u/igniscveli

I've been rereading ACOTAR and I just want to rant and maybe get some different perspectives from others on something that's been bothering me.

I believe MAF was a bit too fast paced in terms of Feysand's relationship and Feyre becoming HL. It didn't really struck in my last rereads that by chapter 54 it's been only a couple of months since Feyre left Tamlin and the SC.

By the beginning of MAF it's been a year of Feyre living in the SC and having a relationship with Tamlin (even though they fell in love months before that). Then it's not even half a year later that she falls in love then gets with Rhysand and becomes HL of the NC.

Now don't get me wrong. I love Feyre (like she's my favorite character), I love Rhysand, I love their relationship and I love the IC.
But it's just too fast to build the easy going, open relationship they have after chapter 54. It's definitely way too fast to have her now be authoritative towards the IC by beginning WAR when she was still trying to build a friendship with most of them.

I feel like her and Rhysand getting together would have hit differently (and maybe even better) if it happened in WAR. I would have loved to see them spend the rest of MAF in a physical relationship, like Feyre wanted at that inn. Feyre coming back in WAR after being taken to the SC would have been the moment to have those confessions of chapter 54 happen. Then her becoming HL could have happened after, half of WAR would have been good to set her up as a leader (especially as they were in a time of war).

This is just me doing some thinking in how this could have been done more progressively, as it's just them getting together in chapter 54 and then her becoming HL at the end of MAF that kind of bothers me. It's definitely not them getting together at all or Feyre becoming HL generally.

I would definitely appreciate receiving a different perspective on this, or even just see that someone else feels this way and it's not me entering psychosis because of the constant smear campaign against Feysand and the IC. 💀

I read ACOTAR for the first time in 2021, after the publishing of ACOSF. By the time I started receiving posts on social media regarding these books, this fandom seemed to have lost it. For the last few years it has only gotten worse.

My problem is that I've never actually understood where it comes from. I genuinely feel like I read some special edition copies because some perspectives and arguments actually sound so disassociated. Like I am aware we all read and understand this series differently (and I am definitely not here to claim my way is the better way) but I feel sometimes that a lot of people just read very... shallowly. Especially those who have picked their sides, which appear to be IC vs. Nesta, as they twist the narrative to support their own side.

So I wanna talk. As someone who believes picking a side is not necessary and simply loves all characters:

Why do you say Feyre is boring and call her a Mary Sue? Why do you think Rhysand is a bad High Lord and the villain? Why do you hate Feysand since ACOSF? Hell, why do you hate everyone but Nesta and the Valkyries since ACOSF?

Etc, etc, etc.