What Happened Here?!

I'm sorry to say... this book was a huge and utter disappointment to me. There are so many things to name that went wrong here. I’ll try to pinpoint some…

The sexual tit-for-tat between Nesta and Cassian was borderline ridiculous. The characters must have been experiencing PTSD after the war with Hybern because no one seemed to be themselves in this book. Everyone seemed to really be out of sorts and didn’t resemble the characters previously presented in the prior novels. Their behavior was a huge deviation from their usual charismatic selves.

As hard as I tried, I just couldn’t like Nesta. I think they took her anger too far. It should have been dialed back a little in the middle of ACOFAS to at least show her making an effort to change her negative ways. Thus, her having to deal with the Cauldron again in ACOSF giving her backslide into bad behavior more credibility. Especially, with the events that took place at the end of ACOWAR. At least then, we’d have something to root for. Her fast turnaround of behavior made the plot all the more contrived.

Cassian is wasted on Nesta. Sad because I really like him. I am all for a slow burn but there was never any close moments in the previous novels to give the heat and type of foundation. Their anger towards each other was the spark that ignited them. Many people like that kind of stuff… if it’s done right, so do I. Sorry! Not the case here!

The bonus chapters left me angry and very upset with Rhys. I won’t spoil it but, his reaction was out of left field and the Rhys in the previous books would never have demanded what he did of his brother. Very disappointing.

*sigh* At least I can go back and reread again. I’ll just stop at “Starlight”.