Christmas story, сопли ( )

I can’t believe people don’t like this book!!! I loved it! The biggest complaint I have is that I wish all of the pov’s were in first person, not just Feyre’s and Rhys’s. It made it a little disjointed at times and I would have loved to have that more personal perspective and look into the other characters that a first person pov would have brought. But other than that I really enjoyed this! It was a much needed intermission from the main story. It’s fluffy and funny and overall a good balance. Give this one a chance, it’s not as intense as the other books but after ACOWAR I found that I while I didn’t want a break from the series, I did really need a bit of a breather. Which this provided handily. ( )

Out of the series this was my least favorite book. It’s a bridge between 3&5, and has a lot of important information, but I felt much more detached from it. It was hard to see that the happy endings anticipated from the war ending were much less clear. It was especially hard to watch Nesta self-destruct, but again, that made way for the next book. ( )

It's the winter solstice celebrations and Feyre and her family and friends gather to celebrate.

By Maas standards, this book at 230 pages is a novella, and not a ton of major plot stuff happens. As I snarkily texted to my friend, this book desperately just wants to be a fluffy AU fanfic where everyone goes Christmas shopping but all the typical Maas angst just gets in the way. Also, let's not forget the horrifying description of Fae menstruation that gets dropped in here. Less annoying than the previous volumes but then again there's just less of it. One more book to go! ( )

I don’t think this book is strictly necessary as a bridge to the next trilogy. Could have been boiled down and served up as the first chapter of the next book ( )