Full review on my blog What's On My Bookshelf? 
 This year I have gotten so much harder to please when giving star ratings. So far, this is the only book that has gotten 5 STARS! 
 Not because it is utter perfection, because it isn't, but because it made me feel empathy for the characters and their believable personalities. Yes, there are parts I wish I could change or would have pleased the readers more, but Sarah wrote it the way things happened. Not to her liking, but in the direction and manner the story was meant to move. Feyre has SO much more character development for one. She is no longer just a human absolutely and devastatingly in love with a High Fae Lord. She has scars and emotional trauma after her weeks Under The Mountain with Amarantha, that refuse to stop haunting her. Other characters, Rhysand, Tamlin and new characters, are also shown in a different light, showing what the really are like. 
 For example, (view spoiler)[ Rhysand and Feyre being mates? I really needed that. Like I felt fulfilled in my soul. Tamlin really was smothering and obsessive almost with Feyre since the first book, as Rhysand points out to her. Her stood by and let Amarantha do so many atrocious things to her and never even tries to secretly help her or send someone to help her. And how he treats her at the beginning of the book? He was so utterly full of himself and cruel to ignore her pleas so blatantly! She was literally panicking and depressed and wasting away and dying from guilt and hatred towards herself and he was blind to that. Worse, he thought he knew what was best, but he never even listened to her. A topic for another day. (hide spoiler)] 
 Sarah really created another universe and realm that fits perfectly within itself. The ending had me agonizing. Feyre is always having to sacrifice herself and the conclusion of this book was no different. Waiting anxiously for the third book!