A Court of Mist and Fury: Book 2 in the ACOTAR series

Intro

Having escaped from Amanthara Under The Mountain, Feyre is back at the Spring Court and engaged to Tamlin. But she soon realizes that he doesn’t treat her as well as he used to. At their wedding, just as she realizes she wants to refuse him, Rhys shows up and takes her to the Night Court, where she realizes she doesn’t want to be with him. When she gets back Tamlin locks her inside the house and she begs Rhys to take her away. At the Night Court, amongst threats of battle and war, Feyre and Rhys spend a lot more time together with Rhys protecting Feyre and making her feel seen. They start to grow closer and Feyre starts developing feelings that make her wonder why she was ever with Tamlin.

Why this book is banned

A Court of Mist and Fury is banned for its sexually explicit content and is banned in Brevard County Schools in Florida, Marion County Schools in Florida, Lexington-Richland Five School District in South Carolina, and Central York School District in Pennsylvania.

How I came across the book

A Court of Mist and Fury is the second book in the ACOTAR series.

Other books by the author/In the series

The other books in the ACOTAR series are A Court of Thorns and Roses, A Court of Wings and Ruin, A Court of Frost and Starlight, and A Court of Silver Flames.

The Good

• RHYSAND SHOWS UP AT FEYRE AND TAMLIN'S WEDDING

• RHYSAND BROKE THE SHIELD AND FREED FEYRE FROM BEING TRAPPED AND TOOK HER INTO THE NIGHT COURT AND SHE IS FINALLY CALM

• Feyre is going to stay with Rhysand at the night court since Tamlin is such an awful and toxic boyfriend

• Rhysand brings Feyre to his hometown in Velaris and he lets her stay in his house where he only ever brings his family

• He is so caring towards her when she is nervous to go to the Prison and her well-being matters to him unlike Tamlin who only cared about himself

• Rhysand is helping righten the straps on Feyre’s fighting leathers as she prepares to go to the weaver he says she belongs to every court and she asks him if she is his huntress and theif and he says SHE IS HIS SALVATION

• WHEN FEYRE AND RHYS GET TO THEIR ROOM IN FEYRES HOUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE BED AND IT IS LARGE ENOUGH FOR TWO

• Rhys said he doesn’t know how long he can look at her sisters without wanting to roar at them because she was so young and they didn’t protect her

• THE ATTOR WENT UP BEHIND FEYRE AND WOULDN’T LET HER GO UNTIL NIGHT EXPLODED AROUND THEM AND RHYS TRAPPED IT TO SAVE FEYRE

• FEYRE WRITES A LETTER TAMLIN THANKING HIM FOR WHAT HE DID BUT SAYING SHE LEFT OF HER OWN FREE WILL AND SHE ISN’T COMING BACK TO THE SPRING COURT SHE IS FINALLY DONE WITH HIM

• Feyre hears the same music in Velaris that was in her cell and asks why he sent that music to her and he says because she was breaking and he couldn’t find another way to save her

• Rhys has a nightmare that shakes the entire house and Feyre gets him to wake up and smoothes the darkness through the bond and tells him that he can always talk to her and kisses his cheek

• Feyre finally admits to herself that she wants to try to be something with Rhys

• RHYS SAYS IF LUCIEN HAD GRABBED FEYRE HE WOULD HAVE TORN APART THE WORLD TO GET HER BACK

• THEY ADMIT TO EACH OTHER THAT THEY CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT EACH OTHER

• The Suriel says that Rhysand is Feyre’s mate

• Rhys tells Feyre his backstory and tells her that he loves her

• Feyre is now the High Lady of the Night Court and a spy sent to the Spring Court

• The bond the king broke between Feyre and Rhysand wasn't the mating bond

The Bad

• Tamlin isn't doing anything when Feyre is throwing up all night from her trauma doesn't he care that she went through all of this for him and he isn't waking up but he would probably hear the sounds so he just doesn't care but as a loving boyfriend he should be supporting her through this especially since she sacrificed her entire life just to save him and when she talked to him about it he just ignored her

• Tamlin doesn't care about anything Feyre wants he isn't letting her go to the village because he wants to keep her safe he's restricting her from her passions

• He says it matters if something happens to her because the people in the village look up to her but he should also be caring about the people in the village instead of just Feyre

• Feyre should just break up with Tamlin she doesn't even care about the color of flowers for her own wedding and tells Ianthe to pick

• Feyre gave her jewels to a water-wraith in kindness for not being able to pay the Tithe and Tamlin got mad because those were jewlers he gave her and she was messing up his laws but he's so inconsiderate and doesn't even care that she was once starving and had no food

• Tamlin and Feyre have such a toxic relationship they argue all the time but then they apologize and sleep together which doesn't fix the problem so they should just break up they're clearly not right for each other

• Feyre tells Tamlin she wants to break up with him and he gets mad and shatters the whole study but then he starts apologizing and hugging her why can't he just accept that it's his fault and let it goo the relationship needs to end

• Feyre wants to help fight and Tamlin says no and she argues with him and he LOCKS HER INSIDE THE HOUSE why is he so posessive of her he needs to find other ways to ensure her safety without restricting her freedom

• Lucien shows up at the Court of Nightmares to take Feyre back

• The king of Hybern locks down everyone's magic and summons Lucien and Tamlin

• Tamlin is working with the King of Hybern to get Feyre back

• Feyres siters have been captured to convinve her to come back with tamlin

• The king of Hybern forced Nesta and Elain into the cauldron so they become High Fae

• Feyre told the king to break the mating bond to leep her sisters safe and Rhys and his friends safe

Who else would like this

Fans of ACOTAR and romantasy

Rating

8.5/10 The way Tamlin treated Feyre in the beginning was despicable. I was shocked at how in the first book he was loving and at the start of this book he was so posessive and controlling. I loved the slow burn and gradual buildup of Feyre and Rhys’ relationship progression of the book (slow burn is in understatement- confessing to each other 470 pages in is insane). There was so much power and emotion and care in Rhys’ backstory that ends with him telling Feyre he loves her. I hated when she told the king to break the bond to save him that was the saddest moment in the whole book for me and I can’t wait to see what happens in the third book now that she is a spy for the Night Court and living in the Spring Court with Tamlin.