Welp. I blinked and somehow it’s been almost a year since I read A Court of Thorns and Roses [Buy Bookshop LibroFM Amazon], so I guess it’s finally time to move forward with the series.

IF YOU HAVE NOT READ ACOTAR, READ NO FURTHER LEST YOU SEE SPOILERS. Do not whine to me if you ignore this warning.

A Court of Mist and Fury [Buy Bookshop LibroFM Amazon] picks up a couple months after the end of ACOTAR and Feyre is trying ot adjust to her life as High Fae. The experience under the mountain left her rather traumatized as you’d expect, but her idiot fiance Tamlin doesn’t understand this concept. Instead, he keeps her all locked up at home all the daggum time and she is losing her mind… as you would expect.

On her wedding day, she’s approaching Tamlin and realizes she doesn’t want to go through with it. Mentally, she’s screaming for anyone to help her and save her from the ceremony. Naturally, that’s when our good ol’ buddy Rhysand shows up to collect on their bargain. Feyre has to go spend a week with him every month, and he’s been so gracious to give her a couple months freedom so he really expects her to leave immediately. Of course, this is all a front because the tattoo that forged their bargain also allows him to hear her thoughts, so really, he was just answering her call for help.

Things happen over the next couple of months, and she ends up staying with Rhysand on a more permanent basis. Of course, things can’t be simple because we have a few hundred pages to go, so she gets caught up in a political mess where she might be the only one who can keep the realm of humans and the realm of fae at peace. So, she and her new Night Court framily are off on a dangerous adventure while she’s trying to figure out her feelings for Rhysand.

Chapter 55 of this book is so hyped for its spice and my hot take from ACOMAF is…. Chapter 30 of Fourth Wing is better spice. I said what I said. I’m not saying this scene is bad, but it did not grab my attention nearly as much as I had expected it would. Maybe if I had read it first, it would’ve stood out more to me, but alas, it didn’t. So sorry to all you hardcore ACOTAR girlies. Maybe I’ll read it again eventually and see if I still feel the same way.

Overall, I think this is better than the first book. I wasn’t a huge fan of Tamlin in ACOTAR and I definitely wanted to throw him off a cliff repeatedly throughout ACOMAF. I’m hoping they continue to get better as the series goes on, so I am planning to keep rolling into A Court of Wings and Ruin [Buy Bookshop LibroFM Amazon] soon. Hopefully, I won’t take a year to get to it this time.