Elucien modern au

imagine elucien dating in high school, the hot shot couple everyone thought would marry one day. Lucien calls her pet names his favorite being rose.

Elain breaks up him(it's crucial for it to be her)

she regrets her decision to end things, years later they run into each other

Lucien has a forearm sleeve of roses

completely random, I just wanted tatted Lucien, yes inspo was taken from haunting adeline

A Court of Wings and Ruin Review ( Kind of)

WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ACOWAR READ AT YOUR OWN RISK :P

I gushed for this book for so many books but I found myself a bit disappointed at the end.

There were no Rhys standout moments. I hope I could at least see one where Rhys really stood out.I guess, there were times that he stood out but not just reached the standard I have set (like the ones in ACOMAF, they were really good.)

Too much sexy scenes. Don’t get me wrong, I like the sexiness in the book but I felt like it was too much. I felt like some were put there as fillers or buffers that I deemed unnecessary. As if the author wrote because she knows we want them.

I liked everything about the war though. I felt like it was really a good war story. But it lacked something powerful, something striking, scary about the King of Hybern. Maybe that’s why SJM tried to scare us with the ‘Rhys, Amren, Cassian, Nesta death.’

But it’s what disappointed me most, Rhys’ death that is. I find it so cliche and predictable, to kill him off then bring him back to life. I hoped that SJM did not “kill” him off, it’s unnecessary. It’s very understandable with Feyre’s case but with Rhys, nope. She should have opted not to break the Cauldron. Maybe she wrote it for Tamlin, to be kind of redeemed or for us to get emotionally shaken for a bit. What happens to his power though?

Likewise with Amren’s. Or SJM should just have killed her off for real, that way we could be emotionally broken and we would have been emotionally attached to the book. But oh no, no.

And the other High Lords? Helion was pretty cool, I only he hoped that SJM gave him more “air time” as in MOREEE. All of the other High Lords should have been given more spotlight. But only Helion and Tarquin, deserve so much MOREEE.

And with Cassian/Nesta and Lucien/Elain/Azriel, SJM did a pretty good job with opening or introducing their own story arc for the next books.

I like Nesta, she’s a sensitive badass.

As for Feyre, I don’t know. I felt her sassiness during the first half but when it came to the second half, it was like she’s all over the place. Sometimes, I feel like she’s a showoff, sometimes meh. But she’s really a good sister and wife.

I understand Morrigan’s actions, they’re actions not fix her but to shoo Az away. I just hoped that she told him already. Like really tell him.

Jurian, I kind of known that he’s kind of a good guy. What I’ve learned in this series is that not all villains are essentially bad. And not all stars are essentially good. In short, they’re humans - Fae but still not perfect.

They can have a good and bad side. It just depends on whose narrative.

That’s why even though Tamlin was a tool, I still feel for him. I still feel sad and sorry for him. I know it wasn’t really his redemption. Like Rhys in the first book (who got his redemption, salvation, and explanation in book 2), Tamlin deserves more credit than we actually give him, if we have even given him. I know he’s a tool, but so was Rhys, the only difference is that Rhys got to tell his story. Which is why I’m rooting for his own story to be written. To finally give him redemption, salvation, explanation. I know there’s no explaination to why he hurt Feyre and there should be none. He loves her, but he loves himself more that he became so obsessed, greedy, possessive, bitter. I hope he could truly find peace, happiness, freedom, and love. I think his story would be the saddest of all, a High Lord who never wanted to be one when his family was killed then was cursed by an obsessive witch (fae, i know), the High Lord who sat on his ass, who never fought, who loved but failed to actually love, who sat on his ass while his love broke, who handed his court, his everything to ‘save’ his love, who was fooled, who fooled, who blamed the wrong guy for the death of his family, who knew nothing, and who hoped for her happiness. I have lot’s of things to say about him but let’s curtail to that.

Overall, I think the book was good, but not good enough to reach my expectations. The half of it was kind of rushed, like SJM ideas were just shoved in then just pieced them out together. I felt there were lots of unnecessary scenes, and that there should have been more emphasis to tit-and-tat but the unnecessary ones filled in the space. SJM has tendency to be sloppy but sometimes her imagination makes up for that.

The next three books I guess and hope would be about:

1) Elain/Azriel/Lucien/Vassa/Helion 2) Cassian/Nesta/Morrigan/and some other guy 3) Tamlin or 4) Eris or 5) Bryaxis

Rating: 4/5