Rushda Patel’s Reviews > A ​Court of Silver Flames > Status Update

Book 4 really threw me. One moment I’m bracing for war with the Queen, next I’m stuck in endless training scenes with Nesta, Gwyn, and Emerie. Then it’s back-to-back spice with Cassian. Rhys is barely present aside from brooding over Feyre’s pregnancy, and she drifts in and out. Mor’s MIA, Amren’s just hanging with Varian. Honestly, too many things happening but nothing happening. This feels so scattered.

Nesta is hateful and complicated—deeply grey, often leaning dark. She’s angry, bitter, and lashes out not because she’s strong, but because she hates herself. There’s cowardice in the way she hurts others before they can hurt her. In a lot of ways, she reflects the parts of us we don’t like to admit: the anger, the self-loathing, the fear disguised as cruelty.