House of Flame and Shadow

I became deeply invested in the world and character building so I needed to read it. But the narrative became rushed and there were a lot of interesting plots that seemed to have their heads chopped off. I wondered afterwards of this was supposed to be more than one book, but needed to end here for some reason, or if a deadline crept up on the author. A fun read, but I wanted more than that from the well established universe.

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the connection to her other universes was well established and then in this book seems incredibly forced and doesn't benefit or build the ACOTAR lore at all, but just deus ex machinas it. I hope this is somehow redeemed in other books in either series but I don't feel it will be. They just used it as kind of a way to use artifacts from one series in another. I expected the connection to be way deeper than that. It also doesn't benefit either series to deepen the lore in both, connect them, and then never explain how it affects either universe. it feels like the corny thing they do in MCU post credit scenes l
Readers and the established worlds deserve so much more.