Rhysand said smoothly, “I’m not entirely sure Velaris is prepared for Nesta Archeron.”
“My sisters not some feral animal,” I snapped.
ACOWAR, page 171
I wish the ACOTAR series focused more on the sisters and had them defend each other, like here.
Instead in silver flame, Nesta is forced to be in a house that she can’t leave with a man that she doesn’t want to be around.
Everyday I hope SJM proves me wrong and reveals that the IC are bad people and that their bad actions were done on purpose.
It won’t erase the other criticisms that I have of ACOTAR, but it will erase one of my main ones.
The posts that are like „no you can’t say ACOTAR is a bad series because it’s not finished” * are ridiculous. I’ve never read TOG and I don’t plan on doing it but I’ve seen a lot of love for it and whenever people say * they always bring up TOG and say that the start of the series is bad but the rest of is really good, so we should give SJM a chance.
And as I’ve said, I haven’t read TOG, but seriously we’ve had 5 books, including the novella. We shouldn’t have for the series to get good. And even if it does „get good”, that won’t erase the rest of the books.
Guys do you remember when Rhysand sincerely apologised to Feyre for what he did to her UTM? No excuses, no talking about himself, but a genuine, „I shouldn’t have done what I did, I really regret it and I want you to know that I’m sorry”.
Or when he admitted when that he’s been neglecting most of his court and should definitely become more involved and said that he’s going to make everyone’s lives better?
Or when he told Feyre that her pregnancy will kill her and said that he’ll support whatever decision she wants to make?
Yeah me neither. It’s weird that he hasn’t done any of that. And I highly doubt he will do any of it.
Lately I’ve seen a lot of ACOTAR stans say that the only reason why ACOTAR isn’t seen as a good fantasy series is because of misogyny.
I’m sorry but if you genuinely believe this then I don’t think we’ve read the same series. Not to stay that there aren’t people who don’t just hate ACOTAR because the author is a woman, but that is certainly not most people.
And let’s not pretend that that majority of people who read ACOTAR don’t love it. They also get very aggressive when you display any type of dislike towards it. Rape threats, death threats, harm threats in general, insults, slurs is what you can expect if you express any type of negative feelings towards ACOTAR. (Obviously not every ACOTAR stan is like this but the loudest ones are like this and there’s a lot of them).
Even in real life I’ve been insulted because I don’t think ACOTAR is the best series ever and I don’t love Rhysand.
ACOTAR’s world building is messy. A lot of the characters are inconsistent. The narrative portrays certain characters as being good despite their actions not matching up, which doesn’t always mean that the writing is bad, it can be done on purpose. However, the characters “goodness” is never challenged and if it is it’s by characters that you are not supposed to like, so it’s not taken seriously. There’s a lot of retcon. The magic system isn’t really explained. Why does magic only choose men? Why does Feyre have so much magic if the High Lords only gave a drop of power to her?
The point is, there’s a lot of reasons why people dislike ACOTAR and misogyny isn’t the only reason.
I have issues with only men being able to be High Lord, as it just doesn’t make sense as to why magic would be sexist, but if we follow this logic, why would anyone apart form the Night Court give a shit that Feyre is High Lady?
The magic didn’t choose her. It’s just a title that Rhysand gave her. The other High Lords don’t answer to Rhysand. So why should they care?
And let’s say (although I find this nearly impossible to happen) that Rhysand and Feyre disagree on an important political matter, who do the High Lords listen to? Rhysand, chosen by the magic or Feyre, a woman who was given the title by her husband?
“High Lady” is just a title that looks pretty but is ultimately worthless.
I feel like Rhysand is just written kinda weird in the first book. Like he wants the curse broken too, right? So why would he tell Amarantha about Tamlin having a girlfriend, instead of waiting for them to break the curse? Like surely he should of at least considered the possibility that Tamlin might panic and send her away, because after all, it is Amarantha. Like he kinda shot himself in the foot with that one.
I guess that’s because SJM needed the plot to move forward UTM but like surely she could of made up something different. Because now Rhysand looks kinda dumb.
And then UTM the deal with Feyre. I guess you could argue that he likes to feel powerful and wanted to piss of Tamlin, but like FEYRE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN BREAK THE CURSE! Surely you would want to give her the best chances
I still can’t believe that no one told Feyre that her pregnancy would most likely kill her. Like I can’t ever wrap my head around it. Like surely if Rhysand loved her he’d tell her. You don’t keep information like this to yourself. I genuinely would never forgive anyone if they kept information like that from me.
I think Nesta and Tamlin haters need to realise that people would be more likely to listen to their criticisms of these characters if;
A) they didn’t make up things
B) didn’t blatantly misinterpret and ignore the context of scenes
and
C) held every character to the same standard
As someone who hates Rhysand and has interacted with the acotar fandom, I’ve seen a lot of insane comments being made.
But one thing that has always confused me is how Rhysand’s stans love to claim how he’s so morally grey but then be surprised and angry when people don’t like him. Like yeah that’s what being a morally grey character means, not everyone will like them.
(I don’t agree with him being morally grey, I think he’s just evil)
But also the fact that they claim that he’s morally grey, but justify every single thing he does and says. Because Rhysy is perfect and he’s never done anything wrong 🥺🥺🥺.
So how can he be morally grey if he’s perfect and has done nothing wrong?