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“What sort of things do you paint?�� My question was soft as the snow falling past us. Ressina smiled slightly. “The things that need telling.��

FIRST OFF I WANT TO SAY WHERE WAS MY WEDDING. I WAS PROMISED A WEDDING. P R O M IS E D. Yeah so whoever is expecting a wedding, Y'all have been lied too. You've been deceived. Don't be crazily disappointed like I was. Still mad and will forever be #salty. The reason I was so hyped was because I was told there was going to be a wedding and I was fooled.

And I'm also currently ranting with my favorite human Amber. We both have a lot of rage and just what was this BOOK LOLOL. I still really enjoyed it though.

Also wow I'm reviewing for the first time in MONTHS. I have shocked myself. But this book makes me have a lot of feels I want to talk about.

But okay, ACOFAS definitely wasn't everything I hoped it would be, yet it wasn't terrible either. I'm like stuck with a mix of wow that was just unnecessary but also WOW that was so good, let me read it again. I don't understand my own feelings, to be honest. There was a lot in this book that was just so fluffy and light and fantastic. Which makes me want to reread it ASAP because it made me feel so happy for my Night Court Faves. But it did have its fair share of "wow this is so irrelevant, no one cares." And then there's a lot of Darkness in this book that I wasn't expecting either?!?! It gets dang heavy in parts and just the places Sarah is going with some characters is a little scary and rough territory, like can she pull it off?! Or is that plane going to crash so fast? No Idea but oh well, I guess we'll just have to see where it goes.

I don't want to spoil anything, uhm there's literally like nothing to spoil really because nothing happens in this book besides Christmas, drinking Wine, and uhm smut duh LOL. BUT here's some favorite parts that lit up my soul in this book, I'm trying to not be obvious though so it's safe to read.

~ Velaris is happy
~ Painting, painting and more painting
~ SNOWBALL FIGHTS
~ Amren not knowing how to Pee
~ Amren squeling
~ Az Roasting Amren
~ Every scene involving Amren
~ Horse Riding
~ Mor having a Voice and just being Mor and HAVING FUN
~ "Rhysie"
~ Azriel being soft towards a Female
~ THE GROUP OF OUTCASTS WHOSE GROUP NAME I FORGOT
~ Everything Nesta does because I love her with all my heart
~ THE SAUNA AHAHAHAHAHA
~ Baby Illyrians
~ More art and I love Art, please give me more Art
~ The teaser for the Next Series

I think once my Hardcopy comes in from Booksamillion I'll probably reread it to get more out of it. BUT so really not much goes on in this book really, it's just fluffy and meant for us all to feel good while reading. I want to talk about the TEASER THO. Yes, the next paragraph is about the next series so proceed with caution.

The next series is going to be so Amazing and it has my favorite OTP in it and it's exactly what I want. AND NESTA JUST BEING NESTA HAS ME SHOOK. Okay that's enough. Just I really feel like the next series is going to be a lot of self healing and I can't wait because Sarah does Self-Healing so good and I'm so ready. But yeah got to wait ANOTHER Year. Ugh. Oh well. I will last I guess.

ANYWAYS! I'm super happy this came out and filled my soul with some happiness even if some parts really made me annoyed and just ticked. Overall it was a good book, with minor issues, and that's why I'm not giving it a full five stars. Otherwise I would have. Just somethings were annoying but oh wellll. Also my favorite quotes and scenes are at the bottom!

Now I silently wait for Kingdom of Ash and pray that it's not trash.

Favorite Quotes:

(Chapter One) "My mate—who had worked so hard and so selflessly, all without hope that I would ever be with him. We had both fought for that love, bled for it. Rhys had died for it."

(Chapter One) "It took you this long to respond?' It was a long distance to the Illyrian Mountains, yes, but it shouldn’t have taken minutes to hear back. A sensual huff of laughter. 'Cassian was ranting. He didn’t take a breath.' 'My poor Illyrian baby. We certainly do torment you, don’t we?'"

(Chapter Two) "I never stopped being grateful for them—my friends, my family, who looked at that power of mine and did not balk, did not become scented with fear."

(Chapter Four) "A creature of flame and brimstone, built in another world to mete out a cruel god’s judgment, to be his executioner upon the masses of helpless mortals. Fifteen thousand years, she had been stuck in this world. And had not loved, not in the way that could alter history, alter fate, until that silver-haired Prince of Adriata. Or at least loved in the way that Amren was capable of loving anything. So, yes: nothing was declared between them. But I knew he visited her, secretly, in this city. Mostly because some mornings, Amren would strut into the town house smirking like a cat."

(Chapter Six) "You are over five hundred years old, she often reminded herself. She could face it, handle it better than this."

(Chapter Twelve) "'Dangerous words, Rhysand,�� Amren warned, strutting through the door, nearly swallowed up by the enormous white fur coat she wore. Only her chin-length dark hair and solid silver eyes were visible above the collar. She looked�� “You look like an angry snowball,�� Cassian said. I clamped my lips together to keep the laugh in. Laughing at Amren wasn’t a wise move. Even now, with her powers mostly gone and permanently in a High Fae body."

(Chapter Twelve) "“Pick on someone your own size,�� Cassian said to Amren, shoveling roast chicken into his mouth. “I’d feel bad for the mice,�� Azriel muttered. Mor and Cassian howled, earning a blush from Azriel and a grateful smile from Elain—and no shortage of scowling from Amren."

(Chapter Fifteen) “One that they fought and died to protect in the war. Perhaps that’s the better way to think of it, rather than feeling guilty. To remember that this day means something to them. All of them, regardless of who has more, who has less, and in celebrating the traditions, even through the presents, we honor those who fought for its very existence, for the peace this city now has.��

(Chapter Fifteen) “I have to create, or it was all for nothing. I have to create, or I will crumple up with despair and never leave my bed. I have to create because I have no other way of voicing this.�� Her hand rested on her heart, and my eyes burned. “It is hard,�� the weaver said, her stare never leaving mine, “and it hurts, but if I were to stop, if I were to let this loom or the spindle go silent …�� She broke my gaze at last to look to her tapestry. “Then there would be no Hope shining in the Void.��

(Chapter Eighteen) “Three Illyrian warriors,�� I said. “The greatest Illyrian warriors. Are having a snowball fight.��

(Chapter Nineteen) “To the blessed darkness from which we are born, and to which we return.��

(Chapter Twenty Eight) "You make me so very happy. My life is happy, and I will never stop being grateful that you are in it."