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A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)

Sarah J. Maas

Start date: March 26, 2022

Finish date: April 26, 2022

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Nov 26, 2017 Vanessa Gayle ⚔️ Fangirl Faction rated it it was amazing

Shelves: cover-love, romance, audio, book-girlfriends, fated-mates, i-will-go-down-with-this-ship, book-boyfriends, side-characters-giving-me-life, magic-or-alchemy, royalty-and-nobility

05/03/2021: Reread. Listened to the audiobook.

This review MAY contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

I might have actually passed into the afterlife and am writing this review from there. This book destroyed me that much. This book had my heart pumping the whole time! (Until the end came and I may have died from shock, joy, surprise, everything.) I am just glad to know that the series isn't over and that there will be more coming.

If there is one thing that Sarah J. Maas is good at, it is plot 05/03/2021: Reread. Listened to the audiobook.

This review MAY contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

I might have actually passed into the afterlife and am writing this review from there. This book destroyed me that much. This book had my heart pumping the whole time! (Until the end came and I may have died from shock, joy, surprise, everything.) I am just glad to know that the series isn't over and that there will be more coming.

If there is one thing that Sarah J. Maas is good at, it is plot building. I wouldn't be surprised if she was fae herself, her magic being that over words and stories. The way that she weaves details into her series is genius. You may not think that something is important in the first book and then BAM! It shows up in the last book or throughout the rest of the series and it blows you away. She is a damn good architect of stories. She throws so many plot twists at you and there are surprises and she reveals them at the best moments. G-E-N-I-U-S, ya'll.

Another thing that she is great at is character development. I loved all my darlings in this series. Every single one of them. And one thing that I really adore about Maas's character development is that the side or background characters become so much more than that. They become the heart of the story, right along with the main characters. They aren't just there for filler or for a specific plot point. They belong there. Not in just one part of the story, but in the story as a whole. The way that I come to love all of the side characters and background characters proves what a great storyteller Maas is.

I didn't think that the world-building could get better in the third book of the series, but it did! Oh my goodness, we get to see some of the other courts and get to know their High Lords. I LOVED it! I really hope that we get to see more of the other courts in the next books. I am dying to know more!

The last 30% of the book was where all shit broke loose and everything happens. It was awesome. The only thing that I didn't love was that we don't really find out what happens to the characters personally in the end. Everything is left open. I would have liked a little bit more finality in the end. Especially with all the "couples" are concerned. I just want all of my babies to have their happy endings. I guess that I have to hope that these things will be sorted out in the coming books.

Overall, this was magnificent! I couldn't have asked for anything better. I have the worst book hangover and I couldn't be happier about it. If you enjoyed the first two books of this series, then you'll love this one as well. I definitely recommend this book and this series as a whole. As with the other books in this series, I do recommend them for a mature audience since there are graphic sex scenes in these books.

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May 14, 2017 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book took me on such an emotional roller coaster. TWO nights in a row I stayed up past 1:00 in the morning. I laughed. I sighed (or maybe swooned). I blushed. I cried. And when I was done I felt wrung out. This may be the first time I've experienced an actual book hangover.

I love the relationships in this series. I love how real they are. This is a loving, real, "family". They live, they love, they fight, they forgive.

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Jul 30, 2018 Susan rated it it was amazing

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Sep 22, 2017 Keri rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, series-in-progress

This book is definitely my favorite in this series. It was nonstop and by the last section I felt I almost literally could not stop reading it and when I had to, could not wait until the next time I could pick it back up. Sometimes I worry about endings to series but this was done so well. I'm glad there will be more stories to come from Prythian b/c I LOVE so many of these characters, especially as they were developed so much more in this third book and can't wait to get more! ...more

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Nov 23, 2021 Sassafrass rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: already-own, audiobooks, a-audible-owned, 1-whispersync, romance, fantasy, young-adult, kindle, new-adult, z-meet-n-greet-24-picked

*4.5 STARS*

I'm not sure I can sum up this review after just finishing this book, but I will try my best. There was just so much in this one. I mean it was 720 pages so you know there was a lot there. But there was betrayal and love, friendship and enemies, there were revelations and still some questions.

I was in awe of Feyre and what she had to do when she went back to Tamlin, but then Tamilin surprised me too. Feyre and Rhyasnd's love blew me away, but then there were some new ones that I'd lik ...more

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Sep 14, 2018 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: series, young-adult, fantasy, read-in-2018

The conclusion of the court of thorns and roses trilogy. The books begins right after book three ends with Feyre on a spy mission to try to determine more about the upcoming war with Hybern. There are now a lot of characters in this story, we get introduced to all of the High Lords, and I felt that some of them got short changed in the amount of time allotted them. The ending felt a bit rushed and there is one event that occurs at the very end that angered me but overall an enjoyable trilogy. I' ...more

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