A Court of Mist and Fury

How I love this book. ACOMAF is my favorite of the series for a few good reasons -

1. We see Feyre learn to be herself – she learns what power she has, how she can control it, and how to just be a person, a real live person. For so long she was just surviving, and here she can finally do something other than that.
2. We see Rhys treat Feyre how she was always meant to be treated – like a person deserving of love, affection, and most importantly, choice. He lets her awaken to the world at her own pace, with only a few kicks in the pants. He brings her back to life. We also get to know him – the real him, not the mask that he had to wear Under the Mountain.
3. We see Feyre and Rhys fall in love. It's not all at once, either. At least for Feyre, anyway. She takes her time throughout the book, letting herself feel everything that she's gone through. And once they finally fall together, we see what 'mates' really means. They are perfect for one another, and that's one of my absolute favorite tropes, thank you.
4. We meet the Court of Dreams, get to see Velaris, and fall in love with The Night Court itself. Velaris feels like a real city, and Maas's worldbuilding really gets to stretch its legs in this book.

So very much happens in this book. So many important things happen in this book, plotwise and otherwise. It's a nice chunky volume, and while yes, Maas reuses phrases a lot, at the end of the day the book feels worth it's length. I'll be coming back to this one time and time again, and I'm not ashamed to say it.