After finishing the first three of these and, to my unending surprise and delight, really enjoying them, I was sceptical that it could continue into books four and five.

This one is a bridging novel - diluting the Feyre perspective across the other characters - in anticipation, I guess, of the perspective moving in the next book.

It would be hard, almost impossible, to maintain the sheer build and crescendo of the first three of these novels. The intensely emotional drive required to sustain the relationship between Feyre and Rhysand would be a challenge to carry much longer.

So I get the need for this little novella - we need to see High Fae *life* when it's not just fighting for existence. We needed a little frippery, some fun.

My problem with that is that I don't think SJM is very good at it. She does crazy plot, and twists and spice and romance and heartache and heartbreak very well. But the dialled down parts of life? Not so much.

It was fine, and I plowed through it in a day - she remains readable. But I think these books need a lot of plot to sustain them

I'm still Rhysand til I die though.