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Feels very contemporary, which I love, and it is actually satire, which is rare. But I am finding it weirdly difficult to read.

Guys omg please help me

I want to be done now ughhhhhhhh

There’s this part where the faerie guy and feyre ‘go over the edge together.’ … And I vividly remember thinking, at thirteen, that that meant they fell off the bed. But obviously it didn’t.

Nesta’s moment of remembering is genuinely really good writing and characterization.

It’s the word Calumny spelled phonetically. Meaning doesn’t matchup, so maybe she just liked the sound…? I think ‘Suriel’ has a Latin root but I’m not sure. I’m sorry! Ik I’d say I’d quit with the vocab but I am fascinated with how YA authors build words: not quite JRR Tolkien, not quite just using the word, but something in between holding a thesaurus.

I always knew the magic would link to sex somehow, and I distantly remembered this whole ‘ceremony’ deal (which is the calumny spelled phonetically in a vaguely Latin way, but considering my recent vocab crimes I think I’ll leave off the criticism), but the ceremony thing is a lot more freudian-urge-repressed-made-into-ceremony-necessity-so-it-can-be-indulged than I recalled. But it makes sense.

I remember all of this now. But barely.

Sorry for the terminology mixup there Sarah, I assumed something awful of you. ACOTAR wiki fixed it though.