A Court of Mist and Fury

This is a second book in a series, so anyone reading this is familiar with sjm's writting and tropes. I'm usually completely against love triangles, especially having the main character switch sides. And yet.

This story picks up after the events of under the mountain and Feyre is dealing with some serious ptsd. And her relationship with Tamlin is tested. In this we can test the ‘happily ever after', the depth of their relationship and the testing goes poorly, to say the least. I've seen many criticize sjm's treatment of Tamlin's character but really, she just enhanced (to the max) the few traits we knew about him, and we really didn't know much aside from him being ‘a protector'. And Feyre, well, she's not all that perfect herself.

Then we have Rhys, who we get to know this book and his side of things since before under the mountain and there the book really got me. I ended up loving him in this book and even his relationship with Feyre and his side of this world.

So if you can put aside the sjm-isms, the drastic changes from the first book, and keep an open mind, you might enjoy this one more then acotar.