Feelings After Finishing A Court of Silver Flames

1. I fall under the unpopular opinion.
   I don’t like Nesta. I think people are allowing her a little too much grace because of trauma. Okay, I can see that some of her actions are trauma responses, but despite the fact that she recognizes this also, she only apologizes twice in the entire book. For being a “strong character,” Nesta didn’t live up to that for me. I struggled to get through this book because Nesta acted like she was the only one who had trauma and lashed out against everyone and anyone.
   
2. Cassian deserves better.
   I said what I said. Nesta treats him like dirt, and yet, here he is wanting his mate because of the whole chemical imbalance that causes. I also feel like SJM kind of left Cassian’s development behind in favor of his romance with Nesta that wasn’t really even a romance. Somewhere we lost his strong, badass warrior self and even his flirty comments kind of fell flat for me. I wish we saw more of his role as general since that was supposed to be a huge part of his life and less of him pandering to Nesta’s every whim. I honestly would have rather seen Cassian end with Nesta if they weren’t mates. Wholly because that would mean that he chose her, and it would show that above all of her faults and even how she treated him, he saw that she was a good person and wanted to foster that.
   
3. Nesta’s friends
   Great, I’m glad that Nesta has friends. I actually really like Gwyn and Emerie, but I also don’t think they would really just allow Nesta to be as big of a bitch to them as she was throughout this book. I need more from them though. Sleepover? Cool, but give me some development from them. I liked their determination and drive during the Illyrian mountain killing spree though!
   
4. Eris
   I am here for him. Give me more about what he is doing and what his motives are. What are his plans? I need mas. What was going through his head during the Mor situation. I need more about the Autumn Court in general. Which brings me to Lucien. This poor guy. He wants to impress and woo Elain so badly but she literally just stomps on his heart.
   
5. Third person.
   I didn’t like the switch from first person to third. It made getting into this book very difficult. I really didn’t like that this switch came after three books of first person.
   

It was a 3/5 for me to be quite honest, I didn’t feel the romance between Nesta and Cassian. Their steamy scenes weren’t all that steamy in my eyes. Like Chapter 55 and Chill was not found in this book. Sorry not sorry. I love Az, I love Lucien, I love Feysand, I love Cassian, I love Mor. I did not love Amren’s changes, I did not love Nesta, I did not love Elain. I wanted more of Eris, I wanted more of Emerie, I wanted more of Gwyn, I even wanted more of Bryaxis. So. It’s a 3 out of 5 for me when the rest of these books have all been 5s.

See y’all after the next chapter,

Cayla