She is sarcastic, too, but it is just her humor, underneath it is a huge heart for all creatures especially the suppressed ones. Bryce has sass and confidence but is not a scheming, dominating personality. Also, for me she is not like Aelin at all, who was more an alphahole than most of the main men in TOG (but forever my favorite leading female character). Also, partying and doing drugs is not juvenile per se, if it is knowing what you are doing and where your limit is and what kind of fun you need (same thing for Bryce sexuality).Īll in all, I experienced Bryce as an older character, as an adult which does not mean that she is living like a 40 year old mom of several children, but as an grown woman in a mesmerizing city with plenty of opportunities. I love that about Bryce, for me she is a really inspiring feminism character. She has a core of iron like all Maas leading female characters but knows about it more consciously than Feyre or even Aelin. She is outgoing, she had a good childhood and loving parents, she knows how she looks and what side of her she wants to show to people. At first glance she seems to be more juvenile than Feyre, who was a really introvert almost high sensible person with a missing childhood and low self esteem. The other misunderstanding in my point of view is Bryce's character. And therefore it is a little bit overwhelming in the beginning, but I like this world and the organic complexity because it is more realistic than Aelin saving her whole planet but you only know about two continents and 2 leaders and the same for ACOTAR which world is even more simple.

It is more layered in species, politics and magic systems, industry and technology. Of course, as an adult reader you have to work more to get to know this world. Yes, the world is way more bigger than TOG and ACOTAR, it is global, the society is more complex and more diverse. The first thing about of the Crescent City series is the expanded complexity. I thought I would give this book a 3 star rating, which for me means nice, not bad, but not mind blowing.īut I rethought and am currently rereading this book again after I just finished 800 pages, so that has to mean something :DĪ lot of reviewers are complaining about this book not being adult fantasy in terms of the characters and sometimes seems to be more juvenile than ACOTAR. Maas fan I was really excited about this book and after finishing it, the first half an hour I was disappointed.

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