Ramblings about ACOTAR
Jul. 1st, 2025 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ritalovettDiscovering ACOTAR in my 20s is probably the biggest mistake because now it’s going to be my only personality trait for the next year. I loved this book, I can’t explain it. It reads like a spicy fairytale. I’m so excited to continue the series but at the same time, I almost don’t want to because I know I’m going to cry harder than what I did with this one.
I know people have a lot of qualms about this author’s writing style. And I totally get it; to me, it feels like she underexplains a lot of things, and breezes through the story. World building clearly isn’t her strong suit.
Like for example, when she had Feyre become High Fae at the end of the book to save her life, it just all happened so suddenly. At least in Twilight, we got a detailed explanation that was revealed over the course of four books of how a transformation into a vampire happens, and is essentially the driving point of the series. With Feyre’s transformation, we didn’t even know that a human becoming a High Fae was even POSSIBLE until it was convenient to the plot. And all the High Lords surrounded her, sprinkled some light on her and then she was woke up, and poof “I have become High Fae.”
So I get why people did not care much for Maas’ writing style. But outside of that, I found it really easy to read and to immerse myself into the story. It was easy to get through. I’m super excited to start the second book once I can finally get my hands on it.
I really loved the characters in this book, even if I didn’t care much for the world building. I found myself wanting to know about everyone in Fae realm. I can tell that the author focused more on the emotional journey of the characters rather than the mechanics of the world and magic systems.
Again, I loved Tamlin as a love interest and I kind of want to bury myself in this first book for a little while longer because everyone tells me that Tamlin ends up being someone we shouldn’t root for. I know that Feyre ends up with Rhys and I know so many people seem to love him, but based off my impression of him in the first book, I just don’t understand WHY? I know Tam wasn’t perfect, but he treated Feyre like a human being. Rhys has her dressed up and painted like his plaything, drugs her, and forces her to dance for him. And then he forces himself on her. And before you say “but Riiiiita! He was clearly only doing that because Amaranthe would have tortured both her and Tamlin had she found them getting ready to fuck each other! So really, he was saving her life by sexually assaulting her!”
I don’t care. :) It’s still assault. :)
So yeah. I’m really curious as to how this is going to play out. I’m curious as to how Feyre is going to develop as a character. I get the feeling that she’s going to have a lot of lingering trauma after being forced to kill those two innocent faeries. I’m strapping myself in for the long haul.
I know people have a lot of qualms about this author’s writing style. And I totally get it; to me, it feels like she underexplains a lot of things, and breezes through the story. World building clearly isn’t her strong suit.
Like for example, when she had Feyre become High Fae at the end of the book to save her life, it just all happened so suddenly. At least in Twilight, we got a detailed explanation that was revealed over the course of four books of how a transformation into a vampire happens, and is essentially the driving point of the series. With Feyre’s transformation, we didn’t even know that a human becoming a High Fae was even POSSIBLE until it was convenient to the plot. And all the High Lords surrounded her, sprinkled some light on her and then she was woke up, and poof “I have become High Fae.”
So I get why people did not care much for Maas’ writing style. But outside of that, I found it really easy to read and to immerse myself into the story. It was easy to get through. I’m super excited to start the second book once I can finally get my hands on it.
I really loved the characters in this book, even if I didn’t care much for the world building. I found myself wanting to know about everyone in Fae realm. I can tell that the author focused more on the emotional journey of the characters rather than the mechanics of the world and magic systems.
Again, I loved Tamlin as a love interest and I kind of want to bury myself in this first book for a little while longer because everyone tells me that Tamlin ends up being someone we shouldn’t root for. I know that Feyre ends up with Rhys and I know so many people seem to love him, but based off my impression of him in the first book, I just don’t understand WHY? I know Tam wasn’t perfect, but he treated Feyre like a human being. Rhys has her dressed up and painted like his plaything, drugs her, and forces her to dance for him. And then he forces himself on her. And before you say “but Riiiiita! He was clearly only doing that because Amaranthe would have tortured both her and Tamlin had she found them getting ready to fuck each other! So really, he was saving her life by sexually assaulting her!”
I don’t care. :) It’s still assault. :)
So yeah. I’m really curious as to how this is going to play out. I’m curious as to how Feyre is going to develop as a character. I get the feeling that she’s going to have a lot of lingering trauma after being forced to kill those two innocent faeries. I’m strapping myself in for the long haul.