A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

THIS BOOK. THIS FREAKING BOOK! It has taken at least twenty years off my life in the last 100 pages alone! It lures you in with Feyre being a total bamf in the beginning and then crushes your very soul and cause much ugly crying! So basically this book was amazing.

Like I said above, the book starts out with Feyre back at the Spring Court, and she's there to fuck stuff up and drink tea, and she just finished her tea... So Feyre is spying on the Spring Court who has allied with Pythian's sworn enemy Hybern. The king is like really super evil™, and has sent some emissaries to the Spring Court to figure out the best way to invade the human lands so the fae can enslave them once again. Feyre must pretend to be the swooning damsel in distress she was before Under The Mountain, all the while tying to find away to save the human world from their own Queens' folly of allying with Hybern.

This book was so good, my second favorite in the series. I loved the first book, but the slow burn romance in the second one was the best thing ever so it's the best in the series. This book also redeems Tamlin a bit, he's still a jerk, but Feyre is able to forgive him in the end, after she completely crushes him in the beginning. It also shows just why Rhys and Feyre are soulmates. I recently re-read the whole series because of this book's release, and I looked at my old review of the first book. I said how I would be upset if Feyre ended up with Rhys because it took true love to break the curse on Tamlin, because it was Feyre's love of Tamlin and his people that helped her to face the horrors and trials Under The Mountain, and while that is true, it doesn't mean that that love was forever. Feyre and Tamlin could not reconcile who they each had become after the events of the first book, their needs had changed after that and it left scars. While I do think their feelings we genuine in the first book, I also recognize that with Rhys everything he does is to make sure Feyre has a choice and plays and active role in her own life. Which is so important after she had that taken from her first by Amaranth, and then by Tamlin.

This book was so very good, and I'm sad it's over because I want more. I am excited since Sarah J. Maas is writing more for this series, thought not about the same characters apparently. Which makes me sad, but I realize that Rhys and Feyre's story is over, but still I love them so much I want to know so much more about their lives. Maybe the next books will focus on Feyre's sisters? One can only hope.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

So I recently re-read this book because of the release of the third in the series. This one is still my favorite of the series. While the first book was good and introduced us to the world of Pythian, this book made everything more real. The stakes are higher with the threat of Hybern and Feyre having been made into a fae in the last book. What makes this book so good is that we get to know Rhysand so much better than we did in the first book.

This book starts out a few months after Under The Mountain and Feyre, understandably, has been having nightmares and trouble dealing with what she had to do to save Tamlin, who has also changed and not for the better. Tamlin has become more controlling and protective of Feyre and she feels smothered by it. But because she "loves" Tamlin she feels she must accept her new role no matter how much it chafes. She hasn't heard from or seen Rhysand since their last encounter after the events of Under The Mountain, but she still worries about the deal she struck with him to save her life. Everything comes to a head at the wedding of Tamlin and Feyre. Where in the first book such an event might have been looked upon more favorably by the reader, this time you feel desperate for Feyre to escape it as she starts to panic and realizes she cannot marry him. She begs for someone, anyone, to save her and Rhys appears to do so still in the villainous disguise we became accustomed to in the last book. Rhys takes Feyre to the Night Court and Feyre starts to realize how poisonous Tamlin's love for her is, all the while finding herself and the strength within herself to carry on thanks to her new friendships with Rhys and his companions.

I won't give away anymore because this book is such a fun read! I absolutly love Rhys and this book does a good job of explaining how complex his character is and his motivations that we only got a glimpse of in the first book. I adore the allusions to different fairy tales and myths, especially the Persephone and Hades one going on in the book. I adore this series and I' eager to see what Sarah J. Maas does in the books after A Court of Wings and Ruin since she said she was going to focus on other characters besides the ones in the first three novels.

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