A Court of Wings and Ruin
Ratings1,087
Average rating4.2
I DNF'd this book 48% after MONTHS of this cresting the biggest reading slump of my life. I have finally decided to put it to rest. I really enjoyed what I was reading until suddenly I just didn't care anymore which saddens me so much. This was definitely a me problem and not an ACOWAR problem so will still recommend this book either way. Sry queen
I give up and and decided I will not read another sequel of this series. I thought I could handle the third book but Feyre just makes me want to punch her pretty little face so bad, it will break all Prythian. I hate it and I should not have picked up this book. The word mate was used for 500 times in this book, and I couldn't take it anymore.
My favourite book of the entire series! It’s just so good! Every bit is just *chefs kiss*
Thoroughly enjoyed seeing the sisters come into the own and getting closure on a lot of things. The surprise alliances were exciting and the battles are nothing short of cinematic. Like the previous books, the character-building takes priority in Wings and Ruin while still being a fun and easy read. The spice is tastefully sprinkled in, never gratuitous and always when it makes sense. I'd recommend this series to anyone who enjoys fantasy/sword-and-sorcery.
Honestly debating three stars for this Because the ending was so goddamn trite.
My least favorite in the series so far. It was still a decent read, but it could have been 200-300 pages. 700 pages was entirely too long and drawn out, I felt like barely anything happened.
Spoilers start here so stop reading if you don't want to be spoiled!
I feel like Tamlin deserves forgiveness and happiness now. I'm starting to become sympathetic to him now because he has been betrayed by all the people closest to him at this point. He's saved Feyre's life AND Rhys's now. It's enough. He needs to work through his anger, go to therapy, and then he deserves a real mate and better friends tbh. I mean, I personally don't want to read details about it, but I'd like just a couple sentences saying he has a mate and is happy. That's all. Outside of that, I'm so anxious to read more about Cassian and Nesta.
Best of the 3. This series is perfection <3
Although I'm pretty sick of the word “mate.”
4.00/10.00
This one was bad.
This one is a good read through most of the book. But I hated the ending. Too much chaos. The last minute arrival of allies who never had any character development other than being mentioned in the books was very unpalatable. Rhys death scene was mostly pointless. Amren's return was anti-climatic. The king's death was a let down... The highlights are Tamlin's character development, the war strategy with the death gods, Mor's coming out and Ianthe storyline.. Bottomline the ending was a let down.
It was not that worthy.. Honestly the second book was better, the last 30 pages of this book were fine, but the rest idk just didn't click with me.
I felt such rage for some characters that I was probably not supposed too
3.5 Stars. The book was good in many ways and I would say it had my attention early on. Towards the middle my interest and drive to keep reading subsided. I put the book down for a very long time and had no desire to pick it back up. But now that I am out of a reading slump, I decided to finish this book so that I can finish the series. The last quarter of the book picks up again and there is a lot of action. This held my attention and helped me finish it in a short amount of time. I still feel like book 2 was amazing and hard to live up to. I am curious what else is in store for the next books.
The last 100 pages?? OOF AMAZING
Felt like I was reading three different books because there were 3 different plot lines and I loved it. It wasn't one problem dragging for forever — really well paced
Made it about 30% before I lost interest. Maybe I'll pick it up again, but I'm moving on for now.
I'm giving this 3.5! I really want to give it 4 but something about it just didn't quite excite me like the first two did but it was still really, really enjoyable.
I often felt certain characters were totally forgotten about in their own quests/uses until literally right before they reappeared which maybe is meant to be like a “omg forgot about them let's gooo” kind of moment but I never stopped thinking about anyone for a second. I won't give spoilers here either but just felt maybe things were just too... safe. Not that I want to be GRRM traumatised but ya know.
3/5 books down and I'm so excited to see where this goes, I found SJM through the first Crescent City novel and while reading this book I was constantly just wanting to finish so I could see what happens in the next CC, which made me realise that maybe I was more excited for the series than this one. Only time will tell when I've finished them all!
Tamlin is bad guy, but wait he's good, oh no he's bad. Oh yay ok finally he's good.
Rhys will literally sacrifice himself, you guys. But don't worry he can come back because no one important ever dies. Instead they all become mated to each other.
Feyre is so much stronger than she realizes but she's also super easily tricked. And even though they're all a family now, everyone constantly keeps things hidden from each other or just straight up lies to each other. It's not a mating gift to hide two secret weapons that could literally alter their battle plan, that's just plain stupid and probably should've been brought up to the generals like right away.
These goobers really should've lost this war, but They are the good guys, so everything turned out OK ☺️
Listen, I get why these books are popular, they are quick reads, fast paced, some might say they're sexy (I prefer the work goofy) and they can be fun but they're just not well written.
The whole first part of the book when she's in the spring court should have been exciting and thrilling. But instead of a spying plot, we get the internal dialogue of how much she hates everyone. Instead of her sisters, being sad about losing the lives they knew and embracing their new lives and learning about their powers, they spend the entire time moping around and being assholes to everyone who's trying to help them.
All the parts of this book that should've been exciting and thrilling just fell flat and then, when you finally get to the exciting war part, it just feels like...
SURPISE THAT ARMY SHOWED UP AT THE PERFECT TIME
AND THAT ARMY SHOWED UP AT THE PERFECT TIME TOO
OH AND THEM
AND OUR SECRET WEAPON
ALSO WE HAVE A SECRET WEAPON THAT CAN WIN THE WAR BUT WE DIDNT BRING IT UP UNTIL A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DIED
OH NO WE WON THE WAR BUT NOW THE WORLD IS OVER
OH NO RHYS SACRIFICED HIMSELF TO LITERALLY SAVE THE WORLD
oh no he's ok. And everyone is safe. It's all good