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    A Court of Wings and Ruin
    A Court of Wings and Ruin
    A Court of Wings and Ruin
    Audiobook25 hours

    A Court of Wings and Ruin

    Written by Sarah J. Maas

    Narrated by Amanda Leigh Cobb

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The epic series from #1 bestselling global phenomenon author Sarah J. Maas continues with a stunning story of love, war, and revenge.

    Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit.

    One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre but for everything—and everyone she holds dear.

    As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place as one of the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers—both magical and political—and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must
    decide whom to trust among the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

    In this thrilling third book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series, the fate of Feyre’s world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 2, 2017
    ISBN9781501952616
    A Court of Wings and Ruin
    Author

    Sarah J. Maas

    Sarah J. Maas is the #1 bestselling author of the Crescent City, Court of Thorns and Roses, and Throne of Glass series. Her books have sold millions of copies and are published in thirty-eight languages. Sarah lives with her family in New York City. sarahjmaas.com facebook.com/theworldofsarahjmaas instagram.com/sarahjmaas

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a captivating and emotional series. The story is filled with action, mystery, and revenge, keeping readers engaged and guessing at every turn. The characters are well-developed and the narration is enjoyable. While some readers found the writing lacking and the romance element repetitive, overall, the series is highly recommended. The ending is spectacular and provides insight into many characters. Despite some minor flaws, this series is a must-read for fans of fantasy, romance, and action genres.

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    • 5/5
      the story was epic. this book kept me on the edge of my sit. i loved it! i want this story to continue. i love rhysand he was awesome. and is prefect for feyre! please make more books with fey and rhys

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      The war scenes are vivid and amazing and the main character is much more tolerable in this book than the other two

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      While there was a lot more... spice... in this one, the story was great. Last half really kept me on the edge of my seat. Tears.... laughing.. more tears... excited to see where it leads.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The narrator and the story were absolutely amazing!!! So sad that the story is over.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It was good, but by 3/4 of the way through, I was kept thinking, "okay, this is a long winded book." Also, a different narrator. I prefer the first narrator more, however, I do like Amanda. She does a great job.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Oh man I absolutely LOVE this series so much, but the narrator change is unbearable for this book. I finally had to put it down and just order the hard copy off Amazon. The first narrator for book 1 and 2 was amazing, but Feyre’s character completely shifted with the new narrator because of the way she puts so much inflection on different words and phrases. The new narrator makes Feyre seem ditzy and dramatic, and not at all like the fearless, driven girl from the first two books. The writing is phenomenal though so it’s worth just buying the paperback!

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    • 5/5
      Such a great story! Absolutely loved all the twists and turns. Can't wait for the next one!
    • 5/5
      Liked averything about this one. It was griping, exiting, well performed by the reader.
    • 5/5
      I am loving this series so far, was a great listen
    • 2/5
      There are only five good things I can say about ACOWAR.

      Five. (Ranting, spoiler review ahead).

      1) The death of the suriel was the most beautiful thing I've read in a while.

      2) The difficulty in which Feyre learns how to use her wings shows that she's not all powerful after all. She has to learn how to use these awkward, new limbs just as the other Illyrians did.

      3) That plot twist with Feyre, Nesta, and Elaine's father was CRAZY!

      4) The loyalty shown between the sisters in the final battle was beautiful.

      5) The thing about Mor's sexuality being such an intrinsic part of her that she's terrified of other people shaming because it's too close to the core of who she is... hits deep for me. That was very good.

      And now for the bad. The writing style:

      Sarah J Mass uses many of the same metaphors and phrases. Over and over and over. It's incredibly lazy writing that she doesn't find new ways to say things. It reads as though she's rushing to get something down on the page, and not taking the time to put artistry into her words.

      "On a phantom wind."
      "Mastering himself/ myself/ herself."
      "He inclined his head."
      "A slash of a smile."
      "My toes curled." Like bruh, are your toes always gonna curl at every damn thing he says? Shit.
      "A muscle flickered in his jaw."
      "He loosed a breath."
      "Panes of his *insert body part here*"
      "This war was like a dance." Wow. How creative. Describing battle like a dance, again. Okay, wait— "death dance," when written like that, is very cool.
      "Rhys traced idle/ lazy circles on my *body part*"

      I can't stand the writing style. Sarah J is literally allergic to the word: 'and.' It's all personal preference at the end of the day, but it's so repetitive. Instead of saying, 'says to me and Rhys,' she'd say, 'says to me, to Rhys.' Instead of saying, 'rallied his troops and warriors,' she'd say, 'rallied his troops, warriors.' As a writer, once I noticed it, I couldn't stop noticing it. There's absolutely NO variety in her writing. It's okay to do that sometimes, but bloody hell, change it up a little.

      Next, the sex scenes:

      I'm usually a fan of smut, and I read romance for the smut alone sometimes, but the ACOTAR series' sex scenes? Uh-uh. They were so cringy that I had to skip them. Not to mention that they're ALWAYS having sex. Every five seconds. Like bloody hell, slow down.
      It got annoying, and I rolled my eyes whenever it happened.

      On top of that, because there's no sexual tension between Feyre and Rhysand anymore, nothing to anticipate, the romance is flat. They never argue (which is unrealistic), and if they do, it's resolved in the next paragraph. There's no drama between them. They just go about their lives and fuck, like regular couples. Which I know is what couples in real life do, but it makes for a boring story.

      In chapter 48, it's revealed that Rhys and Feyre have NEVER CUDDLED BEFORE, and that the only intimacy she's ever felt with him has been sex. Go figure.

      The bisexuality representation:

      Do I need to say more about the bisexuality rep? There are many reviewers who have already tackled this issue. But I'm a part of LGBT, and I'm insulted by this. What the actual bloody hellish fuck. Apparently she sleeps with men because it hides the fact that she prefers women. DARLING! THAT IS NOT WHAT PEOPLE DO! Sure, people might pretend to date, but to fuck? The fact that this bisexuality representation is rooted in sex and not emotion at all is insulting, and perpetuates the idea that bisexual people only like both genders because they're greedy for sex, and not because they genuinely love someone of the same gender. Like... for fuck's sake.

      It would have been a fine bisexuality rep if it wasn't for that. It reads like Mor has always been straight, and then Sarah J changed her mind last minute to shut up the activists— which has been said before by another reviewer, but I'll reiterate their statement, because it's so true.

      Instead of telling Azriel that she's bisexual ("for fear of her family finding out") she strings him along for centuries— when I know that Azriel wouldn't have told a soul. She clearly doesn't trust him enough, though, since it's such an intrinsic part of her, I can understand her fear of being vulnerable about it. Except, she's vulnerable with someone she's only known for a year (Feyre), so technically she's showing that she trusts Feyre more than someone she's known for 500 years (Azriel) so that logic of fearing vulnerability doesn't stand.

      This book is not feminist AT ALL:

      "If Rhysand was night triumphant, I was the star that only glowed thanks to his darkness, the light only visible because of him." Fucking hell. And this is supposed to be romantic? Feyre can't shine on her own?

      I read another review saying that Prythian is a man's world where women don't have much power, and it's incredibly true. There's so much senseless violence in this against women. Nearly every woman in the damn novel has fallen victim to a brute, and Sarah J, I've got to say: THERE ARE WAYS TO SHOW THAT MEN ARE BAD OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT THEY'RE WIFE BEATERS.

      I suppose this is done so that Rhysand seems all the better for being a 'feminist,' even though the way he treats Feyre is the bare minimum.

      During the meeting with all the high lords especially, the amount of slut shaming was astronomical. Every woman there, who one man or another had a grudge against, was called a slut and shamed for liking sex, and Tamlin used sexual details about Feyre to shame her in front of the other high lords. As if women liking sex is a terrible, shameful thing (which it's not!! And it shouldn't be!!), or men liking sex for that matter (since Rhysand is called "Amarantha's whore" constantly).

      Usually, I'd rage about the clear double standards about sex when it comes to men and women, but because of Rhysand, it becomes a bit more complicated. Still, women are shamed a lot more than men are in this novel. One man doesn't sway the scales against near EVERY WOMAN in this book that was slut-shamed. Not to mention the possessiveness and entitlement of men's attitudes towards their female mates. This is disgusting! I know that it's a fantasy world, but the casualness of some of these misogynistic remarks are awful. And people call this book feminist? Ha!

      The whole "mate" thing is grotesque. You can tell that Sarah J Mass likes the whole alpha male, werewolf bullshit, because this reads just like it. Truly abhorrent.

      Although,
      "But we are mates?"
      "I am yours and you are mine. We do not let each other do things, as if we dicate the movements of each other."

      It's things like this that make me feel as though Feyre and Rhysand have a healthy relationship, and I think they do.

      Other complaints:

      Rhysand is too perfect, to the point where he doesn't seem like a real person. There's absolutely no character development. Only Feyre has had any character development over this trilogy, and I like her development, although she's so much of an idiot sometimes that it's frustrating. However, I do absolutely LOVEEEE Feyre's scheming at the beginning of the book. It shows how far she's come, and how much she's grown.

      Whenever Feyre does something wrong, Rhysand coddles her by saying she didn't. For example, she left in the middle of a battle without letting anyone know where she was going, and made them worry, and yet, apparently that wasn't selfish and Feyre didn't do anything wrong. Rhysand never asks her for an apology because she's so incredibly perfect and mistakes are never seen as mistakes. It's like Sarah J doesn't want her perfect couple to fight, so does everything in her power to negate that. The result is an absolute lack of consequences for any of their actions, and it is incredibly unsatisfying. It reads like a young adult book that doesn't really follow through with any of the horrible things it promises to the readers because it's YA and it can't because it's restricted by the genre. This book has no fucking backbone in that regard, and it pisses me off.

      Then, when Mor confronts her about leaving, she doesn't accept that she was selfish, and instead gets mad at Mor for pointing out her bullshit! Are those narc qualities I can smell? Bloody apologise, Feyre. It's not hard.

      Edit: she apologised! Halle-fucking-lujah.

      This book could have been cut in half. Way too many useless scenes. It needs another edit. However, despite its length, the pacing wasn't bad. It didn't drag on, and provided plenty of excitement throughout the chapters.

      "She shrugged with a shoulder." Lollllll.

      In a battle with both a navy and an air force, "sailing through the air," and "flying over the waves" were used in the text. Like— maybe don't use those metaphors in the context of this battle.

      The ending was so cringy, I can't even! During the entire novel, Amren was working on 'the book' so that she could go home, and when she did, I thought, 'thats beautiful,' but then Sarah brought her back— because she couldn't bear the thought of any kind of sad ending. It's sickly sweet, it's cheesy, it's disappointing. Again, as I said— no backbone. It would have been beautiful to see Amren get what she wanted, and even though when she decided to come back it was technically her decision, to change her mind so easily after years and years of pining to go home seemed cheap. Just a way for everyone to get the sickly sweet, happy ending, with no real consequences. Oh my god, this book is such bullshit. This is supposed to be new adult, and yet it behaves like YA. Trash!

      As for the audiobook narrator, she was bad at some points, and was so visceral with the emotions in her voice at others.

      In conclusion:
      Only the start of this book was good. Y'all lied to me. I can't completely forgo tiktok book recommendations though, because I found Fourth Wing on it, and that's one of my favourite series.
    • 5/5
      This book gave me all the feels and at times kept me on the edge of my seat
    • 4/5
      loved it but someone important probably should've died/left permanently yknow the ending felt a little cheap
    • 4/5
      Good ending. War dragged on for sooo long. The book could have been half the chapters lol but looking forward to the next one.
    • 5/5
      Did not like the new narrator to the point that it took me months to get through the snarky and vindictive beginning portion of the book. Once I got past the whiny voice, then I blew through the book! The last half of this book was stellar!
    • 4/5
      It's good, but the ending was a little too drawn out for my tastes. It seemed like it had about 5 more twists and surprise endings than I expected (or wanted).
    • 5/5
      i loved it even though it was silly - too silly at times.
    • 2/5
      Loved book 1. Took a little longer to enjoy book 2. I can’t get past the stupid, stupid, stupid wall over this 3rd book. God that’s all they talk about and some dirty comments between Fayra and Rhysand. It was so repetitive that I had to DNF it. Even after jumping a couple of chapters ahead to see if something exciting was going to happen. There is so much SA regarding every person Rhysand has saved. Makes me mad. How many times is that topic going to be brought up? At how horrible those “women” were treated. This book honestly makes me mad. Can’t get over how repetitive and boring it has been. The more I think about it the more I hate it.
    • 2/5
      Das Buch ist gut gelesen aber der Ablauf der Schlacht und einige der Entscheidungen fand ich etwas zu kitschig und Strategielos. Außerdem mag ich diese ewigen Superdramen mit Charakter ist Tod und Huch Überraschung doch wieder am Leben mit hokus pokus nicht. Bis dahin waren die Bücher toll aber dieses war nicht so toll. Schade
    • 5/5
      A beautifully written story.
      I loved the pace, the twists and turns.
      I was enthralled, living as they did…

      An excellentexperience
    • 5/5
      Best book Fantasy Book series I have read/listened to since Harry Potter which is saying something because Harry Potter is my favorite book series ever… I’m left in complete awe of how the characters become rounded and if the author wants you to like someone you do and if she doesn’t then you don’t.
    • 4/5
      So good not my favorite but still worth every second.
    • 2/5
      My least favorite ACOTAR book, it was too cheesy for me
    • 5/5
      Fabulous end to the series!! At first, the new narrator was jarring (I especially missed how the first one did Rhysand’s sultry voice) but it’s not too bad after a while I got used to the change and just focused on the story. I binged this ACOTAR series, listening to all 3 books back to back and despite the narration change for me each story kept getting better and better. This is some of the best fantasy, romance and action writing I have ever read. The first book in the series was a bit slow, it had more of an old school fairy tale vibe as it was a loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast. The second and third books were stellar. I fell in love with Rhys and his inner circle and was quite happy to see characters from book one like Lucien, Nesta and Elain play a role in this story. The final battles were epic. It was amazing the character growth that Feyre went through over the series. I enjoyed most of the new characters and juicy drama between the Fae courts. For me each book in this series was slightly better than the last. A really stellar epic fantasy series.
    • 5/5
      I just couldn’t stop! I love this book. This series!
    • 3/5
      Elements of it were good. I did find the overuse of the work 'smirk' annoying. It made the heroes of the story seem smug and petty. And it was used a lot!
      And I also found it annoying that the romance element always began with the couple hating each other. I don't think this is a good message to send to young people. I'm presuming the book is aimed at young adults about age 15 as that is how it read.
      But elements were good and I listened to most of it.
    • 5/5
      I can't believe how much I've enjoyed this series even after being so against it at the beginning. I devoured this book!
    • 5/5
      This was my favorite book of the series so far. You get so much more insight to so many characters. I love this
    • 5/5
      I loved it and can’t wait to listen to the next book in the series!
    • 3/5
      The narration of this book was really good, I just feel like the writing is lacking for me.
    • 5/5
      The story, the tension, the twists… I can only say that Sarah is a master of storytelling. In some parts my heart stoped and couldn’t put it down.