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A review by shellballenger
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
2.0
Type of read: Lunch/Weekend Read.
What made me pick it up: I started the ACOTAR series at the end of 2023 and I'm very excited to see what else is in store with the next installment.
Overall rating: What in the half-assed, unrelated, mess of words is this?! Even being warned about it (by multiple other reader friends) and knowing that it was not going to be a favorite in the series, 'A Court of Frost and Starlight' was worse than I anticipated. As many others have said, it's like a fan-fiction Christmas special. What got me more than the wish.com-esque storyline was the complete stray from the literary setup of the first books. I know the first books dabbled in a few chapters with different points of view, but this was just excessive and unnecessary. There is no reason why in roughly 280 pages we need to cycle between so many POVs AND decide that we're going to go all willy-nilly with the use of 1st and 3rd person with ZERO consistency. I refuse to believe this is actually part of the story. It's simply a cauldron-induced nightmare that I never want to speak of again.
Reader's Note: ACOTAR includes (very) mild sexual relationships and themes of war, abuse, torture, and murder. While it's not really present in Frost and Starlight (cauldron-induced nightmare remember...) I'm leaving this reader's note on as anyone reading Frost and Starlight should just chuck it out the window and pick up any of the other books in the series.
What made me pick it up: I started the ACOTAR series at the end of 2023 and I'm very excited to see what else is in store with the next installment.
Overall rating: What in the half-assed, unrelated, mess of words is this?! Even being warned about it (by multiple other reader friends) and knowing that it was not going to be a favorite in the series, 'A Court of Frost and Starlight' was worse than I anticipated. As many others have said, it's like a fan-fiction Christmas special. What got me more than the wish.com-esque storyline was the complete stray from the literary setup of the first books. I know the first books dabbled in a few chapters with different points of view, but this was just excessive and unnecessary. There is no reason why in roughly 280 pages we need to cycle between so many POVs AND decide that we're going to go all willy-nilly with the use of 1st and 3rd person with ZERO consistency. I refuse to believe this is actually part of the story. It's simply a cauldron-induced nightmare that I never want to speak of again.
Reader's Note: ACOTAR includes (very) mild sexual relationships and themes of war, abuse, torture, and murder. While it's not really present in Frost and Starlight (cauldron-induced nightmare remember...) I'm leaving this reader's note on as anyone reading Frost and Starlight should just chuck it out the window and pick up any of the other books in the series.