#a court of silver flames spoilers

[louisapennyfeather2021]

Sarah J Maas: Don't worry guys! Azriel has a mate! You'll see!

Us: Can you give us a hint?

SJM: Sure! His mate has red hair :)

Us: ... Sarah, that leaves us with Gwyn, Eris, and Bryce...

SJM: Oh, sorry! His mate is super badass :)

Us: ... Okay, that MIGHT rule out Eris, but even then it still leaves Gwyn and Bryce...

SJM: Azriel's mate can be a little trouble maker sometimes :)

Us: And now we're back to Gwyn, Eris, and Bryce :|

SJM: All of my readers have mixed feelings about this character :)

Us:

(NOT my GIF)

(This is a joke, nothing has been confirmed)

#sarah j maas #crescent city spoilers #acotar spoilers #a court of thorns and roses spoilers #acosf spoilers #a court of silver flames spoilers #house of sky and breath spoilers #house of sky and breath #azriel #eris vanserra #gwyneth berdara #bryce quinlan #not my gif #Sarah really gave us this line up #all three of these characters are front runners to be Azriel's mate #Lucien would be in the line up if him and Elain weren't alrwady mates #azris #gwynriel #bryce x azriel #no hate to elriel shippers #it's just funny that 3 of Azriel's possible love interests could pass as siblings

[animezinglife]

Viviane's pregnant, too?!

NYXIE IS GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE FRIEND HIS OWN AGE IN ANOTHER COURT!!!

#GOOD FOR VIV AND KAL #a court of silver flames #acosf spoilers #acosf #a court of silver flames spoilers #kallias x viviane

[zhongli-lover-69]

so, i'm currently reading a court of silver flames. which, considering that it's a part of the acotar series, i really should have expected the severe amount of fucking. but. feyre's sexcapades never went on for half as many pages as nesta and cassian's straight-up porn. i feel like half this book is just straight sex in excruciating detail. which, if you're looking for a solidly lengthy porn with plot novel, great! unfortunately, i read these books for the cheesy plots and generally kinda skim the porn parts. which is really kind of annoying in this one, because i really love nesta and cassian. i really like nesta's character development, and cassian is the most fun character in the series (imo). but every time we get some good emotional development, i get absolutely BLINDSIDED with some sudden fucking. oh, conversation with friends? thinking abt rawdogging nesta last night. trouncing through an extremely fucking dangerous prison? thinking abt rawdogging nesta last night. literally about to fucking die? thinking about- you get the gist.

like. i understand that they're horny, ok, ok, whatever. but it gets more than a bit grating when nesta can't keep her mind of cassian's magical fae man meat (and vice versa) for long enough to have a serious conversation -- or just to get through a scene! it's giving me constant emotional whiplash. and as someone who cares Significantly more about the story (this is book five!! there's a decent amount of irons in the fire by now!!) than the position in which nesta is getting railed tonight, it feels annoying and unbalanced and it makes it difficult to take the plot seriously.

like. as cheesy as the first three books are, at least feyre and rhysand had the decency to separate their serious moments from their sarah j maas wing kink fulfillment moments. the serious parts were serious, and the romantic parts were romantic, and the sex scenes were placed in ways that made sense. it Flowed. and a court of silver flames Very Much Does Not. i keep feeling like i'm being jumpscared by random smut that does not match the tone at all, and it's really taking me out of the story.

honestly though, the "lack of a porn/plot balance" thing is just one of my small multitude of grievances. my other annoyances:

1. how gwyn and emerie feel like undeveloped props for nesta's character development. they are, essentially, traumatized girl 1 and traumatized girl 2, and befriending and training with them gives nesta the support she needs to become the Ridiculously Overpowered Girlboss that all sarah j maas characters inevitably become. it's a disservice to gwyn and emerie, imo. like, i understand that they're side characters, but it also feels like their importance to the plot begins and ends with their trauma.

2. feyre. reading about feyre from a non-feyee and non-rhysand point of view really makes her sheer overpoweredness apparent. she is so Magical and Special and Created from the Power of the Other High Lords and No One Else has Ever Had This Power, Her Potential Is Unquestionably Immense etc etc etc whatever whatever whatever. shut the fuck up. she feels like a mary sue -- which, again, i think is a sarah j maas protagonist thing. her only limitations are her own mind, but it was only by finding someone who truly appreciated her power that she could harness it. throws up. she's the crowning jewel of rhys' band of special little strangely overpowered idiots. again, i think this bothers me because it's a balance thing -- the night court is so cool and unique, but there are pretty much no other characters who have equivalent innate skill. only the good guys get cool fancy insanely unique powers. side characters + members of other courts (aside from a few of the high lords) get the dregs.

3. "male" and "female" instead of man and woman. makes me violently cringe. honestly, it's just another sign that this series is basically just abo for people who are into wings + magic powers instead of doggy dicks. they even have the SMELLING AROUSAL thing. like stfu!!!! this is so tmi!!!!! keep it in your pants or in your noses or whatever !!!!!!

4. the target audience has changed halfway through the series. see. first three books? cheesy, but i like the plot. they're melodramatic and magicky and overdone. i enjoy them. this book? it continues the plot, which i am casually invested in at this point, but it kills my immersion with the sudden smut. i think smut should be used like seasoning. take salt, for example. first three acotar books? a sprinkle. most of the fanfic i've read that builds up to a relationship? a few shakes. a court of silver flames? half the goddamn shaker. sodium overload. can taste naught but the salt (hehehe you see what i did there...). but. back to my main point. this is a departure from the previous books, and i am no longer the target audience. i read this book with none of the mildly obsessive zeal with which i read acotar, which i find quite disappointing. perhaps i'd care more sarah j maas spent less time writing immortals banging 20-year-old women and more time giving me a reason to like these characters.

5. and, last but not least, where tf is mor. she has always felt like one of those requires diversity characters to me (she offhandedly drops being bisexual in the third book, i think, and the building tension between her and one of the male characters evaporates with no explanation). and, this is the first real opportunity we get to spend more time with her now that she is suddenly a womanliker. naturally, sarah j maas ships her off to the continent and we don't get neither hide nor hair of her. i had already suspected that the bisexual part had been added in just to check that LGBTQ+ representation box, but this kind of confirms it for me. is it really rep if the token character gets shunted offstage at the first opportunity. and, even more, nesta's story was the perfect for mor, considering that she is one of acotar's token trauma girlies, and that nesta has made it her purpose to collect all trauma girlies she finds.

in short, this book kind of pisses me off, and i really just wanted to put my frustrations with it into writing. i hope the last 25% of it is more streamlined and interesting than the first 75%.

#just my extended complaining #i own so many sarah j maas books and yet i have so many qualms with literally all of them #i do hope nesta's story develops in an interesting direction though #reason i'm so frustrated is because i really really like her as a character #anyway... #a court of silver flames #a court of silver flames spoilers #anti acosf #nesta deserves better

[joellesolo]

#a court of silver flames spoilers #acosf #a court of silver flames #acosf spoilers #nesta archeron #house of wind #acosf memes #memes #sarah j maas

[stephkb]

so i’m new to the fandom and just finished the acotar series for the first time. i’m sad feyre’s whole pregnancy/birth wasn’t in her or rhys’s POV. i read the barnes and noble bonus scene of them finding out but i feel like if it had been in one of feyre’s books it would’ve been written much better. and all the pregnancy fluff we missed?? why were we robbed 😭

#acotar #a court of silver flames #a court of silver flames spoilers #feyre archeron #rhysand #feysand #SJM

[brightbeautifulthings]

Death watched him. But Death had walked beside him every day of his life. So Cassian stroked his thumb along her palm and said, 'Hello, Nes.'

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

#sarah j maas #a court of silver flames #spoilers #a court of silver flames spoilers #acosf spoilers #nessian #nesta archeron #cassian #nesta #death #book quotes #books

[thehighqueenofhiraeth]

nes… and cass… this book is going to kill me and THEY are going to kill me

#nesta archeron #cassian acosf #nessian #acosf #a court of silver flames #a court of silver flames spoilers #acosf spoilers

[cheap-spirits]

“The high priestess walked onto the stone platform and raised her hands above her head. The folds of her midnight blue gossamer robe fell around her, and her white hair was long and unbound. An eight pointed star was tattooed on her brow in a shade of blue that matched her gown. Its sharp lines extending to her hairline.

“Welcome all and may the blessings of the goddess and all her gods be upon you”

- chapter 38 of Throne of Glass

(if anyone has the page number be a legend and lmk im listening to the audiobook for this) ((yes i paused after every sentence to get this right if its not the exact quote please dont yell at me im trying my best here)

BIG ASS SLEEPY RAMBLE UNDER THE CUT WITH SPOILERS FOR ALL SJM BOOKS

Uhhhhh 8 pointed star, blue priestess robes AND a goddess figure that has been described earlier as coming to this world through the wyrd to shape it. (Also possibly had been referred to as the mother but again sleepy and audiobook)

So this is the yulemas ceremony in the first tog book, iconic scene, buuut ive never seen anyone bring up this exact description before. Now i know its easy to just make connections out of nothing and who knows sjm might just really like 8 pointed stars and the colour blue but i kinda really hope that now tog and cc are confirmed to be connected (the og shifter world AND lidias heritage) that there will be more development.

Caaaaauuuuuuuse i want to know if the valg were asteri or if they were like diet asteri, i want to know how the mother connects these three worlds cause it absolutely is the mother that is mentioned as the goddess cause who the fuck else is it??? Most of the other gods and goddesses are mentioned by name and are actually from a different world (i also want to know more about that, what world did they come from are THEY the asteri????) i want to know more about the 8 pointed stars and how it fits into the tog world, we know the sisters both made the stars in cc and acotar worlds respectively but HOW DID IT GET TO THE TOG WORLD??? I want to know more about world walking, it was mentioned in lidias exposition dump about her lineage so that makes me think that aelin mastered it somehow and taught her descendants and lidia is a descendant but that also raises questions cause if i remember correctly (and im tired so im probably not please feel free to correct me) aelin closed all the connections to other worlds but then bryce was able to open a portal to prythian. BUT theres also the thought that lidia is from a different branch of aelins family tree that split off at an earlier point in time, but they also wouldve had to master world walking for it to be passed down in knowledge to lidia. (I personally think lidia is aelins descendant cause she gave the ring to the twins that is the ring aelin picked out i think….lot of potential misremembering here but i think the ring aelin picked was an emerald and i think thats the ring she gave the twins) I also want more information about the barrowhite becoming the underking, like how the fuck did they end up in CC and how the fuck did they end up in such a power position and just what??? ALSO the witches??? How are they so different in TOG and CC??? Unless theyre from different worlds but like where did the cc witches come from? Did they come from the ACOTAR world?? But still the description of the witches in acotar is so different to the cc witches and i just need more information. SJM please help i need more information i am begging im going insane i need MORE LORE!!!!

idk its all very confusing i really need to start taking notes when i read these books cause either im a dumbass and can’t remember or understand what happened or sjm has rewrote history and logic and honestly both could be true simultaneously. There’s probably more but like i said i sleepy and i have so much uni work to do and im on the first book, thank you for reading this if you got to the end, think i might crack out the conspiracy board over summer as a way to cope with finishing uni forever and becoming a real adult. ALSO if you read this please gimme your thoughts and questions to add to the conspiracy board that i absolutely will make but may just end up being in a sketchbook cause i have hundreds of them and boards are expensive

Oh also i think the single goddess figure with other gods below her is only mentioned in this book, i could be wrong (again i can only apologise i am ✨tired✨) but it had also been mentioned a few times in the og tog book

#big ramble #SPOILERS #throne of glass spoilers #a court of thorns and roses spoilers #acotar spoilers #a court of silver flames spoilers #acosf spoilers #crescent city spoilers #HOEAB SPOILERS #sjm spoilers #sjm theory #tog spoilers #tog theory #acotar theory #cc theories

[rainingriversofyou]

There was only one thing that Bryce Quinlan would describe her as: “A warrior.”

-House of Flame and Shadow

Art by Jodi McCafferty / jodicreatesartwork

#bryce quinlan #nesta archeron #crescent city #sjm #sjmaas #cc hofas #cc3 #cc3 spoilers #hofas #hofas bonus chapter #house of flame and shadow #sjm universe #sjm multiverse #sjm fandom #sjm books #sjmass #sarah j maas #a court of silver flames #acosf #book art #fanart

[louisapennyfeather2021]

I don't think people realize just how similar Elain and Lucien are.

They are both distinctly different in behavior and appearance compared to their other siblings. Lucien has brown skin next to his pale skinned brothers. Elain has brown eyes and a smaller body next to her blue eyed sisters. Lucien is sweet, good natured, diplomatic, and warm hearted next to his cruel, cold, troublesome brothers. Elain is innocent, quiet, and pliant next to her headstrong, confident, and vocal sisters.[this observation is based on how other character view both Lucien and Elain]

By extension, both Lucien and Elain are viewed as harmless and not worthy of concern. Lucien is dismissed by his brothers and only a concern when it comes to the ascension of the Autumn throne. Elain is dismissed by her sisters and the entire Night Court and only a concern when her magic is being used or suspected to be used.

Both Lucien and Elain struggle to find a forever home. They are both kicked out of their first home. Lucien exiled from the Autumn Court and Elain from her parent's home when they lose their money. Lucien is then not accepted in Spring because he feels like choosing Feyre and the Night Court is the only way to ever have a chance with his mate. Elain is not accepted in the human lands because she is forced to be fae and she has to stay in the Night Court because her only family is there. Lucien and Elain both feel out of place and uncomfortable in the Night Court. Neither of them can acclimate to the Night Court like everyone else.

Both Lucien and Elain have lost their first love due to circumstances out of their control. Lucien lost Jesminda to his father and brothers. He was held down and forced to watch her be tortured and killed with no way to possibly change the outcome. Elain lost Grayson to the Cauldron and the fear of faeries. Grayson was raised to fear and hate fae. Elain became the very thing Grayson despised most. She couldn't control how his love for her disappeared. She lost him and couldn't possibly fight to get him back.

Both of them have powers they don't understand completely. Lucien is unaware of his Day magic or he at least doesn't understand where the magic comes from, so he can't fully indulge in the magic. Elain seems to refuse to acknowledge her magic unless it forces her to acknowledge it.

Both of them are victims to circumstance. They are both reliant on Feyre and Rhysand to provide them a home. Lucien is reliant on Feyre's friendship and her tolerance of him trying to get to know Elain if he wants hope of ever seeing Elain. Elain is reliant on Feyre and Rhysand's charity to continue living in the only part of Prythian that is even remotely comfortable for her to exist in.

It doesn't mean they HAVE to be together. It just means that they really aren't that different. They have experienced many of the same losses. They are equals in some very unique ways aside from their magic and strengths. It's interesting to see how they mirror each other, but also how they balance each other with their differences which is what many people focus on when discussing these two together.

Idk, I just think these are cool details.

#a court of silver flames spoilers #a court of wings and ruin spoilers #acosf #acowar #a court of silver flames #a court of wings and ruin #elain archeron #lucien vanserra #elucien #a court of thorns and roses #acotar #sarah j maas

[animezinglife]

Soooo...we can cut Cassian open and have his guts spilling out on a battlefield with literally shoving them back in and some patching, but we can't do a C-section?

#...make it make sense please #acosf spoilers #a court of silver flames #a court of silver flames spoilers #who am I kidding? #even in fantasy women's health is a barbaric dumpster fire stuck in the dark ages

[unhealthyfanobsession]

Ember telling Nesta that she will find her way just breaks my fucking heart because the first half of the book is all Nesta in her element, doing as she pleases with her bestie Azriel, still doing what’s in the best interest of her family and just truly being her absolute best self and then the SECOND she’s back in the IC dynamic Ember is just watching her get berated for making a decision that we all know Feyre would also make. Like clearly Nesta expressed to Ember her turmoil over all of this and it makes me want to hug her and also slap Cassian.

It’s so tragic to see the dichotomy in one book of Nesta at her absolute best killing a fucking Asteri and then she goes HOME and … that …

I just … I have to dream that there’s something else for Nesta. A real home. Real acceptance.

#nessian #nesta archeron #hofas #hofas spoilers #acosf #cassian #sarah j maas #a court of thorns and roses #nesta and cassian #a court of silver flames #nesta archeron supremacy

[acomaflove]

Meanwhile, in the murky depths of some underground tunnels:

Wondering how Nesta kept a straight face honestly.

#hofas spoilers #house of flame and shadow spoilers #house of flame and shadow #crescent city #bryce quinlan #bryce danaan #acomaf #acotar #sarah j maas #acotar fandom #rhysand #feysand #feyre archeron #a court of mist and fury #a court of thorns and roses #feyre #azriel #nesta archeron #nesta #night court #fantasy books #book boyfriends #new adult books #book meme #acowar #acosf #a court of silver flames #a court of wings and ruin #acotar series #romance books

[brightbeautifulthings]

The world was beautiful, and she was so grateful to be in it. To be alive, to be here, to see this. She stuck out a hand over the railing, grazing a star as it shot past, and her fingers came away glowing with blue and green dust. She laughed, a sound of pure joy, and she cried more, because that joy was a miracle.

Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

#spoilers #a court of silver flames spoilers #acosf spoilers #nesta archeron #a court of silver flames #sarah j maas #healing #book quotes #books

[thehighqueenofhiraeth]

THE BLOOD RITE?? OOOOOOH ITS GOING DOWN

#acosf spoilers #a court of silver flames spoilers #acosf #a court of silver flames #acotar series #nesta archeron

[the-darkestminds]

You know what I wanna see in Azriel’s book? A major emotional breakdown in which he openly cries his heart out. This man is stoic and angry and so closed off, even among friends. I’m begging him to show us even a sliver of vulnerability. Azriel, my guy, you can cry if you need to.

#have we ever seen him express sadness? #I feel like he only has two moods #amused #and filled with icy rage #the most vulnerability we saw from him was in the HOFAS bonus chapter in my opinion #when he apologizes to nesta #and when he hugs her and says thank the mother #I need more!!! #I want him to cry #please give us something azzy #sarah j maas #hofas spoilers #sjm #acowar #azriel #acomaf #acotar #a court of wings and ruin #a court of mist and fury #a court of thorns and roses #a court of frost and starlight #a court of silver flames #acosf #acofas #azriel acotar #gwynriel #pro gwynriel #azriel x gwyn #gwyn x azriel