Disclaimer: I bought this book from a second-hand store. All opinions are my own. 

 

Book: A Court of Wings and Ruin 

 

Author: Sarah J. Maas 

 

Book Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses Book 3 

 

Rating: 4/5 

 

Spice Rating: 2/5 

 

Diversity: Disabled side characters, Queer side characters, Bi/Lesbian character 

 

Recommended For...: Adult Readers, Romantasy, Fantasy, Fae, High Fantasy 

 

Publication Date: May 2, 2017 

 

Genre: Romantasy 

 

Age Relevance: 18+ (Language, Sexual Content, Violence, Blood Gore, War, Child Death, Domestic Violence, Slavery, Homophobia) 

 

Explanation of Above: There is some strong language in this book. There are some sex scenes in the book. The book revolves around a war, so there is violence and blood gore. Child death is shown in various places. Domestic violence is shown and mentioned. There are mentions of slavery. There are some scenes of homophobia and mentions of it. 

 

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing 

 

Pages: 703 

 

Synopsis: Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear. 

 

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places. 

 

Review: You might think I'm a little crazy but it took me this long to read this book. I have a little bit of an issue of finishing series. I liked how this book almost immediately picked up from where the second one ended and I liked the continue storyline of all the characters and especially the ones that were brought back to this one from the first book. I think a "end" for this main series that it did pretty good because it felt kind of like a big reunion of all of the main overarching points of the book series and stuff like that. I felt like the continued world building was good and overall I'm pretty satisfied with how this main story ended. 
 
 However, the book did suffer from a lot of pacing issues, especially with this one quest where you're kind of just in lull doing side quests for about 300ish pages. There was also some cringe moments with the sex scenes and they just didn't hit as well as they did in the second one. I also feel like the stuff that I was really interested in, the battle and the why as to all of this happening, wasn't really explained or detailed as well as I would have liked it to be in this book. 

 

Verdict: It was great!