Love - love was a balm as much as it was a poison.
This was just such an epic story about love. This idea that love is a give and take relationship. Love is not controlling. Love allows one to grow and become the best person that they can be. Love does not lock you up to keep you stunted and hidden from the world, but rather, fortifies you to face hard times and survive. Love is sacrifice, which may be painful.
he'd fought for me -- but I'd fought harder for him.
After her "rebirth", Fayre is struggling with who she is and what she wants. She is tormented by what she did under the mountain, and in the throes of a deep depression. She is questioning who she is, what she wants, and this "love" that is between her and Tamlin. As always, SJM gave us an action packed story with amazing characters and some really hot parts too. I was even crying, like really crying, my mascara was running around 90%-ish. I also fell in love with Rhys, his inner circle, and the Court of Dreamers. My heart was bursting with love and hope and all sorts of good stuff so many times during this book.
Not as my heart -- my heart -- ached, so viciously that I realized it'd somehow been repaired in these past few months. Repaired by him.
What I loved though, is that she gave us closure, while setting up the next book. We are pointed in the direction of the fate of the MCs, and don't have to be all stressed out until September. But man, I cannot wait to read the next book!
I was his and he was mine, and we were the beginning and middle and end. We were a song that had been sung from the very first ember of light in the world.
I am so glad there is a book like this out there, which tells a fantastic story, but also can set an example of real love, and show young women that when a real man loves a women, he empowers her.
"Welcome to the family, Feyre." And I thought those might have been the most beautiful words I'd ever heard.