Book Review: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas [QUITE LONG]

Source: PhantomRin9

My friend through many dangers. My lover who had healed my broken and weary soul. My mate who had waited for me against all hopes, despite all odds.

Title: A Court of Mist and Fury

Author: Sarah J. Maas
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses #2
Published by: Bloomsbury USA Childrens on May 3th 2016
Genre: New Adult Fantasy
Setting: Prythian mostly and mortal land
Format: Hardcover, 626 pages
Purchase: Amazon | B&N
My Rating: 100 Roses (joke, full 5 Roses)

Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people.
Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms—and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world cleaved in two.

I cannot even fathom a review as great as this book had been!! I'm speechless and excited and giddy all at once. I feel like my gush of words won't be enough to portray that this book is now on my NUMBER ONE!

This book is nothing short of spectacular. I loved how it kept me glued to it and if I could devour it for the whole 48 hours (which is the estimated reading time based on moonreader but I probably read it for less than that, collectively) without sleeping, I would have, but even a high lord needed sleep so how could I even fight it, right? So anyway,  this book kept me on the edge of my seat. Every turn of page is something new to dwell on, every turn of events surprising and engaging, every bickering and flirting would have you excited whether they would end up kissing or you knowwww but you'll end up really frustrated but giddy at the same time because, duh?? Rhysand just can't help but sweep you off your feet every single time. Just, everything fits perfectly right the way the untold stories were unraveled. I would practically jump inside the book so I could will myself to read faster and know what else will happen,but I'm just a mere hooman void of maybe something that I could wield to make me read faster. I am just a mere hooman waiting to be sent down that effing cauldron to have some of that gift if it even existed.

"Did you enjoy the sight of me kneeling before you?"

WTF Rhysand! Stop telling those things! You're making it hard for me not to fall for you! HAHAHA, I tell you, the sexual tension in this book was higher than my roof! For the whole part of it you just want to see even just a kiss from Rhysand and Feyre but of course, you'll always be left hanging.

Just a glimpse of what I thought about Rhys to get you excited and curious about who he really is.

In his darkness floats his dreams and his family's dreams. And in darkness you might find all the bad and the gruesome but the stars twinkle in the dark and it's where all his hopes and good intentions lie, no matter how bad the price he might pay for the dark front he lets everyone see. No matter if he gets written in history as the worst villain, he will pay the price for what he loves most and he will fight no matter what.

YOU ALL NEED TO READ THIS SERIES BEFORE CONTINUING. SPOILERS AHEAD!

I delved into this book with little hints of knowledge here and there and I refused to believe even for one second that I would shift to Rhysand! Oh hell was I wrong. At first I was really really frustrated because I felt like everything that I loved Tamlin for in the first book was slowly being shred off him. I even felt like Sarah is betraying him by making him look like the villain in Feyre's eyes and I hated that and boy was I wrooong. You see, Rhysand, there could only be one effing Rhysand for Feyre and I have no room for Tamlin ok? I was soo wrong for thinking even for just one second that I could stay in Feylin's ship forever. Now I hated Tamlin's guts and I'm so excited to read the next book and see how everything goes.

I'm still contemplating whether Tamlin really loves Fey or he just wants her as prized as she is. I still can't comprehend that. He became a villain of Fey but is he really? Is he winning Fey back and selling her off in the process part of some greater plan of his? Does he really have a greedy heart? Typing this though, I realized and remembered that he became a part of the ruthless king's plans in the process of getting Fey back, and that made him the worst and I don't think it's love. He is selfish and thinks only of himself. He never thought of Feyre being first on his top priority not like Rhys did. Rhys' every decision always revolves around keeping Fey happy and content and safe without putting shackles on her and letting her choose on her own free will and not letting anyone, even him, to make her decisions for her.

I haven't seen much of Lucien in this book but I trust him. Really trust that he's not half the man Tamlin is, which is a selfish and coward shell of a beast he truly is. I know deep down within me that Lucien is an ally of Fey now that he'd become her sister's mate. That would seem like I'd be seeing more of my favorite Lucien on the third book and I am so glad about that.

"You do. But you need to start mastering them. To learn what you inherited from us.”

At the time it was revealed that Fey might have the seven high lords' powers and she could wield it to save Prythian I felt like she's become the avatar, the master of all seven courts of Prythian, and she will SAVE THE WORLD!!! Now you have my full attention Feyre.

As the book progressed, we saw how Feyre evolved. We all knew that she is strong-willed and badass even from the first book but we saw how she was transformed from the lifeless puppet Tamlin wants her to be, to the woman who holds her own fate in her hands with Rhys by her side. She almost always become a beast herself just so she can save people she love, and with her new family, she's not letting anyone or anything get in her way of saving what she loves most.

I loved that we saw more of Rhysand and know more of the back stories behind each characters, new and old. We saw more of Rhysand's side on the root of the rivalry between him and Tamlin; Miryam, Prince Drakon, and Jurian's story; Rhysand's full story during ACOTAR; and we finally met the ruthless King of Hybern and it was not pretty. Everything went ugly the moment they stepped on the King's castle.

So moving forward, during the revelations of Rhys on some parts of the story, I realized I'm looking at Damon and Stefan all over again (Rhys being Damon and Tamlin being Stefan)! That time when Damon actually revealed that he found and I guess loved? Elena first and he just wiped that memory away and they're the one really meant for each other was just... shitt. ok? I am emotional people! My Rhys, oh my Rhysand you make my heart ache with your selflessness. 

Then there's this Ianthe bitch, I knew from the moment she emerged from the book that she is not just a priestess. I know I'm always weary of new characters no matter how good or bad they might seem, I'll always have doubts, and of course, I am right about this bitch (I'm wrong about Lucien though). I can see through you Ianthe!! You will die soon enough!!

Now let's move forward to Feyre's new found family. My Illyrian warriors, Azriel and Cassian and Mor and Amren. I love these people. Shit shit if Elain and Lucien were mates, could it be that Cassian and Nesta??!! Holy shit! this series just keeps getting better. 

Let's get to the good and heart stopping parts.

I knew!! I knew from the looks of those wretched queens that they would bring Hybern right to Velaris' doorstep! I almost cried thinking that Velaris would be wiped out of the map. Thankfully, our heroine makes her own choices and she's not some fragile coward who is about to walk and lock herself in a safe place and cower while her newfound family and people fight to death for her. She is powerful if she willed it and she will stand alongside her warrior friends while doing so. I love it. I love how happy their little family had become for a short time of their reunion even though everyone knows that that would be short-lived.

Next, I did not know why they haven't thought even for one second that it could be a trap. Why was the plan and execution easy for something so powerful? Even I suspected that someone could be waiting for them you know? Maybe kill them right then and there, though that didn't happen, all the worst things did and it made the story even more interesting.

What happens as last pages became thin were worse then worst then more than effing WORST. But there were the good part, the that's-my-Feysand-right-there kind of parts.

So first, Feyre stoopid-not-hooman-but-a-powerful-fae has succumbed to the alluring sound of the book of something something, and so all the efforts were failed only to find out that it was a suicide mission after all. The king knew and Jurian was there and they were nullified. No powers, no mental conversations between Feyre and Rhysand, no, nothing. THEY FAILED! And now, they were trapped in the wretched castle for eff's sake. huhu. That's not the worst part, though. The fucking worst part was TAMLIN! Tamlin, moothee effin Tamlin!!!! He bargained with the king in exchange for Feyre!!! The worst part of the end of the bargain was that he would give the king permission to use the spring court in order to bring the walls down and bring destruction to the mortal lands. EFF YOU TAMLIN YOU SELFISH BASTARD!!!!!!! That's not love Tamlin! That's obsession! That's possession!!! Ugh, now I hate Tamlin to the core. He'll get what's coming to him. I really hate him. Then there's the ever loyal Lucien by his side as always, but the good thing is, I think something has stirred within him, because somehow, he needs to protect what's his even from his most loyal friend and high lord. I am so looking forward to that.

Wait, there's more, the worst than the worst part! This Ianthe bitch brought out Feyre's two sisters and they became lab rats to the king's experiments!!! WTF is that?! The king will make an example to Feyre's sisters to show the wretched queens of the mortal lands that it is possible to give them immortal life as a fae. I can't believe it. Nesta lived her whole life hating faeries, and now she became one, and she became a dark-with-unknown-power kind of fae.

Oh wait, I forgot that there was more than the worst than the worst part. Aside from Feyre in exchange for camping at the spring court, Tamlin also asked the king to remove the bargain tattoo from Feyre. I was so afraid at that point but I believed that their relationship is deeper than that tattoo and I believed in FEYSAND.

So lastly, I'll get to the good part, Feyre fooled everyone. OR DID SHE?? I don't believe even for a second that the king and Tamlin would be fools. Can the mating bond be forced on someone?? Well, they kind'a believed the show that Feyre put on in order to save her Illyrian family and her biological family. So now, Feyre is back at the spring court with her "beloved" Tamlin. Tamlin is just blinded and a fool you know? Lucien senses something fishy with Feyre and he feels something is not right and that's for the third book I think. Ok ok let's get to the best part!! FEYSAND GOT MARRIED!!!

We saw on Rhysand's POV what happened after they went home to Velaris. Amren was like "YOU NEED TO GET YOUR MATE BACK! YOU NEED TO GET FEYRE'S ASS BACK HERE YOU BLOODY FOOL!!" But no! No people!! Rhysand is calm!! So they had to have some sort of plan B if all else fails AND THEY DO HAVE ONE!! The HIGH LADY OF THE NIGHT COURT is in the spring court! YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN??!!! THE HIGH EFFIN' LADY! So what does that mean y'all??! That means that Fey and Rhys got married! The eloped in hooman's term. But whatever! They strengthened the bond that is already living inside of them by going to a priestess and marry one another. Rhysand did not just declared her as his mate, not a consort, but Feyre is to become his equal, she has to become the HIGH LADY of the Night Court,  and that's the best thing that could have happened on this book. It doesn't compare to the freedom that Rhys has given her, because he respected and believed in her so much that he made her the HIGH LADY and his equal at the night court! I feel so happy and teary-eyed right now. I love it. I love it. I love every single page of this book. I LOVE IT!