Title: A Court of Mist and Fury

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s  

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 624

Rating: 5/5 stars

*Warning: mature content. Parents please be advised.*

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Feyre survived Amarantha’s clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can’t forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin’s people.

Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms—and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world cleaved in two.

With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas’s masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive and action-packed series to new heights

Review:

This book is so amazing! I am going to be raving about it until May when the next book comes out. How am I supposed to wait that long?? No one in their right mind will wait calmly for the next book.

This book was beautifully written, and was packed full with adventure, love, and magic. One thing I gotta say is I loved the character development in this book. All of the characters grew so much, in either a good way or a bad way, and I really gotta give props to Maas for the perfect development of her characters.

Let’s start with our heroine, Feyre. She begins the book broken, as she does not know how to live with herself after the evil she committed and saw at Amarantha’s court. She wants to move on, but Tamlin will not allow her to. Tamlin is so afraid of losing Feyre that he pretty much goes crazy. But throughout the book, Feyre learns to accept the powers she received when becoming High Fae, and she learns how to use these powers. She becomes a strong character by the end of the book, and a force to be reckoned with.

Tamlin and Rhysand develop in different ways. In the first book, Tamlin was the loveable character who we connected well with and was rooting for. Now, after what he experienced, he becomes controlling towards Feyre, and the connection that the audience had with him becomes lost. In the opposite way, Rhysand went from being a feared character in the first book, to being more well known in the second book. We learn so much about his past that the reader cannot help but move their compassion and sympathy over from Tamlin to Rhysand, and Maas wrote this brilliantly. I do not want to say too much more without ruining the plot of the book for any readers, so I will leave it at that for character development.

I also loved learning about different courts. The Night Court was always described as dark and dreary, but we learn that it can also be beautiful as well. We get a glimpse into the Summer Court, too, as well as descriptions of the different powers belonging to different courts.

With the growing power of their enemies in Hybern, Feyre must learn to master her powers and get ready for a war that seems inevitable. I highly recommend this book, and you should start this series just to read this book!

Happy reading bookworms!