Personally I feel slighted that there isn’t more Eris Vanserra fanfiction on the internet and I’ve decided to make it a goal to fix that in the next few months.
Wait a minute yall… we’re not gonna walk away from ACOSF without talking about Eris.
Is no one going to point out that he was tortured by Beron to get information after he was kidnapped by the Mortal Queen? Who was supposed to be his ally?
That the first thing he did when Eris returned was tortured him instead of being glad to see his son?
Like we knew he was an awful male.. that he clearly beat the Lady of Autumn and that he killed Lucien’s lover in front of him and was willing to kill him so I’m not suprised to know he also beat his children. But fuck… I need Eris to either kill him or get away from him and take his mother on his way.
“Beron tortured you?.”
“Who cares what my father does to me”.
Cassian unpacked each word. Beron had tortured his own son for information, rather than thanking the Mother for returning him. But Eris had held out. Fed Beron another lie.
“Get that pitying look off your face, I know what sort of creature my father is. I don’t need your sympathy.”
Also the whole Morrigan situation:
“Don’t believe the lies they tell you about me.”
“Oh?”
Eris nodded to where Mor watched them from beside Feyre and Rhys, her face neutral and aloof. “She knows the truth but has never revealed it.”
“Why?.”
“Because she’s afraid of it.”
Then is the matter of Lucien:
“And what of the brother you hunted down alongside me? The one whose lover you helped execute before his eyes?”
“You know nothing about what happened that day. Nothing.”
“Indulge me.”
“How do you think he made it to the Spring border. I wasn’t there— when they did it. Ask him. I refused. It was the first and only time I have denied my father anything. He punished me. And by the time I got free … They were going to kill him, too. I made sure they didn’t. Made sure Tamlin got word —anonymously— to get the hell over to his own border.”
I’m really hoping Beron dies and he becomes High Lord!!
Now that has been months since the release of A Court of Silver Flames, I can safely put out my two cents that absolutely no one asked about.
I will start with things that I really enjoyed:
Nesta’s journey into self-healing, and more into accepting herself and the past mistakes she has made. I think SJM did a great job into describing her mental health journey and I loved loved loved every single bit of it. Did I cry when she broke down in the mountains? Yes, but dont tell anyone.
Nesta and Azriel friendship. That was something that I was manifesting into the universe and I was glad to see it become canon.
Nesta’s new circle of friends. I loved how she was immediately accepted by Gwyn and Emerie, how the three of them complement each other.
Nesta’s journey into becoming a Valkyrie and how she’s planning to one day lead a female unit.
Nesta’s saving baby Nyx and Feyre. That was an emotional crazy scene and I loved it. (However, I wished we had a scene where she was holding baby Nyx).
Eris. That’s it. I just love that he had a bigger role and I’m hoping to see more of him in the future.
I loved seeing Elain stand for herself. And I’m here to see her journey. (Note aside: I loved those little crumbs we got from Elriel)
The House of Wind.
Helion.
Now let’s get into things that I found lacking or absolutely unnecessary or I just simply hated. And oh boy, it might be a big list:
Cassian and Nesta’s relationship. Now, I shipped these two idiots since the moment Cassian showed up. I just vision them together (same with Elain and Azriel). I loved them in Acowar, and the bonus chapter but my god their relationship in Acosf was shit. The whole story. I hated every second of it. I’m gonna give Nesta a pass when it comes to her showing emotions because she’s a 24yrs woman who has been raised to be an Ice Queen, but Cassian!? A +500 warrior scared to ask if he can stay after sex to save his feelings? Naaaaaah that was pretty shit. And Nesta deserved more.
Dont get me wrong, I loved them training together, I loved them being protective over each other, I loved Cassian’s words in the mountains (on that punishing hike that I wont even comment)… but Cassian let me down in this book.
I was expecting a whole love speech coming out of his mouth that would make me cry for weeks. I was expecting him actually telling Nesta why he loves her, or at least a better mating revealing.
All we got was sex, sex, sex, sex, oh and did I mention sex already? It became so boring at one point that as soon as they went at it again, I just skipped the whole paragraph/chapter. (And yes, this is coming from a pretty dark romance reader).
Rhysand and the inner circle are the perfect people who can never do any wrong. I hated that we never had a conversation between Nesta and Feyre where they fixed their issues, or Nesta and Rhysand, or Nesta and Mor? Or Nesta and Elain!???
Nesta took dancing lessons with Mor for a month and yet we never had a scene between the two of them at least bonding? Or letting some shit out? I mean, the same Mor who at the beginning was “toss her to the Night Court, we dont need her here”. Couldnt we just have a scene of Mor regretting saying that? No, we just had Nesta apologising to everything and everyone for what?
Nesta’s and Amren relationship. What the fuck was that!? Nesta asking Amren for forgiveness on her knees. That rage me for days.
Nesta asking Cassian to forgive her because of how she behaved last Solstice and Cassian was like “oh no worries, I already forgave you”. Dafuq!? Excuse me sir, shouldn’t you also ask Nesta to forgive you because of what you said to her that night too!?
Nesta losing her powers. I get that she didnt want them, but considering she was in a journey to accept and love herself, I hated that she had to get rid of that part of her.
The whole “Rhysand you should be High King”. That shit better never fucking happen. That’s the weakest plot ever.
The Blood Rite was unnecessary. The stairs scenes were unnecessary.
The Illyrian rebels plotline that was so important in Acofas but somehow got all washed away in Acosf as if it was a fever dream.
We can all agree that sex was the main plot in this book and everything else was a background noise. Does anyone know anymore where the fuck is this serie going? Cause I dont. But will I still read the next books? Abso-fucking-lutely.
The fandom wars. The Nessian story was so fucking bad in Acosf… everyone needed to jump to a next ship. And who we got? Elucien? Who can’t stand to be in the same room? Elriel? Who are not allowed to be in the same room? Or Gwynriel? Who only exists because people hate Elain and they finally have someone else than Mor or Emerie to ship with Az? (And yes, I said what I said and you know is true).
Amren was a bitch in Acosf and I dont know why she keeps getting away with it. She has no powers now, someone better shut her up. Which is a shame cause I really liked her in Acowar.
Tamlin storyline. Leave the man alone. You got your happy ending, no need to rub it on his face every damn second.
Lucien and his band of exiles. Do we even know what the fuck is happening in that house they live?
In conclusion, Acosf was a 6/10. I think there were so so many opportunities to make those 800 pages memorable and all we got was sex, stairs, and more sex?
I get that the smutty scenes sell better, but not when the sex are just used as a refill. The reason why smutty scenes are so popular, is because they are the culmination of a well developed relationship. But if they’re starting as friends with benefits that turns into “ups, now we shackled together forever and I didnt even ask if that’s what you want but why dont you want it?”… you know it’s going to end up with a bad taste.
Anyway, as I said.. this is how I personally felt regarding Acosf. Everyone is entitled to their own feelings.
Summary: Nesta Archeron has earned herself banishment from Velaris and a one-way ticket to Illyria, courtesy of her little sister. Tired of having her agency stripped away, Nesta decides the time has come to strike out on her own and runs from the Night Court without a backwards glance.
Cassian has bided his time with Nesta on his High Lady’s behalf. When he realizes that Nesta had set off without him, Cassian decides to take matters into his own hands. He is going to bring Nesta home. He’ll just have to find her first.
It felt like someone had taken an axe to his head; the sharp, pulsing pain was so acute that it sent him collapsing back into bed the moment he tried to rise. Nausea quickly accompanied the ache, rolling through his body the second his head hit the mattress. It took every scrap of self-control to not vomit all over himself, and he wasn’t entirely sure he’d conquer that particular battle yet. The acidic contents of his stomach still sloshed around, threatening to spew out of him like a bolt from the blue.
He rolled onto his side, dragging the pillow over his head in a pathetic attempt to block out the sunlight. His mouth was dry. His too-thick tongue was sticking to the roof of his mouth. Water. A sip of water should help.
Cassian blindly reached out towards the side table, grasping around in search of a glass of water, anything to rinse out his cottonmouth. His hand landed onto an empty bottle of whiskey - the very same bottle that started it all - and a wave of nausea came crashing back. He moaned pathetically, the sound muffled by the pillow and barely audible over the throbbing in his head.
I really need to get it together, he thought feebly.
“It’s just Cassian,” said Cassian, “and I’m not one for pretty flowers. Although truth be told, your daughter-in-law did help me appreciate the more understated benefits that a garden can possess.”
That was the moment we started to like each other. Eris had realized, all those years ago. That was the moment we became friends.
But sometimes Nesta would reach out and clasp his hand, squeezing it in a show of solidarity.
It was around that time Eris realized his feelings for his wife had grown beyond simple friendship.
We still have a little more time together.”
What I’ve been trying to explain, Prince of Bastards, is even though Nesta may become distracted by the occasional flight of fancy, she always returns home to Autumn.”
OMG THIS WAS AMAZING. THANK YOU. like y'all know I’m a massive nessian shipper but man does ErisxNesta make me feel THINGS I live it. I just love them so so much. Ugh is it wrong that I’m dreading Nesta and Cassian getting together???? This was just perfect. The courtly passive aggressive taunts. The bat boys taunting Cassian. ERIS and Eris falling in love and not just lust and omg he doesn’t know Nesta and CAS and mates and my poor boy is going to be HuRT omg. This is exactly what I needed after acosf
okay so I gotta say it .. I hate that Rhysand and Feyre are binded to eachother with this “Death bargain” . It is completely stupid.
Cause okay they’re clearly madly in love with one another and don’t wanna live in this world without eachother, i get that it’s romantic asf- IF THEY DIDNT HAVE A CHILD- did they think about what that would do to Nyx ? To their other children? If they died before he can get to know them ? And is left wondering why he had to lose not one but BOTH his parents and by CHOICE at that. They clearly didn’t think it through, and yes he’ll have the IC but it won’t be the same of having both your parents.
Do I wanna get completely RAILED by Eris and become his wife for an arranged political status and power, then eventually learn why he is the way he is and why he did the things he did, while still hating eachothers guts, but still getting comfortable enough where if anyone talks bad about the other we become defensive and protective while still denying eachothers sexual tension, where we’re both labeled as horrible people but deep down inside we know we’re both just misunderstood and have gone through traumatic experiences, but still believe neither of us are capable of love, until we see just how powerful we are and how together- with our flames-that power is unstoppable- YES, I do
Soo I think as a fandom we can all agree that Rhys has the smallest dick out of all of them right ? Cause Feyre ain’t describe it like Nesta described CASSIANS- shit her HAND couldn’t fit AROUND IT-
And we all know Azriel has the largest Wingspan sooo y’all see where I’m going with this
Anyone else wondering wtf is going on with Jurian and Vassa and Lucien ? Cause I know y’all felt the tension that ONE time we seen them all together! Love triangle ?
And that makes me wonder what does that mean for Elain and Lucien ? Mhmnn
PLEASEE I think I need help because the idea of Eris and Nesta had me SCREAMING. You’re telling me they wouldn’t be Powerful together?
Ole boy was ready to give it ALL for her after a DANCE … maybe it’s just my enemies to lovers trauma but THAT couple would of been HOT asf … LITERALLY BURNING (with their flames)
“He said: Are you my sacrifice, sweet flesh? How pale and young you are. Tell me, are they resuming the sacrifices to the waters once more? And when she didn’t respond, the kelpie said, No gods can save you. I shall take you, little beauty, and you shall be my bride before you are my supper.”- Sarah J. Maas
Idk but I feel like this was THE book to actually get to know Eris and it didn’t really happen. I genuinely looked forward to having him around and him having his redemption arc-
— Also as much as I love Nessian- it would have been fun to see Nesta and Eris interact more etc.
We definitely hyped ACOSF too much -spoiler I guess-
idk I feel like we had all these amazing theories about Nestas power and what she REALLY is and what Elain’s part in this book was going to be and how Eris came into the story- shit we even seen a little love triangle thing going on with Jurian, Vassa and Lucien and we still got NOTHING at the end
I was completely let down.. don’t get me wrong the book was good asf but we didn’t get any real answers ..
I just don’t ship Azriel with neither Elain or Gwyn.. I feel like there’s just something missing! I’m starting to love the idea of Azriel and Rhys’ sister having a strong connection before her death
Just think about it, they would have grown up together as children and been around each-other a lot ugh I can totally see it. SJM needs to pull one of her crazy ass ideas and bring her back to life
I’m ready to say my possible unpopular opinions about ACOSF
SPOILERS
1) Nessian needed more fluff and heart to heart moments. As much sexual tension as there was for the past 2 books I just wish in this book they focused on the actual lovey dovey parts
2) I said this before and I’ll say it AGAIN, I genuinely didn’t care that Mor was gone the majority of this book . Thank you .
3) WE NEEDED MORE AZ, i still feel like Az was barely in this book as well, I was sooo ready for more interactions with him
4) don’t hate me but I think it’s clear I LOVED the idea of Nesta and Eris. That ship has sunk to the bottom of the ocean to never see the surface again but I still think they would have been a POWERFUL ass couple..
5) ATLEAST more banter between Eris and Nesta was necessary. Sjm could have done so much more with them as a friendship and she just wasted it. I kind of wanted them to be like a Fenrys and Aelin. Him pining over her cause she’s just so fucking amazing and powerful and beautiful and her just chilling knowing she is amazing and powerful
6) Nyx is the cutest baby but his parents are DUMB. That’s it. That’s all . I love my feysand but they’re complete idiots
7) I genuinely don’t care care much about Amren and Tarquins relationship.. they spent a great amount of time minding their business as they should
8) ELAIN IS TOTALLY BEING SET UP TO BE EVIL. I am 100% HERE FOR ITTTTT. We need evil elain to try to kill them all and make Az go crazy trying to find her and idk maybe someone dies !?!?!?!?
