Sarah J. Maas' writing is getting quite repetitive at this point. I LOVED Crown of Midnight so I know what Maas is capable of, but A Court of Wings and Ruin and Empire of Storms were both slogfests. So many pages with so much filler. It's getting a bit tedious. 
 Plus: There wasn't so much "cleaving" this time. 
 Minus: "Vulgar gestures" were every other page. Does someone even edit these books and point out the frequency with which certain words and phrases are used? 
 Again, I really wish this series wasn't published by a children's publisher. This series is on the shelf at my kids' middle school, and the content is way too graphic for a twelve year old. Maas' smutty scenes are so melodramatic and overwritten and awkward that I don't even know why they're there. Her romances would benefit from a "less is more" approach.