r/acotar_rant

I feel I'm going to make some people mad. That's not my intention. Truly. This is just an observation regarding the new ACOTAR books. No offense to everyone reading all three series to prepare for ACOTAR 6, but it would be really funny if no one from other two series showed up in either ACOTAR 6 or 7. Or if they did, it would only be for a brief moment. We are talking about 16 books here, in total sum, including ACOTAR. The amount of information people will get from reading other two series is way too much to be fully addressed in the new ACOTAR books, when they come out. Despite the cameos and some new infos, here and there, CC3 was still Bryce's story, and I feel the same will happen with new ACOTAR books. Obviously, you can do whatever you like. Not saying, what you do is wrong. I wish you all to enjoy every bit of your reads. Truly. And, it's a different thing altogether if you're reading all these books for pleasure of emerging yourself in Maas' characters and understanding the potential connections. But making it a monthly task, you must accomplish before the release, especially of the first book, seems a bit too much.

Like, it's all explained in ACOWAR. He's a double-agent, and without him the war would've been lost on multiple counts (he was the one who forced Beron to fight, he was the one who found out about the Faebane caches so an antidote could be made).

Like, I'll admit, there are reasons to hate him (though as a Tam-stan I'll point out that these reasons are applicable to anyone in these books, with Tamlin's own actions being far more reasonable), but people keep saying Tamlin sided with Hybern like they just forgot everything in ACOWAR that wasn't Rhys and Feyre.

Wait, did they?

Ok so my problem isn’t really with Nesta, as towards the end of SF I started liking her. My problem is the people who stand 10 toes behind her and thinks she can do and has done no wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a diehard Rhys stan but people always point out the way he treats her especially during her intervention and like can you actually blame him?? She was pretty hateful books 3-5, yes she had her reasons and I do see a lot of Nesta in myself but people act like the IC should have been completely ok with her treating everyone like absolute shit while simultaneously demanding her rent paid and drink bill paid for. This isn’t an attack on her character as like I said I can relate to her in many ways and I’ve grown to like her, more so on the people are just ignore how cunty she actually was lol

I question the intentions behind a lot of rhysand’s actions. Here are some questions I need answered and would ask if I could interview him. If you need to ask anymore questions, please add them! I’d love to hear them. SPOILERS up through ACOMAF!!!!

1. Rhysand, why did you never voluntarily release feyre from the bargain? She begged you to break it and even after you were mated you never chose to free her from it. Weird. In fact, it was Tamlin who went to the ends of the earth to break feyre free from that bargain that she begged to be free from…

2. Rhysand, why did you choose to stay behind at the Illyrian camps instead of meeting your mother and sister at the meeting spot you KNEW they were going to and expecting you to arrive at? Also, why did you bother to divulge this info to anyone at all?

3. Rhysand, why did you tell feyre you didn’t want to bring the members of your IC to the party Amarantha held because you didn’t want them to witness what you were to do Amarantha? This is the same IC you waged war with, fought along side of, even razed an entire village with. Even after Amarantha was killed, you and members of your IC gleefully hunted down any Illyrians who had sided with her. Weird you wouldn’t want them there . Weird. Strange. I smell bullshit. I smell a complete made up excuse.

4. Why are you so obsessed with Tamlin? You continue to compare yourself to him , think about him and go talk to him any chance you get. You seem to feel inferior to him and need to go prove yourself better than him. The obsession is weird. Why are you and Amarantha obsessed with Tamlin???

At this point do we even know that the book is still releasing in October...? Is it getting pushed back? Where is the synopsis? Where is the advertising? Idk. And I don't even think they know.

But felt good to take my measly $22 from Bloomsbury. That'll show em. 💀

Why does Rhys threaten Azriel to stay away from Elain when she clearly reciprocated feeling and he once told Feyre that it’s up to Elain to reject the bond (it’s allowed in Night Court)?

Did SJM forget what she wrote or am I missing sth? Because it feels like in bonus chapter Rhys m thinks Lucien is entitled to Elain because of the mating bond and also political tension, but still, he contradicts himself.

This is purely a joke opinion but also what I truly believe. Like, Feyre thinks Rhysand's the hottest because of the mating bond (I'll admit, he's probably attractive like literally every Fae in this book, but still), but literally all the evidence points to Tamlin being hotter. I'm turning off reply notifications since I'm uninterested in arguing, but just wanted to get this out there, lmao.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I only see 2 options by now:

A) SJM fell in love with Rhys and wrote the most TOXIC series ever.

or (and may it be this one)

B) we're all dumbasses and SJM is planning something big on ACOTAR 6, 7 and 8.

I know it's dumb but I'm out of hope, please let me know your thoughts.

I am just reading crescent city , and read these lines when Bryce says below **spoilers**
Alphahole. Possessive and aggressive.” She waved a hand at his bare torso. “You know—you males who rip your shirt off at the slightest provocation, who know how to kill people in twenty different ways, who have females falling over themselves to be with you; and when you finally bang one, you go full-on mating-frenzy with her, refusing to let another male look at or talk to her, deciding what and when she needs to eat, what she should wear, when she sees her friends—”

is the author making fun of Cassian deliberately? or is it just me who got reminded of Cass in this scene. the next one about Rhys where the said alphaholes have baby , its funny 🤣

Is it weird that i get the vibe that sarah projects herself into these books.

With how toxic the main characters are Rhys, feyre, nesta ect. Makes me wonder what she is like?

I have heard some not good things about her. Her fallout with susan dennard was definitely sus.

This contains spoilers from ACOSF

Okay, so I previously posted a rant on the beginning of Acosf, this is like a part 2 of that.

I was so so excited for Nesta And Cassian's book. Because they were like the most perfect couple in my eyes! The heat. The banter. The will-they-won't-they. It was crazy. And Cassian and Nesta's personalities click so fking well. So I was amped up about this book. But omfg. OMFG. What the actual f Was that. There were so many horrible things in that book, that at the end I hated Cassian. I USED TO LOVE HIM.

Starting from the beginning, when Nesta And Cassian finally started training. Or Cassian did while Nesta watched for the first couple days, there was this scene When Nesta, Cassian and Azriel were sitting at the table and eating dinner and Cassian and Nesta were arguing and she called Rhysand rude and awful or smth. And Cassian got so mad at her, that he told her this "Everyone fking hates you". Like WHAT? WHAT? So we all knew that Nesta And Cassian were mates. I mean it's pretty obvious. But he, her MATE. the supposed love of her life, her heart, soul everything. Someone who's supposed to be her person, defends Rhysand. Over Nesta??! That was really fked up. And it pissed me tf off.

Then, The second time Nesta was trying to climb down the 10,000 stairs, she fell. Super hard. As in if she were still human she would've died kinda fall. And the next day when she's still covered up in bruises and stuff Cassian casually mentions that he saw her falling. Yet made NO ATTEMPT TO HELP HER. during or afterwards. He actually saw it as some thing necessary for her to endure?!?!?! So that she doesn't try to climb down the stairs again. Do we have any idea how abusive that it??! And He is her MATE PEOPLE. MATE. not just her trainer. Not just her friend. Her. Soul fking mate. And even if he wasn't it's still fked up to not help her.

We get a couple more scenes where Cassian doesn't help Nesta And actually let's her just be abused by the IC. Because apparently a group of people who hate her (Except for Elaine and Feyre and maybe Cassian.) should be the ones deciding how she needs to live her life. Then when Nesta does the right thing by telling Feyre about the fact that her baby is going to kill her, (even though it should've come from a place of concern not anger) and Rhys looks at Cassian and tells him "Get Nesta out of here before I fkinf k!ll her" And insted of being damn angry at Rhysand for threatening the life of the woman her loves, Cassian goes and flies Nesta And Dumps her in the mountains. Where he Treaks with her. And He KNOWS that she's literally suc1dal at that point. That's how traumatized she is, and she's hurting. But he just lets her stew in it and doesn't even comfort her??! And he's actually ANGRY at her?!?! WHAT? WHAT LIKE WTF?

He lets a su1cidal person stew in self loathing, and hatred, and all those horrible emotions.

Then, it gets worse. She comes back. Shi is somehow sorted. (Even though they still somehow address nothing. And are still fk buddies. Even after everything. Even at this point.) Then she gets kidnapped. And insted of trying to help her somehow. Bro sits on his ass. And does. Nothing. No one from. The IC does anything. Now, I know the rules. I know that he couldn't have done anything. None of them could have. But where was the concern!? The panic? The yearning? What was that?? And okay. Fine. He panicked a little. (Not enough imo) but what about the rest of the IC. even Feyre?? They were all totally fine abt it. None of them showed even a shread of concern or panic. EVEN feyre. The sister who supposedly "loves" Nesta. Who trapped her in a tower "for her own good".

I may be missing a few things but whtv.

Not once. Not once during the entire book does Cassian properly say "I love you" to Nesta. Throughout the entire book. The two of them are nothing more than fk buddies. At all. And then towards the end. The literal last part SJM casually pushes in "oh btw Cassian and Nesta are mates." HUH? That should've been mentioned at the start. Where was the Yearning? The longing? The literally anything???!

I noticed, that whenever Nesta And Cassian got in a fight. Cassian always lashed out and said awful things to Nesta! ["Everyone hates you.", "at least you were a nice lay." (Not the exact quote, but along the lines of this), "I am Shackled to you."] And everytime. Every. Single. Time. Nesta apologised first. I'm not even sure if Cassian Ever apologised. Even if she was right, she hated herself and apologised out of guilt and self loathing.

Cassian, never tried to look at things through her perspective. He never tried to understand her at all.

Along with that, another thing I noticed was that All the massive major things he did, I mean all the awful stuff he did to Nesta, he never said sorry for it. They never even talked about it. At all. She never confronted him about it. He never addressed it. It was just shoved under the rug like SJM just wanted us to forget about it.

After all this entire shishow. The most dissapointing thing was the ending. Where Nesta gave up most of her powers for a sister who didn't care if she lived or died in the rite. we never even got to see Nesta try to master her powers or anything. She just gave them up at the end. And in the end she became this huge watered down version of herself. As though the original, real Nesta wasn't worthy of love or happiness. As though her anger was something that needed to be "watered down and fixed" insted of being acknowledged. I hated that part tye most. Although Cassian in the mountains treating Nesta (Su1cidal) like shi was a close second.

Again, this was just a massive rant. I totally understand if you disagree with me, but please give me logical points as to why. These are just that, MY opinions. And I'm pretty young so if I said something wrong, lmk.

I also really want to write about Feyre's pregnancy and how that was weird in a bunch of different ways but I've already written a lot here. I'll dedicate another post to that.

If you made it this far then Thank you for reading ts

When I first read the first three book of acotar i genuinely liked them and the characters. There seemed to be depth in The characters. and I was extremely excited for Nesta and Cassian’s book because cassian was my fav out of the three batboys after acowar and he had such GOOD chemistry with nesta I could feel the tension when they interacted. However, in silver flames SJM completely assassinated his character and his ENTIRE being was revolved around s3x and being a simp for rhysand and choosing him OVER his mate. I also hate how there were no details about his background and childhood except for one hurried chapter. Like a character like cassian had so much potential but SJM just nerfed him 😭😭

Also tell me why Eris and nesta had more tension and chemistry in one scene when they danced than cassian and nesta in the entire book

I’m almost done with a court of wings and ruin and I have to ask, what’s everyone’s opinion on Lucien and elain???? I can’t tell if it’s something I like or not. I see how she clings to Az but personally I don’t know if I see them working out. Also, why does everyone hate elain? I get she’s kind of weak and doing herself a disservice by not opening up/fighting but are we all forgetting when feyre went through her own struggles??????

Koshei is supposed to be the new villain in the story, but they are barely in it. why should i, as a reader, be scared for the characters safety and progress of the plot, when the characters hardly care or think of Koshei/the human queens.

Maas needs to fix this issue, because the characters have no real conflict except the ones they self inflict with their stupidity. I really wonder what the purpose will be to keep the plot going.

This is mostly a peace talk, alright. The attempt at connection of a Tamlin stan who hates both characters.

I wanted to ask this question, very innocently and non-aggressively, because I'm curious as to why Feysand stans enjoy Feyre and Rhysand so much.

Just to be clear, Rhysand and Tamlin are abusive when judged by real-life morals. Still, I'm a Tamlin stan through and through. I love his blond head and can always find some motives behind his actions, even if these actions hurt Feyre's feelings, which is why I'm always forgiving of him. But that's not the topic here.

For the life of me, I cannot find Rhys's motives at all. He's a pure enigma. Either he's morally good, or morally grey. But if he truly is morally grey, then I don't understand why the narrative constantly justifies his every bad action with good reasons. That's not how a morally grey character works.

There's a lot of other things I don't understand, like...

Why Rhys drugged, sexually touched, and degraded Feyre UTM to "help her forget the nightly horrors," even though his actions clearly weakened her. Why he twisted her broken arm, even though he could've healed it without ever demanding any bargain in return. Why he never apologized for the pain he inflicted on her. Why he didn't do anything against Amarantha for all these years.

Why Feyre had to prove to him she was a powerful Fae and a good mate by taking back his mother's ring in a dangerous test. Why Rhys didn't give Tarquin any choice and straight-up decided to steal from him, or why he didn't go with Feyre who almost drowned for his schemes, yet he never expressed worry. Why he hid the truth of Feyre being his mate, letting her choices be influenced by the work of a magical pull she wasn't aware of.

Why he barged in Spring Court like he owned the place. Why he nagged Tamlin who was minding his own business.

Why he hid the truth about Feyre's pregnancy just because he was panicking or didn't want to put her under stress, even though his first thought should've been about her basic right to know the risks.

Why he only protects Velaris and doesn't make life better for the CoN or the Illyrians, even though he has mind-controlling powers that could solve every problem in less than 1 year. Why Feyre never even mind-read Tamlin's intentions before sabotaging Spring Court.

With the current state of the fandom, there's not much room to ask these questions without getting my head ripped off. But I'll gladly listen to any Feysand stan explain why these two should be happy together.