Azriel : There was a Daglan asleep under the Prison this entire time.

Rhys : What!

Azriel : Nesta killed it. Oh and she used the mask in front of Bryce

Rhys : What!!

Nesta : Only cause of the middengard wyrm…

Rhys : WHAT!!!

Azriel : *trying to distract him* Oh and she took Truth-Teller!

Rhys : *pauses* Oh….I’m sorry about that Az *hugs Az*

Nesta : Oh your ancestors are actually genocidal maniacs….

“𝗔𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻, 𝗡𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱, “𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 … 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀?”

“𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲?” 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁.

𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱, 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘆𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱. “𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘇𝘆.”

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. 𝗦𝗵𝗲’𝗱 𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸’𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗲. 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗼’𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁, 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀.

𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.”

AZRIEL AND NESTA - Where to even begin. Their relationship and friendship is EVERYTHING. I'm so glad SJM chose to highlight both of them for the ACOTAR part because their chemistry is everything. I can't wait for more in ACOTAR 5

AZRIEL - Every new thing we learned about Azriel had me screeching. It's so clear SJM is setting him up for the next book. Every scene he appeared in I was obsessed! Finding out about truthteller, him being protective of his mom, him interacting with music, him being all hot and threatening....this bat has me in a chokehold I swear.

THE LORE - All the new information we got about Prythian and Midgard is so interesting. I wish I was a theories person because there's so much to theorize about!

RUHNLIDIA - They served in this book omg. When Ruhn was like "this is my first mission with my girlfriend I want to impress her" I almost threw my phone I'm not even kidding. They are so cute🥹✨✨

HUNT - I still feel like I need more Hunt. He's such a sweetheart and was truly a highlight for me in this book. I love him so much and I was totally rooting for him to fry Celestina.

Ruhn and Lidia’s mate announcement. I knew Ruhn and Lidia would be mates from HOSAB so I was only waiting for confirmation but the way it was written threw me off. Ruhn just said it out of nowhere and to…of all people…Pollux….like what? Why? Idk it could have been more emotional.

Ariadne- I don’t understand the point of introducing this new character only to do NOTHING with her. I shipped her and Flynn sooo much. The way she was introduced in the beginning of the book had me so hyped only for her to disappear. Like imagine a dragon marching with the armies of Hel when they fought the Asteri…

Sigrid - That entire plotline felt useless to me. She was set up to be this hope for the wolves and it all amounted to nothing. So why did we waste so much time on her. I enjoyed Ithan’s chapters because I really like him. But from an objective point of view…most of what SJM made him do didn’t make sense. If she wanted him to become Prime (which I loved btw) she didn’t need to waste all that time on Sigrid and her resurrection only for her to join Sabine the person she’s supposed to hate and then disappear.

Tharion and Sathia - No…just no…..

Bryce ignoring Hunt’s trauma - She did it in HOSAB but again and on a larger scale in HOFAS. Everytime Hunt brought up his fears (understandable because he has now faced the Asteri twice and suffered insane consequences) Bryce just got angry and put him in such a bad position. She made it look like he didn’t want to support her when he has very valid reasons to be afraid. After what he went through the first time in the Asteri dungeons for years and then again! I’m surprised he didn’t break down even more tbh. His feelings were so valid.

Bryce - SJM tried to do the “Aelin is always two steps ahead” thing with Bryce but honestly it didn’t work. A lot of the times I was side eyeing and was like “that’s convenient” Bryce was guessing a lot of times so that whole thing just didn’t work.

The plot was all over the place. The book really didn’t flow well.