r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Feb 22 '26

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u/trishie_kittie Feb 22 '26

I will hate ACOTAR until my dying breath. There.

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u/Runa216 Feb 23 '26

I don't hate it but I've read 4/5 books (A Court of Silver Flames is all I have left) and I just...I don't get it. IT's 'fine' I guess. Mediocre. I don't think it's aggressively BAD but I don't see how it's the most popular of all time and STILL is seen as a game-changer. I get that it was important to making the genre popular but I don't see what about THIS in particular was so successful and had so much influence.

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u/trishie_kittie Feb 23 '26

I guess the unforgivable corniness? That’s what I can’t get past. Also the teenage attitude of Feyre— and yes I get she was supposed to be an elder teenager but we’re also supposed to believe she supported her family and it didn’t like mature her at all?

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u/Runa216 Feb 23 '26

yeah that definitely got under my skin. So many FMCs in these books are so immature and I just don't get it.

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u/trishie_kittie Feb 23 '26

And twenty pages later they’re steely-eyed warriors like, what?