Started reading 5/6/17: I'm just gonna be 100% honest here... I wasn't super thrilled about starting ACOWAR like everyone else. I lost a little enthusiasm for SJM's books after ACOMAF and EoS (see reviews for those details) so I wanted to complete this story of Feyre and Rhysand but basically to finish it and not because I'm super excited. I do love the Inner Court though. 
 Initial Impressions 5/12/17 and full review as originally posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide 5/15/17: This read went pretty much about how I thought it would. I used to LOVE Sarah J. Maas books and I had a really hard time with the pacing and characters ever since A COURT OF MIST AND FURY and EMPIRE OF STORMS. I was wholly sucked into QUEEN OF SHADOWS and ever since then, I lost the magic. I feel like the books arenaEUR(tm)t well-edited anymore and Sarah J. Maas is so big that she is allowed the freedom to write whatever she wants and things donaEUR(tm)t get pared down when they should. IaEUR(tm)m not saying that actually is the case but thataEUR(tm)s how it feels sometimes. IaEUR(tm)m totally okay with books being long, especially series finales like A COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN, but there were several parts that could have been cut down and a lot of things in the past two books in this series could have used a fair bit of editing, from pacing to structure to dialogue. I felt very alone in these opinions with ACOMAF but it seems like this happened a little bit more with ACOWAR which actually surprised me, but IaEUR(tm)m glad that I wasnaEUR(tm)t alone in that feeling!