A Court of Books and Magic ✧･ﾟ: * discussion

Absolutely amazing heroine

One of the strongest and greatests characters to ever exist

Literally in my top 5 favourite female book characters ever. I love her.

absolutely iconic lolll

honestly I actually preffered her as Celeana because I felt like she forgot that she could use a sword once she got her powers it's like she kind of forgot the assassin side of her too easily

I agree! Once she became Aelin, everyone forgot about the assassin side of her which annoyed me. She was a stringer character as an assassin

I liked her more as Aelin, because even though she had her powers and everything, at the base of it was her assassin training. It was just more subtle. Like when she had to make a shield out of fire in HoF. Or cut down a section of the Valg army with her powers depleted.

Either way, she's still absolutely iconic with her eyes and swagger and sass.
Queen.

AspiringAuthor wrote: "I liked her more as Aelin, because even though she had her powers and everything, at the base of it was her assassin training. It was just more subtle. Like when she had to make a shield out of fir..."

yes, I think Aelin was powerful and she never forgot her assassin side, let's be honest she would have died in the battle without it, and she used a sword a lot, so she never forgot, and really how could she? I just loved seeing her as herself, no facade

I think once she became aelin she never truly buried the assassin. What she buried was the facade she had to put up constantly in order to survive the assassins den. She never truly got to be herself. So when she became Aelin it’s like she just added on to the assassin side. She let herself grow and care for people.

Karina wrote: "I think once she became aelin she never truly buried the assassin. What she buried was the facade she had to put up constantly in order to survive the assassins den. She never truly got to be herse..."

agree 100%

:) yay !
Aelin was definitely a really cool character to read about ! Her character development throughout the books was AMAZING

Karina wrote: "I think once she became aelin she never truly buried the assassin. What she buried was the facade she had to put up constantly in order to survive the assassins den. She never truly got to be herse..."

I do agree, but I wish we could see more of the assassin side through Aelin. I feel like after the first book, we lost a lot of that super cool assassin character. Again, that's just imo. After the first book, the mood of the series completely shifted.

the plot of the series shifted after the first book, which is probably why. The first book was just Celaena trying to earn her freedom; the rest of the series was really centered on her rise to Aelin, which is why we lost part of the first book's mood.

I think it’s crazy how someone who just finished kingdom of ash could talk to someone whose only read throne of glass and they would have no idea ! The first and last books are so different !!

exactly! the first book was supposed to be a cinderella retelling and now KoA is just....I mean, damn.

Lol that means arobynn was the evil step mother 🤣🤣

I think it deviated a lot. As in, a lot.

I mean, the evidence is there: Girl mistreated (Enovier), handsome prince (Dorian), fancy ball (the Yulemas one Celaena crashes). It's just very different. I think it evolved as SJM wrote it, because she did start when she was 16 and it was published when she was in her thirties .

lol actually the idea SJM has was Cinderella BUT the girl was an assassin sent to kill the prince instead

oh okay that makes more sense.

Holy crap that is a hell of a retelling. If I knew that while reading it would’ve been that much better !

☀︎El In Oz☀︎ wrote: "lol actually the idea SJM has was Cinderella BUT the girl was an assassin sent to kill the prince instead"

W.O.W. Talk about a plot twist.

Honestly, I think now we don't need perfect fairytales, a lot of us probs prefer knifes and magic and assassins

lol I love both! Like I love a sweet Disney fairy tale, and I also love the whole magic evil assassin books too

I love twisted fairytale retellings, like Princess of the Midnight Ball and House of Salt and Sorrow (the Twelve Dancing Princesses)

I’m definitely going to read the books you just listed ! I love retellings.

best. character. ever.

Karina wrote: "I’m definitely going to read the books you just listed ! I love retellings."

"Stepsister" by Jennifer Donnelly and "Forest of A Thousand Lanterns" by Julie C. Dao are both amaaaazing

Kaltain being an evil stepsister though

Definetly one of my favorite female characters ever and right now I want to reread tog so bad

AspiringAuthor wrote: "Karina wrote: "I’m definitely going to read the books you just listed ! I love retellings."

"Stepsister" by Jennifer Donnelly and "Forest of A Thousand Lanterns" by Julie C. Dao are both amaaaazing"

THANK YOU!

Smol Porg wrote: "It’s been a month and a half since I finished the series and I was dying of book hangover so I’m re reading right now"

DO IT!

I just recently reread heir of fire and I hadn’t realized just how great this book was until I reread it! I I’ll reread the whole series as soon as my friend gives me back the first two books I loaded her!

literally me though. I'm so slow.

I definitely agree with you!

I think Aelin is a perfect example of the main protagonist not needing to be relatable, per se, in order to be a phenomenal character in general.

Exactly. She was relatable in some aspects, but I think part of what made her so amazing was that she seemed so larger-than-life. But she was still, in a way, human.

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I know a lot of people hate her because she's so "unrealistic" and OP, but again, going with the whole "unrelatable" thing, I feel like so many people LOVE her because she's the best version of themselves. Completely unrealistic, but a dream version of themselves if they could.

WE STAN A QUEEN!!!

I think she's incredibly human. She has hobbies besides killing people. She admires herself in the mirror. She likes to look pretty. SHE'S SELF ABSORBED AND I LOVE HER FOR IT. I'm sick of "humble" and "plain" heroines. I want a QUEEN, and I got one <3

The BEST!!! She's up there with Feyre, Bryce, Mor, Amren and Lysandra, so thats saying something!!!

She's awesome. Kickass, and funny, and awesome. Not that relatable, but still one of the best characters in the series.

I LOVE her. We need more female leading characters like her. Quit writing about "nice" heroines that always depend on some guy to save them. Mah queen is badass

I liked how at the end she grew as a person, learning to embrace herself and her troubles in the past. She learned that she was allowed to love despite all the things she was forced to do by arobynn. I am happy she got to be with friends and family and got to be happy in her home as well as in her skin.