Feyre is free of Amarantha but not of the nightmares, and a bargain with the High Lord of the Night Court pulls her out of a gilded cage and into a city of stars, a found family and a coming war.
A long, emotional, very explicit sequel that finds the heart of the series: honest about trauma, rich in found family, with a slow burn that pays off. It repeats itself and leans on familiar tropes. Four and a half out of five. Adult content, and you must read book one first.
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Is A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas worth reading? A spoiler-free review of ACOTAR book two: Feyre's recovery, Rhysand, the Inner Circle, an honest spice level, content notes and my score. Assumes you have read book one.
A Court of Mist and Fury ending explained, with full spoilers: the mate reveal, the fall of Velaris, the Cauldron, Elain and Nesta, the bargain that breaks and the final twist.
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A Court of Mist and Fury (2016) is the second book in Sarah J. Maas’s Court of Thorns and Roses series. Three months after Under the Mountain, Feyre is an immortal faerie engaged to Tamlin, but she is not okay, and her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court, is about to change her life. It has sixty nine chapters in three parts and roughly one hundred and eighty thousand words, and it won the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for young adult fantasy.
Content note: this is an adult book with frequent, explicit sex scenes, graphic violence, torture and its aftermath, panic attacks, references to sexual abuse, forced marriage and child abuse in the characters’ pasts, a controlling relationship, and strong language. It assumes you have read book one.
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Three months have passed since the end of book one, and the Winter Solstice has just gone by, with feasting and presents that Feyre hated every minute of. She is human no longer. She is an immortal High Fae, she is engaged to Tamlin, and the wedding is two weeks away.
On paper she has everything. In practice she is not okay. She wakes up sick from nightmares, she cannot paint, and she cannot stand being shut inside a room.
Meanwhile there is the bargain she made with Rhysand, the High Lord of the Night Court. It still binds her, and one week every month belongs to him. When the wedding day finally comes, it does not go the way anyone planned.
Three months have passed since the end of book one, and the Winter Solstice has just gone by, with feasting and presents that Feyre hated every minute of. She is human no longer. She is an immortal High Fae, she is engaged to Tamlin, and the wedding is two weeks away.
A long, emotional, very explicit sequel that finds the heart of the series: honest about trauma, rich in found family, with a slow burn that pays off. It repeats itself and leans on familiar tropes. Four and a half out of five. Adult content, and you must read book one first. Read it if: you finished a court of thorns and roses and want the better book; you love slow burn romance and found family; you like heroines who heal on the page; you can handle explicit scenes and dark themes. Skip it if: you need a tight, fast plot; explicit sex scenes are a deal breaker; you have not read the first book; controlling relationships or abuse backstories are hard lines for you. Review: A Court of Mist and Fury →
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Yes. A Court of Mist and Fury is book two and picks up three months after the end of A Court of Thorns and Roses, so the first book's events, characters and bargain all matter.
Very. The book has frequent, graphic sex scenes in direct language, plus long scenes of sexual tension. It is written for adult readers; this is the reviewer's assessment, not an official rating.
It has sixty nine chapters in three parts and roughly one hundred and eighty thousand words, much longer than the first book.
Yes. It won the Goodreads Choice Award for young adult fantasy in 2016, which shows how it was first shelved. Today it is usually read as adult romantasy.
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