u/Witty_Error_1877

I've read Harry Potter, LOTR, GoT, His Dark Materials, The Hunger Games etc multiple times and love them all.

My girlfriend recommended ACOTAR to me and I was hooked on it from the start and it's a new favourite of mine. I know it has its flaws (Mors truth powers?) But I really enjoy the world and it's characters.

She said that Throne of Glass is the best series she has ever read, is very excited that I'm reading it and that she is "jealous " that I get to read it for the first time.

I really want to like it for her but so far it seems really boring, am I missing something?

I've read TOG, COM, HOR and I'm 120 pages into QOS.

Nothing ever seems to happen and the few things that do take 400+ pages to do so. I have read 1,400 ish pages - probably more than the Hobbit and LOTR combined and the war still hasn't even started yet??

It's not even world building, it's just empty pages of Mass seemingly typing but not talking about anything. After more than LOTR in pages, not all that much about this world is known.

The main character is a total Mary Sue. She comes out of Endovier after a year as the world's best assassin. That means she was 17 when she went to prison. Given its a social media free world, her ability to be known as the best assassin has to be built over years. So we have a 14 year old girl who can beat grown men hand to hand?? With magic locked? It just reads like girl power and she reminds me of Rey from Star Wars.

People like Feyre and Katniss Eveedeen at least had a realistic skill set to augment their ability to survive before later gaining magic/strength in Feyres case.

In Wendlyn she can't do magic until all of a sudden she is Beron.

Everyone from Terrasen, Wendlyn and Doreanelle are related making a too convoluted family tree.

The slow drip feed of details regarding her betrayal leading to imprisonment has dragged on too long and I no longer care about it at all.

Manon? Please do something either relevant or interesting soon!

120 pages into QOS and so far Celana has trashed a pub (off screen!!) and that's about it.

I really want to like this series as my girlfriend was so excited that I was starting it but what am I missing?

I've seen so many people say it's the best series ever and online reactions of people crying when they finish it.

Is there light at the end of this tunnel?

Is Crescent City better?

Allowing/supporting set up changes between practice and qualifying/sprint qualifying after having a good balance/feeling/pace in practice and then it's terrible in qualifying.

A set up change that critically cannot be tested in real life before qualifying.

This seems to have been happening since 2024.

Abbi seems very down after all her recent DNFs.

This could easily be her last year in single seaters, it would be good to see her end on a high with point scoring finishes to the end, no more bad luck, and another win.

Hello, I recently finished ACOTAR which I loved from the first chapter and posted my thoughts here - https://www.reddit.com/r/acotar/s/ALU2WaxlkF (this link has ACOTAR spoilers)

I'm currently trying TOG but it feels like a massive step down from ACOTAR to me.

The whole of book 1 and 2 felt like world building to me.

I've just passed the page 100 mark in book 3 and feel like I'm still waiting for the story to begin.

The characters don't feel as engaging to me so far.

Past page 100 of book 3 of ACOTAR is obviously a VERY different prospect.

For anyone who has read them both, does it eventually reach ACOTAR level?

(Please don't post spoilers, just opinions on how good it gets and when).

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I have recently read the whole series for the first time and loved it, especially books 1-3. It fit into that category of books that you cannot put down. I was instantly absorbed into the series from the opening pages of book 1 and it just became more and more.

(I'm only on book 2 of Throne of Glass and have not started Crescent City yet)

I really enjoy the concept that the powers of the inhabitants of prythian are linked to what courts they are born into and that the magic becomes stronger, the closer an individual is to the ruling family of each court.

Lucien was instantly my favourite character in book1 and remained so through out. It seems to me like he also has the most potential for further storylines and progression and I hope Maas chooses to do so as he has a foot in nearly every camp. He was/is 2nd in command at the Spring Court, he grew up in the Autumn Court and is related to all the sons of Beron, he works openly for the Night Court, he is mated to Elaine, he is secretly the son of the high lord of the Day Court and he is part of the Band of Exiles which should link nicely in to the Koschei storyline. He also has the day court powers to explore learning (assuming he doesn't secretly have control over them already)

I really liked Tamlin on Book1 and of course went off him in a big way in book 2 and the start of book3. I love the moment though when he bursts into the meeting of the high lords and grins at them like a wolf.

That said there are some inconsistencies in the world and it's magic system for me and a lot of them stem from Mor. "The Morrigan" was a big part of the war 500 years previously and her name is feared, yet she cannot fight in the battles for some reason unless its isolated skirmishes. Her power is "truth" (not very scary on a battlefield) yet they still don't really know If they can trust Lucien - or for that matter Tamlin when he appears at the high lords meeting - despite the fact she can shoot her truth stare at him? Also the House of Wind can only be accessed by those with wings or those carried by them, but Mor can winnow above the shield and fall to the ground with no problems. Surely all those who can Winnow (Lucien) could do this without awkwardly being carried.

I'm fairly sure that the shadow that More saw in book 4 was Bryaxis.

I would like to see a bit more "spring specific" magic.

Why hasn't Eris ever mentioned the deal that If the Autumn Court fought in the war then the Night Court would assassinate Beron?

The sex scenes in books 1-4 I found tastefully done and in the right amount, in book 5 it was far too often and way over the top, I found they kept interrupting the momentum off the actual storyline.

I absolutely loved the final battle of book 3, especially the moment the Weaver, Bone Carver and Bryaxis appear in front of the good guys army - that was awesome.

I'm looking forward to the next book and Throne of Glass and Crescent City.

By the way, are there any other male readers here? I'm intrigued to know how much of the reading audience is male.