Nesta Archeron, grieving and angry after the war, is sent to train with Cassian and work in the library beneath the House of Wind, and slowly finds friends, strength and love.
A long, emotional story about recovery and found family, with a slow start and a lot of steam, best for readers who loved the earlier books. Three and a half out of five. Adult content.
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Is A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas worth reading? A spoiler-free review: Nesta's recovery, the found family, what works, what doesn't and my score. Adult book. Assumes you have read the first three Court of Thorns and Roses books.
A Court of Silver Flames ending explained: the Blood Rite, Briallyn and the Crown, Nesta's choice to give back her power, and what it all means. Full spoilers.
Discussion questions for A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas: Nesta, healing, friendship, the mate bond and the ending. Spoilers are kept to the last section. Adult book.
Loved A Court of Silver Flames? Six books to read next: Fourth Wing, Throne of Glass, From Blood and Ash, The Cruel Prince, Six of Crows and Kingdom of the Wicked.
A Court of Silver Flames (2021) is the fifth book in Sarah J. Maas’s Court of Thorns and Roses series, and the story of Nesta Archeron and Cassian. It has four parts, eighty chapters and well over two hundred thousand words.
Below you’ll find a spoiler-free review (it assumes you have read the first three books), the ending explained with full spoilers, book club questions and six books to read next. It is an adult book with explicit scenes and heavy themes.
Nesta Archeron has not been okay since the war. She is angry, grieving, and drinking too much, and she is pushing everyone away. Her sister Feyre and the rest of the Night Court decide that she cannot go on that way.
So Nesta is made to move into the House of Wind, to train each morning with Cassian in the Illyrian mountains, and to work in the library beneath the house in the afternoons. She does not want any of it, and especially not him.
The book has four parts, called Novice, Blade, Valkyrie, and Ataraxia, and it has eighty chapters. It is a big read, at more than two hundred thousand words.
Nesta Archeron has not been okay since the war. She is angry, grieving, and drinking too much, and she is pushing everyone away. Her sister Feyre and the rest of the Night Court decide that she cannot go on that way.
A long, emotional story about recovery and found family, with a slow start and a lot of steam, best for readers who loved the earlier books. Three and a half out of five. Adult content. Read it if: you love slow-burn romance and found family; you enjoy stories about healing after trauma; you have read the first three court of thorns and roses books. Skip it if: you want a fast, plot-driven fantasy; explicit scenes and heavy themes are not for you; you have not read the earlier books yet. Review: A Court of Silver Flames →
Our ending explained covers the final chapters in full, with spoilers. A Court of Silver Flames ending explained: the Blood Rite, Briallyn and the Crown, Nesta's choice to give back her power, and what it all means. Full spoilers. Ending explained: A Court of Silver Flames →
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Cruel Prince by Holly Black, Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo, Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco. Books like it: A Court of Silver Flames →
Yes. It is the fifth book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series and follows events from the first three books, so it contains spoilers for them. A Court of Frost and Starlight is a shorter novella in between.
Yes. It contains explicit sexual content, violence and heavy themes of trauma and grief, and is written for adult readers.
Nesta, Gwyn and Emerie win the Blood Rite, Nesta defeats the villain queen Briallyn, and Nesta then uses the Harp and the Mask to save Feyre during a dangerous birth. The full explanation, with spoilers, is on the ending page.
Eighty chapters, split into four parts: Novice, Blade, Valkyrie and Ataraxia. At well over two hundred thousand words, it is a long book.
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