide it for you.

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I was absolutely done with this series after how freakin' boring the first book was. Quite disappointingly so. Tamlin was 100% unlikable for me, nothing really seemed to HAPPEN for about 75% of the book, and the ending "mystery" was so annoyingly obvious that imagining the character struggling with it made them unlikably stu ...more

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Apr 10, 2019 Ruthie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I just love this book with all my heart. It's hard to put into words how good it is you just have to read it! ...more

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Jun 11, 2017 Linda Hamonou rated it it was amazing

I like when a book goes exactly where I want it to go.

Though the start at the Spring court totally got on my nerves.
I also had trouble to into the Assassin Blade and the first book in this series so it might all be just me not liking the way this author starts her books.
I'm not sure if I'm weird or not but the relationship with Tamlin was so weird. I know it was meant to fail and therefore add reason to be weird but all the sex they were having when they didn't even really talk except for bei ...more

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