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Beta Read through!

This one wasn't my favorite. Sloan's story didn't make a lot of sense to me, and the virgin to immediately pregnant trope is horrible in my opinion. Genuinely I hated this. I loved her and Jude's debauchery, and submissive to his dominant, it was really sexy and spicy. But why god why did she have to be a virgin, never have any experience, and then get pregnant?? I feels like a cop out and I hate it.

I hated her refusing to acknowledge her sister Carrigan, and idk I think this one in the series just wasn't for me. Book 2 still prevails!

I am however very interested in the next book of the series, and can guess who ends up with who. I hope it's as good as I hope!

This is Cillian and Olivia's story. Also really interesting, and I enjoyed it, although book 2 is still my favorite of the series.

I loved him turning from playboy to serious contender, and being so open to Olivia for whatever she needed. I felt for Olivia and her daughter, and loved the angle she brought to the story.

This one felt like the highest stakes out of the 3 books so far, and it was captivating! I breezed through this book in 1 evening, and enjoyed it a lot. I also really liked how we wrapped the Russian mob family back into the story.

I am SO GLAD I found the ACOMAF Rhys perspective from Illyrian Tremors on A03. I have always wanted to read this from his perspective, because I imagine there is a lot behind the scenes we don't get to see from him.

This was heartbreaking and so incredible. If SJM ever needed a ghost writer, Illyrian tremors is the one.

The story from Rhys' perspective is so powerful, and shows just how much someone in love is willing to give and push to the side and sacrifice for their love/mate/partner.

He has major PTSD, trauma, anxiety and depression too, but tries to keep it together as much as he can for Feyre and his inner circle. It is heartbreaking, watching him try to be strong for everyone.

I loved getting insight into his thoughts and feelings, and loved seeing his reactions to the note passing - I loved Feyre's but his utter delight was so good omg.

I personally think this should be canon with the series, and I will be reading it every time I reread.

So much crying.

First off, I loved Feyre in this book - unercover boss b*tch, sly cruel High Lady of the Night Court, so powerful and hell bent on stopping the war and Hybern as a whole.

Second, I was heartbroken watching everything with her sisters. It is devastating seeing it from her perspective.

The war was written so so so well, and again, so.many.tears. This is my third reread and I still cried through like half of this book. It was so powerful, so full of emotion, it just got to me every single time.

We got to see the Suriel again, we saw war, we met with the high lords, we loved and lost, just so many things and emotions happened in this book.

Ill say it again in this review, but I think Tamlin deserves a redemption arc. I also think Lucien deserves so much more than he has now.

I would absolutely go feral for novellas about the other high lords, especially a super spicy one about Helion! Can we please have this?

This book has so much packed into it I don't even know how to coherently write my review.

The one negative thing I have to say about this book is that I hated that Rhys died and we did the kernel of power thing to bring him back. I don't think he should have died at all! It could have been Feyre putting it back together and loses a bunch of her powers, or Nesta and Elaine come help her, or all the high lords work together with her to close it. I just think he was 1 person to many to die and come back to life. I don't want him to sacrifice like that, and it was unnecessary. The dad coming and then dying was enough sadness.

Everything else was oh so good!

This is my favorite book in the ACOTAR series. I dream about Rhys and the way he helps Feyre, it is genuinely the most beautiful thing. She doesn't want to admit she needs help, but he does it anyways. She pushes back and is a bit cruel, he takes it in stride and makes her write "Rhysand is the most handsome High Lord" over and over again until she can read.

I loved this book not only for their relationship progression, but also for the depiction of depression, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and healing. Both of them are struggling, and I thought Sarah J Maas did such a great job depicting these feelings and thoughts in the book. It is so powerful to read experiences like this in a popular book, because it helps normalize mental health issues and bring recognition to what it can look like from the outside.

Watching Feyre heal slowly and find joy again with Rhys is incredible, and I will never not love this book. It is an always must read each year, if not more than 1x in a year.

I feel for Rhys and can only imagine what he is going through on his own, but admire him and can't believe he pushes his own issues aside to help her with hers.

Thankfully we get another interaction with the beloved Suriel, and unfortunately, we get to see a desperate and horrid part of Tamlin. I do not like Tamlin, but I will say I do think he deserves a redemption arc.

The end of the book brings me to tears every damn time, and I love it so much. This book and series as a whole is a must read!

ACOTAR follows Feyre, a young woman who cares for her family until she kills a wolf (fae) and is captured by a beast who turns out to be an incredibly handsome but moody/grumpy fae named Tamlin. As she goes through her new life in the Spring Court, she begins to fall for Tamlin, while also realizing things around Spring Court are a bit off - something isn't right. Romance blossoms, problems grow, and she must figure out both what she can do to help and what she is truly feeling for Tamlin.

This was my first dip into fantasy-romance books and it ended with me diving full force into the deep end. I could not put it down, it was fantastic!

I really enjoyed the strong, stubborn, feisty FMC Feyre, she was great! I loved going along with her through her journey. Sarah J. Maas did a great job with world building and descriptions of everything, I felt like I was in the spring court and could visualize it perfectly, as if I was part of the book itself. Tension grew and I was sucked into the story, dying to know what happened next!

Reading ACOTAR opened me up to a whole world of books I never considered and I am so glad I gave it a chance.

If you like world building, fae, heated romance, strong FMC, and general fantasy, this is a must-read!

Well this is my favorite read of the early summer so far! Assistant to the Villain is a delightful read, and an instant favorite and 5⭐️ book for me.

I normally read heavy, dark, spicy, etc. books and this wasn't that, but I still LOVED it.

The banter was witty, the FMC was smart and a little bit odd but so relatable. The MMC was broody and villainous, there was resistance to the attraction, a grumpy sunshine vibe, and so much more.

I loved this book so much! It was a perfect read and I cannot wait for the second one!

The way I and any other oldest sibling/sister can relate to Evie caring for her sister and taking care of her family is uncanny, and then watching the villain fall for her despite his best attempt at remaining detached? My heart 😍

I loved the chapters from the villain's POV. It was wonderful to see him breaking down his unfeeling walls one by one against his will, because he couldn't resist Evie. Ugh! Just loved it so much.

August cannot come fast enough for me to get my hands on book 2, Apprentice to the Villain! I recommend everyone pick this one up!

I liked this one more than the first one. Carrigan's story was really interesting, I loved the 'resistant to being sold off in a marriage/falls for the super enemy' plot line.

It was dark, spicy, and oh so enjoyable. I really liked James and Carrigan, their push and pull, and their cocky attitudes towards each other. Carrigan is so strong and I loved her as a character and FMC.

This is definitely my favorite of the series!

Mafia romance, arranged marriage, rival families.

Pretty good story, I enjoyed reading it. You'd think the 2 in the arranged marriage would hate each other a bit more, but it was moreso an insta-love situation and I think Katee Robert did a good job with it!

There was a lot more to the story than just the romance, and I felt like it was interesting. It was a quick read for me, but enjoyable!

Teague and Callie are great MC's and the plot was interesting. It was nice to read about a mobster MMC who isn't all bad, but is actually a decent human. Now I love a good morally grey character, but Teague was a good guy and I liked that.

I LOVED this book.

It was a quick read, but so interesting, detailed and oh so good. The tension between Misery and Lowe was incredible, the tension between the vampires, werewolves, and humans was great, and the plot was super good!

I loved Misery as our FMC, and really felt for her and everything she has gone through in her life. She didn't deserve any of it and still continued to sacrifice over and over. To feel as though you don't belong anywhere? I cannot imagine, and I loved seeing her persevere regardless. She held her own in werewolf territory, and all while continuing to try and find her sister and staying under the radar.

Lowe can take me as his mate anytime... he is sexy, smart, a good man, and a great leader. I loved him going back and forth with Misery, wanting her and wanting to trust her, trying to protect his sister and his people, all while dealing with his new role as alpha.

Then we have the spice, the spice tension, and knotting??? 10/10 spice for me. It was so good and there was so much build up, I loved it!

I loved this book so much, I did not want it to finish. I truly hope Ali Hazelwood continues to write more in this universe, because there are at least 2 other couples' stories I would love to read!

Legends & Lattes is phenomenal and such a kindhearted found family read, perfect for a gloomy day.

I normally read things that are much heavier than this, but I have to say Viv and her crew were exactly what I didn’t know I needed. Viv was such a good FMC, she had such big hopes and dreams, and was determined to start her new life no matter what. I loved how she gathered her found family, each interaction was so perfectly timed and wonderful, It warmed my heart so much! I normally read high stakes, dark, high action reads, but this cosy fantasy book was great for my soul. It didn't have a lot of action, but painted a picture of Viv's story so well that I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Anyone else read this and feel the urge to open their own coffee shop?

Honestly this was so happy and cosy and I loved it so much! Definitely recommend everyone give it a read!

How does it feel was... well honestly, I don't know how I feel.

I read it in a day, and while it was a quick interesting read, there were many parts I didn't like.

The FMC Callie was not my favorite. She was very much a 'pick me, i'm not like other girls' character, and was written to have no friends, be a real life barbie with blonde hair, perfect figure and short (and have it mentioned like 20 times) and doesn't cuss, but is a very intelligent scientist. Idk, I don't like the vibes of everyone loving her, like a snow white situation, it was giving special snowflake... and turned me off of her as a character. To add to this, her weird story about some professor who belittled her, then asked her out, and then she was offered his job right after? Idk, it didn't make sense. Also, she was tortured and imprisoned by the MC and then still was into him? I do not understand.

Then we have the MMC who is trying to kill her, imprisons her with a weird creature who tries to r*pe and SA her, and who gets off on her fears while hurting her. He avoids her for the whole time and then suddenly is deeply in love with her after like 1 conversation.. Idk, I didn't like that either. Sure he was hot, but no intelligent woman is going to fall for a man like that, i'm sorry. He is not a Rhys in acotar situation, he is 1000x worse.

The trial thing was similar to the acotar trial but also totally different. It was not particularly original, but it was interesting to read. I didn't love the romance portion, again, it didn't make any sense to me at all and went from 0-100 so fast I was confused.

Finally, the ending. I HATED the twist. I did not like it, and it didn't make sense for the story being from her POV. It was too much of a twist to be plausible and just information withheld from the reader. I honestly felt betrayed as the reader and I did not like it. It was weird and out of the blue and felt like a different plot line, but it didn't fit into this book.

While I am writing this review I have already read the second one and it got even worse... so that's great.

Overall, I think this just was not for me. I didn't love it. It had potential and I idea was super interesting, but it was not for me.

I didn't love book 1, but I read it in a day and enjoyed it enough to check the second one out and give it a read... my mistake.

Unfortunately, this felt like the author got a lot of love from tik tok on book 1 and rushed a book 2. It didn't make any sense, I hated the love triangle, the twist at the end (again), and in general most things about this book. The voyeurism spice scene while Walter and her bff watched? So fricken cringe and weird. I don't think turning the best friend into a love interest was the right call.

And WALTER? WHY??? Literally did not need to happen.

Overall I was so disappointed in this book, and felt like it really needed some heavy editing and revamping. I did not like it and didn't think book 2 was done well.