u/Born_Plenty_5923

spoiler for the whole series of acotar and mild ones based on plot and character writing for tog series.

Okay, I love acotar series, but as I have recently read tog and it's still fresh in my mind, I kinda love both of them equally now but I feel acotar had way more plot inconsistences.

Tog did such a good job in writing a character in a consistent way. We know who Aelin is, what she does and what her motivations and where her morals lies and we ​know that about every character. We see their learning arcs, growth, and they don't change so drastically between books. What they are at their core stay the some. They don't say one thing or feel one thing and do another thing entirely.

But in acotar, I recognised this ​inconsistency in mainly Feyre and Tamlin secondly. I think that Rhys and the inner circle were always morally gray and only when Feyre got close to them and in their circle, she started liking them and even though their gray side wasn't shown much in her perspective, I think it was always there.

But for Feyre to be described as good one second and a monster another second in the ourobouros mirror is contradictory. And I felt a lot of contradictory behaviour in her character. It feels like I have no idea who she is as I have started rereading the series. ​​​​​I've come to accept that it's normal now and just started to go with the flow but even Nesta's character was really well written than Feyre's. We knew who Nesta was, what she valued and what trauma she was facing but Feyre's narrative fell flat as she always kinda blamed it on external things (as she should because yeah, her trauma is valid) but also with that, there is a level of self reflection required for a character to have nuance and depth and I didn't see that in feyre through the whole books because it was so contradictory all the time, I couldn't decide on what's her personality is and what she values.

I​ liked Nesta's book tho, even loved it but yeah, I just wanted to share it because I wanted to know your thoughts on it. ​

"Rhys had agreed that the soldiers who attacked were likely the Autumn Court soldiers who had gone missing, but how they had ended up in the Bog of Oorid … Well, that was what they intended to uncover. Rhys had tried to get into their heads, but found nothing but fog and mist."

This was in acosf, I searched for it in the 37th chapter because every sub I read, there was some or the other mention of them torturing Autumn court soldiers even though Rhys can get into their minds. Well, he tried and he couldn't see anything. I think this clears it up!

I wanna hear y'all thoughts about this so feel free to share it ⭐✨!​