A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas
(Format used for this read: Audiobook)
Hiiiiiiii there fellow bookworms!
I know it’s been a minute since I reviewed a book for yall…but life has been flipped upside down and straight up CRAYCRAY for the past little bit over here.
We currently have participated in a cross country move from the rural Midwest state of Missouri to the bright, sunny and warm state of FLORIDA ✨
I’m sooooo happy to be here….but the process and logistics and reality of moving and setting up a new house and shit is getting to me.
Yall….so far it’s been A LOT.
Moving suuuuuccckkkkkks.
We have moved 8 times across the USA in the past 18 years together and I forget EVERY DAMN TIME how much friggin work and TIME it takes to get a house together and settled.
Now that military life is done for us FOREVER AND EVER AMEN, I am in hopes that we won’t go thru this journey anytime AT ALL in the next decade or so.
I’m literally taking a break from unpacking my umpteenth box this week to sit down and write two book reviews before I forget what I listened to 🤣 And also…drink a very large glass of wine…that will probably be refilled at least once.
Unpacking is a bitch but what makes it a little more do-able is being able to immerse myself in a good story.
Triple hooray for audiobooks!
They are the majority of my reading lately.
Because by the time I crawl into bed at night to curl up with the latest Outlander book I’m reading in print form, I get about 3 pages in and fall asleep with utter exhaustion. (It may be next year before I get to a review on THAT one😁so if you’re curious to know my thoughts on it, don’t hold your breath while waiting)
Yall know already that I am LOOOOVING this series…and I swear to you, that once it hooks you in…you are legit DONE FOR. You’re in it til the END a bagillion percent.
Here is what Book 3 was about:
“Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s maneuverings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit―and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.
As war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords―and hunt for allies in unexpected places.
In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth will be painted red as mighty armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy them all.”
This third book I thought had a third different narrator…I was under the impression that so far all the books had been read by three different people.. Because they all have sounded TOTES DIFFERENT.
But guess what? I was WRONG. (I know…be shocked. It doesn’t happen often 🤣)
The first two had the same narrator and I was SHOOKETH to realize that! Interesting to me that I heard the same person’s voice COMPLETELY differently.
Anyway, this narrator was not bad per se, but it did take me quite a few chapters to get used to listening to her instead.
No biggie…just a thing to be aware of if you’re an audiobook person like me.
This story’s point of view alternates from Feyre and Rhys at the very beginning which makes it SUPER interesting to hear from both of their brains.
But then….
You just hear Feyre’s POV for the majority of the book. And I kinda had a hard time focusing on her 😬
At the verrrrrrry end of the book you hear from Rhys again and I SO wish the back and forth would have continued the whole book…or even from the other character’s POV as well, not just Feyre and Rhys. I think hearing from her two sister’s brains would have added all kinds of interesting layers to the story.
I know that some of yall just wanna know if the raciness continues in this book as hot and heavy as it did the other two…. and I will say yes, it does…BUT it takes awhile for it to get going. You are gonna have to wait til Chapter 14 for the action to realllllllllyyyyyy happen 🤣
But when it does…it DOES. So just HANG IN THERE if that is what you dig about this series LOL
This book mostly focuses on the upcoming and inevitable war that the power hungry King of Hybern is planning to inflict.
I will tell yall though…when that physical love action starts, okkkkaaaayyyyyyyyy…it is the steamiest YET. My friend told me it progresses as the books do, and she was NOT wrong!
Some of it was just a bit too Harlequin-like for me though for reals….a bunch of moments had me laughing instead of sweating. Hearing “he feasted on me” MULTIPLE times thru the chapters was just kinda ridiculous for me…but if that is your thing, you go on and ENJOY, my friends. One person’s “yuck” is another person’s “yum”, so you go ahead and relish in those parts if that is what gets your engine revving.
And listen…the whole “mate” wording is STILL getting under my skin…and it is said CONSTANTLY in this book. I can not stop having it irriate me.
But….
those things are just two little pieces of this book… and I still LOOOOOOOOVE these characters and the whole encompassing story this series is rolling with! (and not ALL the steamy parts are silly…some are quite fantastic!)
I told yall…once you’re in…you’re IN.
It was interesting to hear how the author describes all the fairy and warrior training that multiple characters go thru….and it totally had me imagining what I would think the COOLEST part about being a fairy would be.
OBVIOUSLY, it would be the WINGS.
I wouldn’t care too much for mind reading or mind control…that would just stress out my high anxiety self to unfathomable levels. Knowing what everyone is thinking??? Eeeeeekkkkk…no thank YOU.
And immortality sounds pretty damn horrible too. I never have understood the allure of it. The heartbreak you’d experience, the atrocities you’d witness, the frustration you’d go thru. Thank you next to that too.
But being able to FLY with my own body parts??? Yes, please! How fun would that be? AND if the wings had those extra nerve endings that the High Fae possess in theirs….I can’t say I’d be sad about that little fun addition either 😄
Another thing I appreciate is the social commentary the author alludes to in this series. Issues such as misguided prejudices, misunderstood stereotypes and unequal societal treatment are all addressed and displayed throughout the storylines.
There are BIIIG events and BIIIG changes that happen in this book so GET READY…so much I wanna comment on but I can NOT ruin it for yall.
Just be prepared for non stop action in this one…and not just between the sheets 😆