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Beneath the superficial veneer of supernatural, this is a bog-standard romance novel. The Fair Folk might as well just be humans for all the differences there are between the two. All it's doing is making me wish I was reading a Juliet Marillier book instead...

Boy. This is...mediocre. I mean, it speaks to a certain modern female wish fulfillment fantasy, in the same way that Edgar Rice Burroughs self-consciously addressed a certain then-contemporary male wish-fulfillment, but the difference is that E.R.B. was a skillful prose-author, while Maas is at best "workmanlike." I'm spacing out while reading this and missing nothing, even during action sequences.

This is...just an average YA so far. They already broached the lax sexual ethics I know become central to the series apparently, but only as references. Otherwise it's just about a tiny teen girl who's super special and the special guys fight for her affection because she's so special.