So first of all, I need to say that I did really enjoy this book! I liked it a lot more than A Court of Thorns and Roses. However, I'm still giving them both 4 star ratings (confusing, I know). I just have some mixed feelings about this one...

To start, for the first 140+ pages...I wanted to add this to my DNF list. If I hadn't been buddy reading, I don't think I would have continued on. Luckily my friend was ahead of me and told me that it does indeed get better, so I pushed through. To me, the first hundred or so pages just seemed like it was dragging on and on. Without giving too much away...I course I understand why the author needed to do that sluggish beginning, but it was just too much for me. I was bored and not enjoying it at all. Plus, reading about how one character was treating another was absolutely infuriating. When the book picked up, I enjoyed it a LOT more!

I picked up on a lot of repetition in this one, which is my biggest reading pet peeve that I cannot let go for some reason. So of course that annoyed me. For example, the use of the word "prick." At one point I actually said out loud: "Good lord!! PLEASE use some other name-calling word other than that one!" Some instances were funny because you could tell Feyre was throwing it in Rhysand's face as a joke. But for the majority it was just too much. Some of the dialogue was also felt a little lame. For example when Lucien stated, "You're dead. You, and your entire cursed court." After they didn't get their way. Like, what is this? Middle school?

I found myself liking the characters in this book a lot more than A Court of Thorns and Roses, so that was refreshing. I think Mor was my favorite, but Cassian reminded me of a childhood friend so I was also drawn to him.

I really enjoyed the romance factor in this book. It wasn't over done like I always worry about. Though there was some repetition in the sex scenes that irked me.

I also really loved every single scene in Velaris!

And oh my goodness; The last 100 pages of the book were absolutely INCREDIBLE! What an ending!


Favorite passages:
“I often wondered what it was like to be that free and so settled within yourself.”

The slightly larger of the two, his face masked in shadow, chuckled and said, "Come on, Feyre. We don't bite. Unless you ask us to."
Surprise sparked through me, setting my feet moving.
Rhys slid his hands into his pockets. "The last I heard, Cassian, no one has ever taken you up on that offer."

"You do what you love, what you need."