Feyre was not as insufferable as Celeana was, but in return she barely had any personality
I loathed, hated, despised the fae in SJM’s world. I can not take them seriously with their growling and roaring and purring.
Tamlin was boring as stale bread and he and Feyre had little to no chemistry, going into this book with the knowledge that he’s not the endgame love interest but instead becomes a villain may have influenced my lack of investment somewhat but eh
Tamlin, in this book, was a decent enough person, not classist and not pro-slavery and he was not afraid of getting his own hands dirty to protect his people despite being royalty
Do not know why he was named after Tam Lin though, nothing about the story from the Ballad of Tam Lin had anything to do with his book’s plot. I assume SJM just chose it because of the vague parallels between Tam Lin’s story and BatB
I hate the fae in SJM’s world. The constant descriptions likening them to ~predators~ and ~born to kill without remorse~ was just cringeworthy. Write about werewolves or take the plunge and write about omegaverse ffs
I do not like Rhysand. SJM’s justifications for his actions were laughable and in one case made him actually look worse i.e. implying the only reason he didn’t “fully” sexually assault Feyre while he drugged her almost every night for two months being that he needed a “claim to innocence” to not have Tamlin on his ass. But otherwise he would have loved to “enjoy her” (*gag*).
Feyre’s name being Feyre is stupid and I HATE IT. NO HUMAN IN A WORLD WHERE THEY HATE FAE WOULD NAME THEIR CHILD THAT
The mask thing was stupid and useless as a way to “hide Tamlin’s beauty”. Actively makes Amarantha look like a fucking idiot
also I constantly forgot Tam and his court wore the masks
THE FUCKING RIDDLE AND FEYRE’S FIRST MENTAL GUESSES FOR THE ANSWER. NO BRAIN CELL IN SIGHT
also the fact that Amarantha told every to not help makes me think everyone already knew the answer was love the second she finished saying the riddle
Amarantha with all her vain, petty resentfulness and rigged, unfair contests was the closest thing to a proper fae I got. Would have loved to see her threaten to petrify someone’s eyeballs at least once.
Did I mention I do not like SJM’s fae bc I really, really do not
It’s like explained later on how he didn’t REALLY sexually harrass her and that this was a good thing actually but yeah no this is BAD bad
Yeah I got to that part just now and it’s SO STUPID
The wording also makes sound like he absolutely would loved to “properly” sexually assault her while drugged and the only thing keeping him from doing it is that he couldn’t wriggle himself out of a fight with Tamlin if he did, not that it is an inheritently fucked up thing to do
