Review: A Court of Wings and Ruin

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What do I hate about SJM's writing...let me list the ways:
- overuse of single-line sentences, dashes...and ellipses
- question sentences do not work the way she thinks they do
- so many sentences that are literally meaningless or not appropriate for where they are placed
- sometimes characters' reactions are just super confusing?? (Feyre, putting yourself in mortal harm is not comparable to relationship issues...)
- there are more but I shall stop here so I don't convince myself I actually hated this book (I didn't!!)

Okay let's put all that aside; for some reason, I still love her books? So many things annoy me, but I really enjoy her worlds, characters (mostly the side ones, to be honest), and overall plots (even when they're super obvious and cliche). I think I liked ACOMAF slightly more than ACOWAR (it was more focused with less side-questing), but there was still enough there that I could enjoy, even while hate-reading the writing style and glossing over inane sentences. I actually had a few surprises in this one, which I appreciated - even though most of the big things were heavily foreshadowed. I also loved all the new characters - mostly the high lords and their SOs, as well as seeing a couple new locations in the world. SJM does do a decent job of worldbuilding, at least.

Another thing I hate to love? Shipping literally everyone because you know they're all going to be paired off. (There were also a couple surprises there for me, which I hope come up more later!)

There were a lot of very obvious loose ends in this book, and I'm looking forward to seeing those resolved in the next books, because apparently I will keep reading whatever SJM puts out.

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