A Court of Mist and Fury

This book was insufferable to begin with. I liked the direction of the story but it was hard to swallow at the beginning. Sarah J. Maas has an idea of where she wants to get the story to but she gets there too quickly, leaving the reader a bit whiplashed and mourning of what's been ripped away (and not in the good way). She unpacks it all later, which is when the book becomes much more enjoyable and I gobbled it all up but some of that information or thought process from the character would have been appreciated much earlier on. Plots and characters from the first book being dropped is fine but when it all happens in the first few pages, it feels like I wasted my time reading the first book. I like where the story went and I liked that it was challenging and confronting. That IS good in a book but needs to be done correctly. I see what people mean by Maas' writing being repeative and some of her word choices were annoying (for lack of a better word) but overall I enjoyed the writing. Maas is clever when it comes to reveals. Some of them are a bit cliche but that's not to say that I wasn't sitting there going “OH MY GOD NO WAY” still. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it!