A Court of Mist and Fury
The book that made the series. It takes the ending of the first one and treats the aftermath as the actual story — trauma, a marriage that is wrong, and a court of misfits who are better at loving her than the man who saved her was. On the House's scale it rates 4 for spice (explicit), 5 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. Readers who found the first book slow and were told to keep going. They were right.
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How it rates
- Author
- Sarah J. Maas
- Series
- A Court of Thorns and Roses, book 2 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 4 out of 5, Explicit4/5 · Explicit
- Romance
- 5/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Medium
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- The Night Court and the city of Velaris
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 626
On the spice rating Explicit and frequent from the midpoint, including the chapter the entire internet refers to obliquely. How the scale works.
Content warnings PTSD, emotional abuse, violence, suicidal ideation.
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