It’s the last time I’m taking a book suggestion from TikTok. People made it seem like it was a beautifully written sexy masterpiece. It wasn’t nearly as smutty as TikTok made it seem and I found Sarah J Maas’s writing to be cliche and juvenile. Everyone says the first book was the least interesting and to keep reading the rest of the series, but my disappointment wasn’t about not keeping my interest.
SJM used the same descriptive metaphors and phrases over and over and over again it was so exhausting to read. By the end of it I was physically rolling my eyes each time I read “I could never paint it” or “cords of muscle” or “buttery yellow” or “jade colored eyes”. The “I could/would never paint it” was especially annoying. The whole painter/artist thing she had going for Feyre was so forced. It was obvious that SJM knows nothing about painting and just thinks it sounds romantic and cool. I’m a painter myself and it was just so cringy. Like come on, Feyre has a dying Faerie screaming in agony in front of her and she’s thinking about painting? It’s like if someone wrote a book about a football player with no knowledge about football. And when someone dies in front of the main character they start thinking about football. That’s how ridiculous it was to me. And come on, the answer to the riddle is LOVE? Jesus Christ.
I could keep going on about all the things that made ACOTAR so bad, but I’ll stop now before I write a whole book about it.
I don’t know why I finished this book.
by pnutbutterfuck