I Started Reading Crescent City And Was Warned That It Will Hurt And I Thought How Bad Can It Be(comparing

Feyre and Rhys - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @rebecca.h.art

and the lucien and Jesminda story

ACOTAR Spinoffs I NEED:

-How Rhysand, Cassian, Azriel, & Morrigan Met

-Amren origin story (What is she?)

-Story set in the Day Court (Hellion my BB)

-Origin Story of the Fae Courts forming

okay so i see everyone appreciating percy jackson series . Do you all srslt not see the flaws. They changed everything. I get it anabeth is supposed to be smart but she is still a twelve year old who will get distracted by food and music and that too an adhd person. I am sorry but i dont think you can change it that much maybe they could have just said inspired from the book not an adaptation .The child actors are great but they were too restricted. i could never get the feel of irritation that was between percy and anabeth in starting. All i want to say is they could have done a better job.

P.S. the only extra thing i liked was sally and posideins scene

I just want to make one thing clear its like Loki and Thor their age is 1000+ but in asgardian that is considered like mid twenties and so like that same goes for fae years. Rhysand, rowan , Cassian being hundred of years old doesn't mean they are old and fucking pedophiles they are just as young as Feyre or Nesta or aelin is in human years.

Me each night knowing the only way antis can escape feysand and the inner circle is if they put the books down:

You are on book 5 sweetheart, who is forcing you at this point?

🔥🔥🔥 feysand at the inn

from the acotar series by @sjmaas

art by @merwild

New HC: Helion recognized the Illyrian markings for glory in battle Rhys had painted on Feyre when he starts to bring her to the revels.

“Love the new decoration for your new pet,” Helion laughs to Rhysand, who pulls Feyre closer and gives the Lord of Day a lazy grin.

“Indeed. I think they quite suit her.”

They share a glance that to outsiders looks salacious and wicked, but Helion reads the intent in Rhysand’s eyes. He has seen those markings in the books of his libraries and knows. He knows what a bold statement of defiance they are. He knows that this mortal is now their best chance. Their only chance. He knows why Rhys is keeping her by his side every night, why he’s keeping her out of the darkness of the dungeons as long as he can.

And he begins to hope.

What do you mean when you say her books are not for the lazy reader?

Hey hon, 

I’m going to explain this the best way that I can while I cook some pancakes: in literature in general (in some genres, like fantasy, more than in others) each book will provide you with some dots. Some authors will give you the dots and just that, so it’s up to you to connect them; other will give you the dots and the lines so you get a feel and then start connecting them; and others will give you the dots, the lines and then show you how to connect them. 

A lot of authors are a combination of these dynamics, Sarah J Maas is one of those authors. Her books will give you the dots and sometimes she will give you the lines. But her books do rely on a reader that is willing to put in the effort and make those connections and complete the storyline/engage with the world. That’s why I say you can’t be lazy with her books and expect her to explicitly show you absolutely all. And it’s something that I see in the people who read her books, the complain that she didn’t explicitly had a scene or the characters verbally say something, but she has other ways of showing you that require active engagement. 

This is something that it’s not just with her books, a lot of authors do that. For instance N. K. Jemisin did that with The Broken Earth Trilogy in a much more extreme way, literally only a few dots and a line thrown every now and then –which makes them incredibly engaging–. Brandon Sanderson is the opposite, if you read The Final Empire, he gives you dots and helps you connect them –and god bless him for this because his magic system alone is quite different and not without its set of complications–.

Sure you can read her books and be like “listen I don’t want to put in this effort I’m just here for the surface stuff” and that is perfectly fine, but then you need to be aware that you will not get everything her books have to offer. It’s like reading her books for the romance and then complaining that all you got was sex and romance – not to say that this is shallow because I do think her romances and sex are more than just tension and smutt–. Her books rely on you also putting two and two together and look beyond the hot fae and pay attention. For example she will not tell you that magic has limitations by listing them, but she will show you it has limitations in the fact that magic alone is not enough to perform a c-section. There you have the dots, it is up to you to connect them and understand that there is a difference between magic and knowledge and that magic does not necessarily give you knowledge

Her world building is also very reliant on the character she is focusing. Just think of how with each book in the original trilogy the map got more detailed as Feyre understood more of it. But you are not the character so heading into ACOSF you have a broader scope of this world, than Nesta for instance, because you come into with all that Feyre lived in the world, but still your tools to help you understand the world better are still anchored on what the character knows or discovers. 

So yeah can read the books and be there for what she explicitly tells you and have fun or you can read her books and partake on the story. People don’t give her nearly enough credit for her writing. Like all authors she has room for improvement in how she handles narrative, characters and world building (and I do have a few critics); but still she does not get the credit she deserves for how she crafts her work. 

People also demand perfection from her books that I have not seen demanded of other authors.

Jude(whenever she sees Cardan in wicked king): I am gonna kill him!

also Jude: fuck me!!!!!

I use to never say “if you don’t like acotar than don’t read it” because I don’t like acotar at times but I’m definitely about to start if you say the main character pov is wrong or biased and Sarah did it to frame Feyres pov in a “certain way” just because it doesn’t fit your views. Just say she doesn’t hate feyre and Rhys enough for you and break free from this invisible bondage of the series. The series is going the way she says whether you like it or not. I wish feyre left n.esta to die on more occasions than I can count. Hell, I wish Rhys went and killed her in the book when she hurt feyre. I wish feyre left her family to die. I wish feyre went off on n.esta and reminded her who kept her alive for years. I wish someone would STAB tamlin already and get him out the series.. I wish she wrote the characters and plot better. BUT if the author doesn’t write it, than I’m not getting it. That’s doesn’t mean that I’m going to say the whole shit is wrong because it don’t go the way I think.. nesta pov can be misplaced and not accurate at times when it comes to her views of other people and the world around her but I’m not going to say her every little thought since the first word is wrong….Wtf??!