i read House of Flame and Shadow so you don't have to - CC3 review and recap
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this may be a hot take, but personally i’m so glad that the terresan court was not in this book, because i would have been livid if any one of them died for this world. also, i hope that the asteri and the valg aren’t the same, because aelin went through SO MUCH to save her world and bryce did it in like a week?? i just feel like this book undermined everything the characters in the other series went through :(
no i agree, i didn't really want the ACOTAR inner circle or terresan actually fighting in the final battle, i 100% wanted it to stay a CC battle and let that cast handle it for themselves. but what i did want and i think most of us were expecting was just more of a crossover as the different worlds helped CC figure out what needed to be done. it didnt really make sense to me that the IC wasnt more willing to help ?? especially once the family ties were revealed. like as much as rhys cares about family, i cant see how finding surprise blood relations on another world wouldnt be earth shattering for him.
and i agree bryce being like super mega awesome wonderful fae queen was so annoying and it didnt feel realistic compared to the other MFC's at all. i'm all for her having a lot of power and getting to keep it in the end, but i wish she'd had to work a bit harder to get the things she wanted. that coupled with how mean and nasty she was being just left me feeling so annoyed that everything worked out for her in the end.
WOW 😮Awesome review and recap of CC 3😅 I totally really liked this. I have noticed that for me Tamlin is the only “male” who is dealing with their ptsd or trauma. And so I totally agree that SJM can’t write “males” being sensitive or showing trauma and I don’t like how Bryce treats Hunt. 😅
I don't think that the asteri are the valg because in tog if I remember correctly, they could tell if valg were around and the valg princes looked different than the asteri. Also their blood was desceibed in tog as smelling really awful and i dont recall that in cc. I also think it is noteable, what the king of the undead said. But then again, sarah made many valid points why the asteri are the valg
Bryce was horrible this book. Her entitlement, hero complex and disregard for anyone around her was torture to read.
it really was!! i've seen the theory of her slipping into a PTSD state which does make sense, but her attitude coupled with the fact she lies in her POVs made it hard for me to trust her enough to understand or connect with how she felt.
Bryce’s character assassination will keep me up at night for years to come .
yes!! super annoying to me how she ended up acting
She started acting like an ass hole. I think Alin was better at being snarky in an epic way, but sometimes Bryce comes off as a dick
I was convinced we were getting a Daenerys situation with how bad she was acting!
Do you think SJM knew how much we’d hate her? Was it intentional?
What I hated were the Infodumps. And the new found arrogant traids in ms. Quinlan. My biggest problem was her opening a cofin with a Asteri in it in an Asteri free world. Without consent from its inhabitants. Without knowing the outcome. The risks. And having to be bailed out by Nesta. The coolest character in the book was definetly Hind. Lidia and Rhun were build up, and Nesta got a nice present in the end. I think she will use that trio in either Acotar 5 or CC 4 (there is a house still left right). But whether I will read them, she has to step up her writing a lot.
given how truly clunky CC is when you first start book one, i didn't totally hate the weird voice mail info dump but i can see how it would be annoying. i think that because i was focusing on what that info meant for rhys it was holding my attention decently ??
i agree, opening the coffin was just unhinged behavior to me. she was SO self-centered and not taking the time to be like "i have come to a totally different world, and i know how much this is scaring me, and if i want them to help me i need to be understanding and try to voice all of my concerns and fears but ALSO listen to theirs" like to just not register at all that they would also be scared and concerned and have families and friends to protect was just unacceptable to me lmao i know she was stressed and worried but that doesn't excuse just bulldozing into another planet and screwing them over REPEATEDLY and then being like "awww why are they
so mad at me 👉🏼👈🏼" it just made her so hard to read and relate to personally.
I dont find Bryce to be a very likable character.
And the way Bryce got mad at Nesta and Az for killing the Asteri like "how dare you kill this very dangerous creature, I haven't asked all my questions yet. I could've killed her easily when I'm done" like Bryce was so delusional
Bryce telling Lidia to basically suck it up was so hypocritical since she endangers the whole mission a few pages later by not sticking to the plan and using up most of her magic on one asteri while ignoring Hunt, who tells her to stick to the plan
The fact that this was all 1 book spanning 7-10 days is mind blowing to me. It should have been broken out into 2 books: house of flame and shadow AND house of many waters, giving SJM time and space to flesh out all these dropped plot points and find a freaking use for Ithan and Tharion. We could have gotten payoff for the river and ocean queens and so much more. But no.
I agree with the people saying SJM figured out she wanted to keep writing more ACOTAR and TOG books while working on CC3 but she needed the final battle to happen on Midgard first to push ACOTAR forward. Too bad too because I think this could have been great and instead we got what we got.
This is hands down the best review I've seen so far! I'm a massive SJM fan and I was so horribly disappointed and confused by this book. I've been searching for reviews because the writing in this took such a huge nose dive from her other works. This book just pales in comparison to her other series. Def keep making more videos! I feel like there is so much to say about this book.
thank you so much thats so kind of you to say!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it :) the longer I sit having finished it I just keep coming back to how disappointing and lack luster it was. The rise of people really defending it is wild too, because it's not even just the plot I think is lacking but the editing and writing itself. We KNOW she can do better and I think it's important to talk about when things don't work out - especially because a lot of stuff is pointing to it being a team/editor problem for her. I hate to think her team will get so comfortable they just stop helping her create these awesome worlds and stories like TOG.
I would have actually found it very interesting if Bryce became a villain. Like we saw glimpses of how she’s very hypocritical and power hungry and instead of trying to justify it, she should have gone further into that path and realize that she’s no better than Theia or the autumn king. I think Sarah lay out a strong potential for her to become a villain with all the things she said and did and even hunt saying he hates her (even for just a second). I actually thought she would become kind of like Theia or her father until the she lay of the crown. (Which I thought was so weird and random for her)
Yes!! I was so surprised that Bryce had 2 years and still was not over her trauma of loosing Danika. And still showed not empathy towards Hunt. I do not like them together anymore, for all the reason you mentioned. Plus the way they went after Rhys for Nesta, FYI, NESTA HERSELF even said that even Cassian was mad at her. She was wrong and still everyone went after Rhys. I have no words..... Por Az..
I think a lot of my disappointment comes from knowing Sarah CAN write decent battle scenes that don’t feel flat, and fight scenes that have decent payoff, and characters with actual stakes, because she did a way better job in Throne of Glass. So to not get any of that here made it feel like so much potential wasted. I haaaaaaaaated how every single fight scene was so easy. It was such a let down. Oh no bad guy-poof-vanquished. Too easy, it’s boring. There weren’t any actual stakes or consequences for anything so it felt very much “the rules don’t matter and nothing is real”
yes exactly!! so frustrating to know how good she can make these scenes and then end up with this...
Bryce is the true villain of this story
lmaooo she really was pushing my last nerve for so much it
Actually, like why was girly so evil this book. Like for no reason
Love this video! This series has definitely fallen flat for me especially after how much I enjoyed ToG and ACOTAR, the characters especially. It was also really funny to me when Bryce compared Hunt and Cassian, acting like they aren't a copy paste of one another.
So much of this felt irrelevant to me (like Ithan and Tharion) and most of the villains didn't seem as great as we don't have any idea about their motivation.
The ending felt so similar to ACOWAR which I was so odd and I was half hoping she had died, like you mentioned. I was also expecting her to switch places with Danika because it seems like SJM thinks Danika should have been the protagonist considering how many of the plot twists is something she set in motion years before
100% it feels like chunks of this book are nothing but filler that doesnt amount to anything; i'm all for the little scenes showing small moments with the characters but i want them to mean something in the end.
oh man I hadn't even considered bryce and danika switching places!! that would have been cool
What a cool theory Bryce and Danika switch places. I love Danika I think is the real protagonist. And her love story with Baxian broke my heart. So why Sarah didn’t make it happen.
Flynn's line during R&L in the hay barn had me straight up cackle
YES it was one of my favorite lines from the whole book lmao
dude of course what happened to aelin was so much worse it was so traumatising i still cry when i remeber what maeve did to her and how rowan was going crazy and searching for her. ToG is probably my favourite series of all time.
i'm currently editing part one of the KOA recap to come out today and its so heartbreaking ):
Omg. Chills. So heavy!
I hated how fishy boy said he would divorce sathia after knowing it would mess up her life and the fact that nearly all her life the men around her have been 💩 like I know he didn’t love love her but it would have been so sweet if they grew on each other.
I think that’s probably gonna happen in the next book. A lot of people say that fish boy and wolf boy will be the protagonist in the next book and I think Sathia will definitely be back
Right?! And she was so kind to him in that scene and stood up for him, showing so much grace in front of the River Queen then he immediately threw her under the bus like, "Yeah, I never even wanted to marry her. I'll throw her away right now if you need me to."
I swear I thought there was a 4th fae fratboy in Ruhn's troop. Tristan Flynn, sometimes Tristan, sometimes Flynn + Declan Emmet, sometimes Dec, sometimes Declan, sometimes Emmet
lmaoooo yes !! you get it 😂😂😂
@@fantasyfixations I'm also kinda suspicious about my Goodreads review (2/5) has gotten zero likes or comments in a full week, even when reviews posted last night are getting traction. I heard rumors bad reviews were disappearing
I felt really bad for Hunt because Bryce was just so cruel. Too everyone not even just Hunt.
GIRL!!! I literally finished cc3 minutes ago and i stumbled upon your video, and omg i agree 100% with what you are saying.
#HuntDeservesBetter ❤
omg !!! perfect hashtag 😂 our poor angel boy i just couldn't take the bullying lmao
YES was waiting for cari’s video but this was such a great surprise!!
thank you!! i hope she still does one though, i love listening to her talk about the craziness too lol
Yeah i think Sigrid was supposed to be the leader of the pack. I was really getting that vibe in book 2.
1:22:47 Bryce at this point justs sounds like in another story she could full on evil girlfriend that's only exploiting him for his powers and what he can do for her and Hunt's only staying with her because he believes what they have is love until the female lead comes around and basically tells him what she's doing isn't okay and even though they're at war, he doesn't have to be okay all the time. Honestly, Someone could write a book about it or if you know anyone that has written something similar please tell me, cause the onky time I've seen something similar is in fanfics of other books/shows
I feel like bryce is supposed to be presented as a aelin type girlie who has all these great plans, and is always like 5 steps ahead of everyone and she is supposed to look all cool, smooth and charismatic but she is so naive and dismissive of everyone, refuses to admit when she is wrong and refuses to take any accountability or advise from those who clearly know better than her, that she is just annoying and frustrating to read, instead of the great character and leader that aelin clearly is/ becomes
There was another moment where SJM changed the clothing of Bryce on accident. There was a scene she was described in a navy jacket and then it’s black a page later and I felt like maybe I was going crazy. Such a small detail it’s so frustrating
dude !! ugh yes those little details seem so simple but when they get messed up its so annoying. I'm a writer too and I'm constantly double checking myself to avoid this happening lmao
I was cackling this entire video, you are so funny & I agree with pretty much everything you said! Still love SJM, still believe her books changed my life but this book wasn’t what I’d hoped it to be.
dude thank you so much!! so glad you enjoyed :)
Commenting again, just have to say I love your videos and I can’t believe you don’t have more followers with how consistent you are ! Keep it up, you are amazing !
aw dude thank you!! this means a lot :)
I just finished today-and you are speaking exactly how I felt the whole time-and feel-still processing- but I love your video, literally making me laugh out loud. I found you bc of this. Subscribed 🤗
9:38 omg finallyy! i thought i was the only one bothered by her actions when i was reading the book. so it's frustrating to see some people when they compare Bryce's attitude to Aelin like y'all need to re-read TOG again bc Aelin might be a queen in scheming but she never treats her friends' lives like Bryce did here. 😭
1:08:04 poor hunt fr like what the hell is that bryce 💀
I’m so glad I found this video because I was trying to find a good review/ recap of the book and this was so funny and engaging I loved it! I quit reading crescent city after the first book because it’s really just so hard to read and comprehend for me personally. These videos help so much in understanding what happens because I do love SJM books. I am disappointed that this book was so all over the place and that Bryce was written so weirdly. I really hope future ACOTAR books aren’t affected. Thank you for the time and effort this definitely took!!!
They literally give Cormac a Scottish accent in the audiobooks!! 😂
omg no way lmaoooo I guess it makes more sense remembering cormac is from there but I could not handle all the scottish names all at ones lmaooo
Bro bryce just ruins this series, all other characters are okay but it’s hard to like a series where I can’t connect with the main character
yes!! i was able to push through the first two with her but whatever was going on in CC3 was just too much for me
I love that i found this video/creator because cari hasnt made a CC3 video yet, and not only did she reference cari multiple times💜 but girl yes you have spoken just about every opinion i have about this book. So glad i found you, im typing this as the video wraps up so now im off to find the next 😂💜
1:26:44 IT’S THE WINDING OF THE FIST IM CRYING😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
oooooh i wanted to fight her 😂😂😂
I am also a SJM girlie. I read TOG first as each book came out starting in HS and finishing when I was 20. I have the entire series with the original covers and I straight up wore a lot of them out from rereading them over and over. My amazing BF got me the entire series in the new cover art and I have to say… they are much better than the original artwork. I can literally do a side-by-side comparison on my shelf and the new art just looks so much prettier. The art style is also more mature. I would highly recommend getting copies with the new cover art.
I swear I couldn't stop laughing while watching. You're so effortlessly funny. I just finished the book. I agree with everything you said!
haha thank you!! glad you enjoyed :)
This book feels like SJM wrote 6 different books and then realized it was too long and just shoved all of the plots together haphazardly and it was still SO LONG????
haha yes exactly 🤦🏼♀️ i just think there were some major editing issues that led to stuff feeling rushed/plot lines just totally getting dropped off without payoff
congrats on 1k subscribers !!!
thank you thank you!! :)
This review is SPOT ON! So relieved I am not the only one that felt like this book was a let down. You put all of my feelings into words.
Dying for you to do in depth ACOTAR rants. Maybe when we get confirmation on ACOTAR 6 coming out 😂 please and thank you.
Ive been listening to this while cooking dinner over the past few days and you're right on point with everything. It fell so flat for me. I was really expecting EOS and ACOWAR vibes from this book because its supposedly book 3 of 4 but it didnt pack nearly the punch it needed to. I think the crossover felt meh. Bryce has never been my favorite but I pretty much couldn't stand her for most of this book. I was riding for Lidia. Bryce in general just did not feel like a fully fleshed out FMC if we're looking at SJMs history. She felt like a giant cliche. The alphahole thing could have been done better. Bryce became an alphahole instead. And honesty i dont blame Danika for keeping info from her because girl was not and is still not ready for it. Bleh.
I dnf'ed this book at about 40%. I just wasn't enjoying it. I really wasn't a big fan of crescent city either, but I was so excited about the crossover and it was just disappointing. Maybe I'll pick it up and finish it, but not right now. I'm really enjoying you're video!!
oh man i get it, i pushed through because i really wanted to get a video made about it but if i had just read for fun i think 100% i would have taken a few weeks to get around to finishing it lol so glad you enjoyed!!
I loved how on TOG traveling would take such a long time on which we had character development and training… Bryce got this immense amount of power and she *just knows* what to do and how to do it! 😅 there’s so much going on, so fast and so many characters…
YEEEESSS someone finally adresses the Autumn King !! I totally agree : we were led to believe that he might have a "good side", that at tleast he cared in his own twited way about his children, which I found really interesting (I love complex Villains, and even more so complex Villain-Heroes relationship) but nope ! SJM had to ruin it all here...
exactly !! why leave all these breadcrumbs if it meant nothing ?? what was the point ?? i kept running into that in CC3 specifically where it felt like things were just crossed out because she randomly changed her mind - like with sigrids pointless arc and the ocean/river queens not being important, and even jesiba ?? she felt SO cool and powerful and i feel like it fizzled out to nothing
@@fantasyfixations Yeeees that's exactly how I felt too ! So frustrating ! Same thing for Fury ! It happened for so many things really that I've lost count ....
When I was reading the book I thought everyone could be a reble. Even Morvin
I need to be able to like this video more than once. Loved it. Completely agree.
aw dude thank you!!! ✨
agreed. agreed on all accounts. thank you for doing this video because i have no one to talk about this
the only thing i can kinda maybe forgive is bryce telling hunt to get his shit together on the ship.
as a person who always takes a lot of responsibility in everyday situations i sometime get a feeling that everyone else could step up a bit more. and given the "chosen" situation bryce is in (set up by sara ofc) i feel like she just needs a hand. and this hand in her situation is hunt as her mate. she needs him for support to feel a wee more protective but idk. but other than that i can sigh under every point you've made.
does this makes sense?
The idea about the pocket of nothing with the christmas presents now containing the Asteri is killing meeeee 😂😂😂
I agree with all your points, and it's not even like I went into the book with super high expectations. In fact, I was pretty neutral about it and just looking forward to seeing how the story plays out. Needless to say, it was infuriating to me, the overall story, the character assassination, the convenience-plot and the plot-armour. I really think SJM bit off more than she could chew with this one.
The way SJM made Bryce so unpleasant in the third book is part of the reason I couldn’t finish CC3. Omg and the info dumps?! SJM really disappointed me with this book and that makes me so sad because I like the CC series AND I love Nesta, but feel like both were treated so uncharacteristically that it pissed me off.
I can't watch this yet because I'm still reading but I cannot wait to hear what you have to say! I'm so close to finishing, I will be back.
I wonder if SJM is setting up Bryce as the next villain….or do you think she actually thinks all the nasty things Bryce did is valid and ok? 😢
so i could honestly see this going either way!! but i have seen a lot of people say that maybe bryce was just reverting to her old personality because of the trauma, and i do sort of see that i just wish sjm did a better job of explaining/expressing trauma. she tends to focus really strongly on certain things/opinions but then other important stuff gets dropped off
1:32:13 epic the musical is in my heart~ get in the water Odysseus
I’m so relieved I’m not the only one sort of disappointed by this book. I wanted to love it so bad and I had so much faith in it! I kept thinking that the book was going to take a turn for the better but sadly not:(
I’ve been avoiding this video because I wanted to read CC3 before I watched your review and then realized you began mentioning things in your ToG recaps so I had to speed those moments up and now I’m finally back. I just finished chapter 26 and literally have no to will to finish it because what in the fuck is happening???? Every time we pivot back to Nesta, Azriel, and Bryce I just got more and more pissed off lmao and their fight with the Asteri? So I just said fuck it I’m going to find out the rest by watching this because I literally can’t
I kinda wanted a longer power up. I wanted Bryce to train with the inner circel. I had a headcanon that she could use all that special power from the gate. So i hoped she would learn more about it with the inner circel and in hell. I wanted her to explore hell. There are to many main charakters, I love them all but the perspektive shift annoyed me so much...
Edit: Same I also I wanted more of Hypaxia, i hope she gets a bigger role in the next book. I wanted to learn more about the witches and now she is also head of the house and without Jesiba as a second it's going to get intresting.
Fishy 😄 love the nickname. I DNF'd the book at 60%, I just couldn't do it anymore. People keep asking why and I'm tempted to just send them your video. You summed it up completely! HOFAS was such a disappointment and I'm wondering whether the publisher/SJM are just taking the piss out of us at this point.
haha in my head he's a lovely orange goldfish lmaoooo glad you enjoyed!!
yeah I just think she had good ideas and the editing team just didn't do her work justice this time around, everything was rushed and crammed and the ending was so so lackluster for me. I'm still excited to see where things go and how they connect even more but it just wasnt enough for me lol
It’s funny that you compare Hunt to Cassian. When in reality all SJM’s characters are recycled.
I also thought, that overpowering Bryce with Theias Star and the antidote was quite unneccessary. Thinking of how hard the inner circle or aelins court fought and searched for the tiniest bit of power to have a chance against their enemies. It was too much and too soon i think
This has been. Word for word. Exactly my reaction to CC3. Ruhn and Lidia rule tho 💫
48:12 ok I was curious about that. I saw other reviews that said that but I was like where?! lol but that make sense I guess.
Not sure if anyone brought it up but 15,000 is not 1500. A millennia is 1000 years.
This wasn’t an acotar book! Rhys wasn’t needed in my opinion
I loved it, it was my favourite one but I think why I liked it a lot more was because I only read the first 2 this year aswell so I didn’t have to wait so I wasn’t overhyping and wasn’t really excited
i'm glad it was a fun book for you!! i'm seeing a lot of people that are fans of CC say it was/was one of their favorites and i'm happy for yall!!
People keep saying that Lidia is related to Brannon/Aelin/Dorian but on a second read I noticed she said she had named her kid after Brannon from "the oldest legends from her family's bloodline: a fae king from another world, fire in his veins, who had created stags with the power of flame to be his sacred guards"
Also side note Prythian and Hybern maps are like versions of Britain and Ireland and ACOTAR is full of old Irish names so it makes sense that their descendants in Midgard would have Celtic names like Seamus, Declan, Cormac, Gwydion, Fionn, Morrigan. Even Ruhn's last name Dannan comes from Tuatha Dé Danaan.
Im someone who personally loved this book and gave it 5 stars! That being said now im watching/reading peoples reviews i can totally see the criticisms are valid. I think for me one of the biggest things in hindsight that might drop my rating was bryce herself, because though i loved the book she was my least favourite part. Hunt felt like the main character i was routing for. Bryce came off as an Aelin copy but weaker and wrong.
thank you for watching and hearing my side dude thats awesome!! my bff and i read it together and she also loved it, we had some interesting texts towards the end as things were winding down lol
i was so glad hunt had that moment with shahar dude, that really got me in the feels. and yes !! i think sjm really loves aelin and she wanted to add those traits onto bryce but she stopped feeling like bryce - she was just trying too hard and the behavior was too all over the place for me /:
Also- commenting again- I think it would hv so much more satisfying for the world of Midgard to get split in half and only have one or two asterisks die. Then we can have a bigger pay off bc the Asteri were big and bad in TWO out of three books! How were they killed so fast?
This is three months later, so you probably won't see this, but I just want to say that you're hilarious! I'm watching this now, despite the fact I read this on its release date because I've been going crazy this entire week thinking about how much I didn't like this book, so I've been binging reading vlogs, recaps, theories, etc. to try to see it from a different perspective.
The only reason I even read the CC series is bc I didn't do enough research and was under the false impression that Aelin was basically 100% guaranteed to show up in CC3, and I think the disappointment of her not being in it really dragged the book down for me. That's why I believe Lidia was my favorite character because while I actually do love her character, it's really amplified by her relation to the Galathynius line. Similar to the Autumn King's good or bad arc, there were so many strings that were left untied in this book.
I'm still going to read any book she releases with the HOPE Aelin shows up again (as you can tell, I'm obsessed with her), but if I was going to be reading 3 massive books, I at least wanted them to be good.
haha thank you!!! im glad i was able to make you laugh lol
yeah, i think a lot of people went into this thinking that aelin was 100% going to be involved. from what i saw, sjm didn't do a very good job of stopping those rumors, which makes sense because she obviously wants to sell books. but i do think it was pitched as this big crossover, so to only see a handful of our ACOTAR characters and not even have bryce meet feyre felt wild to me.
i agree, i really liked lidia and im excited to hopefully see more of her!!
i was gonna say what if maeve was one of the asteri but then i remebered that she is actually valg so if the valg and the asteri are the same then i need to reread ToG bc it had more of the valg/asteri history and their real world
When you were talking about the hot pink sneaker that was suddenly a boot it reminded me of another part where Bryce is described multiple times as wearing a skin tight BLUE jacket. Then on the next page it says “her BLACK jacket” I was like- holdup
ugh yes !! these little issues bring me out of the story so quick
My favourite character is Baxian. I fell in love with him. He is sweet, caring, open minded, and handled his turn from evil to good personality very wisely. And his lovestory with Danika, even we read only his own perspective left me heartbroken. I would like a prequel chapter just for them. And i think that the dead Danika is the real star of the series. Everything leads to her action. I wish somehow returned but no we had to read 150 pages about Ethan. Boring and unecessary sub plot. Generally, I loved the lovestory between Lidia and Ruhn but quickly became flat. I forced my self to read this third book. The storytelling is so flat.I waited something epic or at least a cliffhanger.
Also Lidia had twins from a secret union rite, and Gwyn was a twin from a secret union rite...... could this be leading to anything?
DUDE thats such a great point!! I hadn't thought of that!!
Pretty sure the best friend with the dagger was Enalius. That's why Az was so shocked. Also I think its be more like 8 generations assuming everyone lived their max life.
I couldn't handle finishing the book so I came here for a quick recap and the last thing I was expecting was a mech fight in space and an abusive boss giving her life to the minimum wage intern to wrap all of this shit up.
pls i'm so sorry you came all this way for that 😂😂😂😂
I’m still not sold on ToG being NOT in the same timeline camp. That being said, let’s remember that Rowan and Aelin’s rings came out of a tomb.
1:26:08 lol did this happen once upon a time? Not him pulling out an astri but him reaching in? Or is this just like a funny scene imagined
no i just kept thinking it lol because in frost and starlight rhys brings up the 'pocket of nothingness' where he hides the christmas presents for everyone and now it turns out the swords open one too ?? so are there just lots of little pockets ?? lol
@@fantasyfixations hahaha! I remember that, that would be super funny.
I burst out laughing at Walmart Cassian 😂😂😂
lolololololol he is!!
I got to 80% and had to watch this to finish the story. I just couldn’t make myself finish lolol
yes dude i stalled out for so long right at the final 3rd, i just knew i wasnt going to care about the ending and it made it so hard to push through and finish. if i didnt want to make a video i think it would have been a dnf for me too!!
I will say I am not a fan of the Acotar series for one, (I have read the books) and I don’t really like Rhysand or Feyre.
BUT. Am I the only one that thinks the idea that there were other high ladies previously, kind of diminishes Feyre becoming the ‘first’ High Lady? And by proxy Rhysand giving her that position? Like it kinda makes that arc feel less important if she’s not the first and it’s not this GroUnD BReaKing thing that she is High Lady of the Night Court? I’m not sure if that being included is a retcon or just new information but meh.
Anyways it’s just a thought I had :)
I hear you! It's hard to be a rhys and feyre lover lol a lot of people are getting a point where they really don't enjoy them. They hold a place in my heart because ACOTAR was my first SJM book, so I think I will always be excited about them.
I took it more as rhys being like his ancestors in a way that his dad wasn't. sort of like he remembers the old ways or has a connection back to the older traditions, which seems to be a trend with him already. people in ACOTAR think he's being radical, but really they've just forgotten that at one point they were all connected and took care of each other. I have a feeling rhys either knows more than we're being led to believe, or there's going to be some complicated lore dropped in ACOTAR6 about why he's the way he is lmao
I am so happy I found your channel. I have many thoughts. Ok, the storyline w. The viper queen why did she setup Astrid and ithan? Was she consorting with Sabine? Nothing made sense with this entire scene. With the dannika storyline wtf happened to mordoc? Am I blanking out? I remember a scene in cc2 when Sabine was all like.do not tell danikas father "mordoc" about danika bad things will happen Yada yada.. well wtf happen to him? He was second in command to the hind aka Lydia. Was he a rebel? so much could have happened with dannikas father. But nope. Let's be real the only real hero here was cormick and he wasn't even in this book. The entire rebel storyline just fell out. She had an epic setup to what? Nothing lol...
I feel like this entire book was Author vs editor. Clearly Sarah J Maas has a formula and that formula was annihilated by some unseen unimaginative alternate ghost editor. It felt like edits were inserted and thats why nothing connected. I truly think Sarah j maas was fighting for this book but the editor had alot of say and control over her work. I watched an interview where they said Maas was going through some shit and the story she wrote isn't what she wanted to tell so she scraped it and started all over hence the 2 year wait. Idk if someone cam help me out remembering where mordoc went and that storyline I will be so grateful.
I couldnt w. Bryce she was a real narcissistic piece of work. I have so much to say about bryce. I'll post again lol.. but WTF HAPPENED TO DANNIKAS FATHER?
You know I kinda hoped we would get more connection between the worlds, if only for the sake of hepaxia and mor meeting- Cause at this point mor deserves a girlfriend.
como fan de ACOTAR, desearía nunca haber conocido este libro... fingiré que nada de esto es canon.
Wait did Bryce abolish the monarchy for only the Faye right
I will never understand how the Byrce defenders say that her and Hunt's relationship is mature and that they communicate well. Are we all reading the same books???
i have a mixed relationship with sjm (HATE ACOTAR WITH A BURNING PASSION, loved tog except eos and koa and really enjoyed cc1/2.) Hofas for me, is a mid book. Not as bad as eos, acosf but not god by a long strecth. i liked lida and ruhn and everyone else could die for all i care . loved the video
I rage against all her books that have come out after silver flames.
Amazing review and recap of CC3 so thank you ☺️ I am confused if no one can die on Midgard then why did Conrad die is this like a new thing happening in Midgard in CC 3 because of the gates opening up or something ?
thank you!! glad you enjoyed :)
so if i remember correctly cormac like basically incinerated himself ? so there was nothing for them to save to heal/put back together. i think it's less that they "cant die" and more that she decided they could regrow any vital organs or limb.
@@fantasyfixationsokay. So I totally get the pacing and the info dumping , world building and lack editing and imo it’s just SJM’s signature which is a bit annoying.
The thing is I decided to read ACOTAR just because the third book was said to have the characters in it. And when I first tried I hated ACOTAR. But trying it again. I got to say I liked it better than the crescent city series. The only good part about it was Nesta and Azriel and the hind. I liked the first book it was great (house of blood and earth) the second book was hard to get through and the third yikes. I’m a huge sjmass fan. But the third book was as if she lost heart in the story or something maybe editorial bs. Who knows.
Ugh i just finished this book a few days ago. AWFUL.
I have always thought SJM is a talented writer, no hate to her at all but because my standards for her writing is so high which is why it fell so flat tbh.
I dont think ill read another SJM book sadly.
I used to love sjm's books too.
Ugh.
Heartbreak.
It took me a month to read this book. A MONTH! I started it on January 31 and finished it February 26 because I simply could not be bothered. A lot of the points you make are similar to the thoughts I had. I was so disappointed with this book.
yes!! i only pushed through because i knew i wanted to make a video for you guys. otherwise i think it would have taken me soooo long to finish, or i may have honestly DNF'ed it
I also like around 40% of it. There was some really good stuff, but it just felt so slow. It made me sad beacuse this book had really awesome potential.
It could have been 1/3 the size.
I dont she had any editing cause they know people will buy it.
Since nestas book its been all down hill, imo.
I'm an hour in & I am LIVID that Bryce is such a HOT HEAD. I CANT EVEN. Why would an author do this to us.
Thank god i didnt buy and read all of cresent City because of the spoiler i read for the second book
Thank you very muuuchh 😊
haha you're welcome!! I borrowed it from my friend and I'm probably going to wait until I can buy the paperback or get it second hand to complete my collection...it sucks that its not worth it ):
Are you going to do Crescent City 1 and 2?
i don't think i will, but if you're looking for recaps cari can read has really good ones for both CC and ACOTAR! I will be finishing my TOG recaps tho :)
@@fantasyfixations ooh OK thanks for the info 👍 🙂
I was so upset we didn’t see Feyre. I waited books and books to see the main girls meet each other and instead I got hoodwinked with my least favorite character of ACOTAR. Ahh! It drove me insane haha
lol i know!! like seeing rhys was nice but the fact that feyre and nyx are only mentioned off page is crazy to me. i felt like she was setting us up for more nesta content because sjm uses her as the closest thing to a self insert - i didnt mind seeing her with bryce, i felt like she did make sense with bryce. but to not see feyre at all felt so weird!!
@@fantasyfixations yeah like I can handle Nesta if I have to and even like her sometimes, and I thought the three made sense exploring together. But to completely ignore Feyre? Rhys at least got some on page dialogue, even if I wish it was more. It feels like she wants to just forget about them, which seems so weird to me. Like because Feyre is a mother now, she no longer exists?! The woman has the powers of 7 courts, you can’t tell me she wouldn’t have been so freaking helpful? She was able to kill the Middenguard wyrm as a human that Nesta had to enchant something to kill for her. I just feel like Feyre would have been so perfect for what was needed and it was just so meanly intentional to leave her out entirely 😫
I was actually kinda surprised at how many of your opinions I agreed with because I came out of the book mostly really liking it despite the issues 😅
But anyway, the one thing I genuinely disagreed with you on is Bryce. She's always been an unreliable narrator, she's always lied to us in her POVs and you're definitely right that it is annoying, but I kinda got used to it by now. Anyway, point is, because she's unreliable, and maybe this is me giving her the benefit of the doubt, but I read her harshness towards especially Hunt, but also everyone else, as her reaction to her own fear. Like, she was so freaking scared of going into this and fighting this fight and she *needed* to know that Hunt was in it 100% no hesitation no second thoughts or she wouldn't be able to do it at all. Like, to me it just seemed like her terror response was to say "you either are in or out, no hesitations, no in between, commit now"
I'm not saying that it's a good response and it certainly wasn't the right one and like I said, I certainly have plenty of other issues with the book, but that was how I was interpreting the Bryce stuff (though I definitely seem to be in trhe minority on that 😅)
Nope.. there's too much resurrection happening in this book. :D
oh yes the hot pink sneakers...... the curtains are blue lol
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I'm only 25% through the book and I'm carefully testing how far I can watch before reading more 😬
omg be careful bestie!!
I actually didn't finish yet because I'm so annoyed with the circle jerk overpoweredness of everybody. But now I'm gonna finish your video anyway. They're insufferable 🫠
I whole heartedly agree with your review.. I literally had the same reaction .. what the heck ithan and why is tharion even there !
Also I probably read all of Bryce’s scene with a nagging childish voice .. spot on .. she is my least favorite SJM character.. ( really a miss for the modern day fantasy aspect )
I 100% agree. I read the 1st book before I ever read any of the other SJM books and I liked it then paused to read all of her other books and came back to this series and was SO disappointed!! I liked the 1st one but te plot book 2 and 3 was so bad plus Bryce just became insufferably arrogant and selfish. The way she treated her "Mate" and everyone else was just gross.
I just read the whole ACOTAR series and after this review, I'm not shore that I'm gonna like this new crossover series.
After listening to you, it seems like this book series is damaging ACOTAR, and we are sort of forced to read it to get all content .😢 ...I was also annoyed about Nestas P.O.V of Rhys.
I missed being in Feyra and Rhys heads in book 5 ACOSAF. I wanted to experience there emotions and reactions of the pregnancy stuff. I wish the book had mixed some of their p.o.v. with Nesta and Cassian's. 😢
No TOG recap??
They aren't the same thing, but I feel like the underking was volg.
yes !! it was weird the connections and little bread crumbs between the different villains. I want full confirmation on who/what everyone is lmao
I hope that if House of Many Waters comes out, that its not as bad as A court of Frost and Starlight.
May god I need a break:
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1:46:13 i too am simply just a girl