Bless This Mess: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
I’m back! Been a while since I read something that was this bad and yet this compelling.
Young girl with cancer gets isekai’d into her favourite (kind of) book series, into the body of the villainess, and has to survive. I was immediately sold on this concept, and then the execution, uh, left something to be desired.
Question up at the top for anyone who can help me out here: big boobie evil (maybe sorceress) lady who seduces the king. What are we referencing here? Where does this trope come from? Because this book was certainly interested in critiquing it and I just want to know. Please tell me where to find the big boobie evil villainesses, I need to know for science.
Let’s get into it.
Bless This Mess: A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
I’ll be real with you: I was not excited to start this book.
And then when I did, it was a bit of a slog to get through. Moreso than the previous books in the series, by a long shot.
Now, I have what I was describing to a friend the other day as a deeply toxic relationship to this book and the series as a whole. I recognize all of the problems but I also just! Can’t! Seem! To stop talking about it and thinking about it. Fuck you, Sarah J Maas.
This book drove me, somehow, to reading fanfic about this series. Specifically, reading fanfic that actually addresses the issues in the book/the series and takes it to task on things, as well as giving justice to certain characters and plotlines. So there’s that, I guess?
Let’s get into it.
Bless This Mess: Warriors Concept Album
Bless This Mess: A Court of Frost and Starlight
This is such a weird little entry.
So, Feyre, human-turned-Fae extraordinaire, won her war and has functionally lived happily ever after with her mate (bleh) Rhysand. Why not publish a little Christmas sorry, Solstice special?
I don’t know if I’ve ever read a published book like this. There is very little plot or story here, things happen without even the barest glimpse of a character arc, and it’s all basically a setup for the next big novel. Still, it’s here, and it’s wild, so we’re going to talk about it.