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 Review: I used to love Sarah J. Maas's works dearly. I used to love the first three books of Throne of Glass so so much. A Court of Thorn and Roses wasn't bad and A Court of Mist and Fury was a great one, indeed. When I first got my copy of A Court of Wings and Ruin, I was excited, seriously pumped to get into it. Then... I saw how thick it was, and I knew that, here we go, another too-many-words book I'm about to dive into. I set myself upon this book pretty quickly, even after reading the amazing The Hate U Give that's supposed to make me think. I'm not sure how much of this book I enjoyed, honestly. Possibly, none. 
 There was one time, that one time I fell for Maas's writing style and that one time was when I first read Throne of Glass, before Queen of Shadows came out. I thought her work was incredible. Now, I still do think the writing in this book was decent, but I had some issues. I'm not sure I liked the way she used so much 'metaphor', if I'm using the right word. It felt very weird to read about something as simple as 'window' when it was described as 'moon, stars, and light'. Maybe I didn't use my brain that much for metaphors, I don't know. Or maybe this work is just confusing, using metaphors to make it sound so sophisticated. I'm not falling for it. The fact that in A Court of Wings and Ruin, the characters mentioned each other as 'my mate' so many times made me gag. Other than that, I'm generally fine with sex scenes. But the way Sarah J. Maas wrote her sex scenes. Ugh. I seriously rolled my eyes all the way because, like I said, she used 'metaphors' to make her sex scenes sound so phenomenal and arousing and important. This book shouldn't be 700 pages. It's a slag since the plot is so little and unnecessary. The writing was overflowing and somehow repetitive. If this book wasn't 700 pages, I would even give it better rating. 
 The rating is an indication that I don't like this book, especially the plot because there was nothing intriguing for me to keep up with. I wasn't entertained anymore despite the decent writing. This book, I found very fatigue due to the plot pace. There weren't fighting or action interesting enough until perhaps 400 pages in, which is also the reason why I am likely to forget most of what happened in the book. I'm very disappointed. The last 150 pages alone was a little too late for me to get excited because I had enough boredom with the other 550. I wish I could have given this book one more star for the ending, I nearly did because I could feel the tension. But... It wasn't enough. (view spoiler)[ I wish Maas had killed Rhysand and not brought him back. There. I said it. Or perhaps kill him in this book to make people suffer and revive him in the next book. That would be epic, in my opinion. But of course, she didn't. I sort of knew that she would bring him back because she wasn't brave enough to do it (?). Who knows? He's her favorite character after all. (hide spoiler)] 
 Feyre. Is. Not. Cute. I don't see the character development in her. She's never been my favorite character and I really don't know why. I never took interest in her like I did Celaena. I also disliked Rhysand and I didn't understand why people shipped him and Feyre in the first book, too. In the second book, he was fine, as also in this book. I'm not sure how much I liked him, though. 
 Overall: I had hoped this book would be great, but it isn't great. I was highly disappointed. I would continue reading the 4th book just because I still have high hope and want to enjoy the story I want to bullshit about it, since that's what I like. lol no.