“Nesta and Elain were meant to be the evil stepsisters”
This take often pops up when there are discussions about “how awful Nesta and Elain are in book one” and as a way to prove that their actions should in no way be excused or justified because SJM had set them up to be the tropy-evil-stepsisters and changed her mind in MaF...
And it drives me absolutely INSANE
I believe this take stems from a tweet of SJM herself so yeah, it does have some truth in it but for sure not in the way people are using it. If SJM had changed her mind, she did so while still writing book one, otherwise she would have not written chapters 30-31 where Feyre and her sisters left off in a very good place. She also would not have written all the positive things Feyre thought about Nesta after those chapters
I know we all go on and on about the many plot holes of this series but I find it hard to believe that this is one and that SJM just changed her mind in the middle of it and did not revise the book or switch things up before publishing it. I’d go even as far as to consider TaR the book with the least amount of plotholes (likely because it is the first book) or where at least the inconsistencies make sense (for example Feyre’e thoughts about her father coming to rescue her and Nesta enjoying her gone being false gave more importance to Nesta going to look for her)
If anything SJM changed her mind in MaF where she retconned a bunch of stuff, had Feyre not want to invite her sisters to her wedding, badmouth them to strangers and had their reunion be cold and so unlike those previously written chapters
I just had to get this out 😩