ACOTAR – Chapter 3 Live Reaction and Review

Nesta actually chopped wood? Surprised! But, that’s only because she’s hoping Feyre (my phone autocorrect to Gruyère which has me chuckling to myself) would buy her stuff she wants with the money she’ll make from the pelts she retrieved from the doe and Wolfasaurus-rex, not out of necessity or the kindness of her heart. So far, still so very selfish…

On an aesthetic note, I am enjoying the little twigs? Vines? Thorny rose stems? That show up on every first page of each chapter.

The High Fae Acolytes are a nice and unexpected touch for me. I know literally nothing about SJM’s stories, so maybe this is in her lane, but I found it interesting. It’s gotta be here for a reason, right? I hope so. As we know, I don’t like unnecessary fluff, especially in overabundant details.

I’m seeing a lot of em dashes in this chapter so far. Those have been telltales of AI writing, but I’m not saying SJM has Chatgpt write her manuscripts. I’m merely pondering on the fact that em dashes are so useful, and it’s a shame that they’re being overly used in AI stories, and since they’re more writerly? If that’s the right word, normal, everyday peeps don’t use them as much. I don’t mind em dashes at all. In fact, I quite enjoy them. They help break up a sentence and connect thoughts without periods and commas. That’s refreshing. What if we took back em dashes??? Not an indication that AI was probably used to write something, but as they’ve always been intended! Okay, I’ll get off my soap box now…

Back to the story. Why am I now getting a tiny and sneaky suspicion that Gruyère…my phone autocorrected again, whatever, I’m leaving it.

Gruyère might end up with some high fae hottie prince of something? Since humans hate the faeries so much? My trope-y senses are tingling…especially with a line like, “faerie-loving wh0re” mumbled by some farmers’ wives to the acolytes as they walk past and Cheese agrees internally.

Like Detective Peach in her latest game, I point and shout, “Ah-ha!” At this conversation!

The context is High Fae spiriting away people to Prythian (wherever that is. If it was explained, I don’t remember. That may be because I’m reading 5 books at once, but whatever, don’t judge me – we judge books around here, not people lol) Cheese will likely be spirited away to become a High Fae’s bride into Hyrule, probably some trope-y Link type that’s ultra beefed up or whatever because Romantasies.

There’s a lot of lore heavy exposition in this chapter. I’m not mad at it, though. World building is super important, and I enjoyed how Maas is doing it, intertwining it with Cheese’s thoughts as she’s talking to a mercenary woman she decided to approach and sell her pelts to. She got paid more than she expected, so that’s nice, I guess. Good for Cheese, and we got a lot of doom and gloom talk about the faeries. It makes sense in the context of the chapter so far. I like that.

Ooookay?? And the random s3x talk? I wasn’t expecting that so early. Isaac isn’t just some off-distant crush. He and Cheese are meeting and lovemaking, not skilled, she admits, but, like, tone shift much? Geez Louise! I feel a bit of whiplash! Straight from, be ye warned about thee devil-spawned monsters that are thee faeries to we ripped each other’s clothes off, teeth clacking, lips all over. Good gravy, Cheese! Imma need a minute to recalibrate!

Le gasp! Isaac is to be wed? And not to our precious Bow Girl Gruyère? And he gave her the equivalent of a booty call with a simple nod of the head from across the square! ¡Escándalo! That’s eh-Spanish for ‘goodness me! I clutch my pearls!’

I rolled my eyes…knowing he’s to be wed, she still goes off to him? Really? Yikes! And they have birth control potions? I actually find that wave-of-a-wand convenient and ridiculous! Like, nah, uh-uh. I don’t think so ma’am. That’s just wave your hand convenient so you don’t have to explain how Cheese and Isaac aren’t parents yet. Feels frivolous and forced to me.

And she doesn’t even talk about it? You came all this way to blindside me into your s3xcapades only to drop a scene break? And be like, back at home…
Girl! I don’t need the specifics, but ya left us high and dry! So stupid! You don’t even show her and him talking about him being wed but wanting said booty call? You’d think Cheese would confront him about that! Ugh!

This chapter was doing so much right until this!
I feel like Jinkx Monsoon’s hair in RPDR Season 5 when she was told her hair was a little thirsty! “I tried to tease it, but I just pissed it off!”

*Points to self*
At least we end the chapter on a cliffhanger of the cabin being attacked lol. That sounds terrible, but I’m not sorry about it.

Rating for this chapter:

•La Croix

•Jalapeños

•Creepy Vibes

•Raised Eyebrow

•Crickets

•Fine

•Dairy Queen

•It was Muenster until it went full Cheese Whiz

•Cut, for the graphic faerie attack warnings

•Apple Pie

•White Chocolate trying to blend in with Milk Chocolate

SnS 🌹💀📜🥤