r/nontoxicACOTAR

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 ⭐✨!​

Eris Vanserra 🔥🍂 Heir to the Autumn Court throne. 🍁🍁🍁 Excerpt from A Court of Embers & Shade: "Eris was built for his position. Tall, finely made garments draped over a lean body, a face cut from royalty itself. His skin was impossibly pale, brows dark and full above burning amber eyes. His cheekbones were sharp as blades, his lips fuller than 🖤 had noticed before. His straight nose seemed made for looking down, his expression typically pulled into a sneer. A single cuffed earring sat at the low helix of one perfectly pointed ear."

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I genuinely need to know if anyone else has been THIS consumed by the ACOTAR series because I feel slightly insane right now 😭

I’m a first-time reader and I absolutely devoured the books. I finished all 5 in two weeks, INCLUDING a reread of ACOTAR and I’m now on ACOMAF again because I thought maybe rereading would calm my obsession down… but it honestly made it worse.

This series has completely taken over my brain unlike anything I’ve read before.

I’m avoiding household chores. I’ve ordered takeout every night because I don’t want to stop reading long enough to cook. I’m sneaking my Kindle at work. I’ve been kind of antisocial to my husband because all I want to do is disappear back into Prythian 😭

And Rhysand??? I am DOWN BAD. Every scene he’s in makes me giggle like a teenager. The romantic moments between him and Feyre absolutely destroy me emotionally. I love Velaris, the Inner Circle, the banter, the found family feeling… all of it. Real life suddenly feels so dull compared to being wrapped up in that world.

I seriously catch myself daydreaming about the books constantly. Looking up fan art, artist rendering videos, podcasts, rereading favorite scenes… I feel like I’m mourning a place that doesn’t exist while simultaneously not wanting the series or this insanity in my brain to end. As a thirty something, I thought this type of obsession was beyond me.

Please tell me other people experienced this level of ACOTAR brain rot because WOW.

Okay, I’m on my re-read of ACOSF and Nesta Archeron is soooo heavily hinted at being a descendant of the iron teeth witches, I’d never have caught it the first time because I hadn’t rread TOG yet.

Cassian describes her as a “haughty witch”

Clotho says she has a will of iron.

And then we have the scene where her nails scrape on the walls and she swears she sees sparks.

Not half way through the reread yet but there must be some witch bloodline within the archeron sisters, each has been so powerful so far, and hinted to be powerful. I’m so excited for the next books.

This is driving me crazy - I read a fic before I had an AO3 account and want to reread it but don’t remember what it’s called or what the tags were! Can someone help a girl out?

Here’s what I remember:
- it was All Human
- Feyre accidentally killed Tamlin and went to throw his body in the river
- Rhys saw her struggling and pulled over to help
- Then he took her to Taco Bell and they fell in love

It was the perfect blend of funny and well written.

Thanks in advance!