I absolutely love this series and how much anger Sarah J. Maas causes in her "fans." They got so mad at her for the main character deciding to stay pregnant in one of the later books even though such a pregnancy is dangerous because--surprise surprise--pro-choice means exactly that, not just pro-abortion. Also, so many fans go out of their way to say certain characters and tropes are racist in this series when it's about faeries. There are no races in the fae world. And the whole "omg main human character is only 21, she a little tiny baby; main love interest is 400 years old he predator!" is bogus. bussy > gussy
I hope Sarah J. Maas continues to get rich from these books, because it honestly feels like she hit the writing jackpot. The writing isn't amazing, but it's obvious this is a passion project and it's a fun read.
If you are looking for romantic fantasy that meets basic writing quality standards, I would recommend Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, or the clean versions of the original Fate visual novel.
The author should be shot to death and then r*ped multiple times in that order as punishment for writing this sentence (even ironically). The idea that this disgusting wish fulfillment anime coomer slop that's been put through horny Jap to English translations meets "basic writing quality standwads" is insanely offensive to me. I want to email this r-slur credible death threats.
total fatestrag death, total ufotablestrag death, they do not deserve studio deen.
foidsmut hate would be funnier if it weren't mostly coming from tradcath weebs.
off topic but reminds me there is this site run by a cath magical girl fan who loves magical girls but cant stand that magical girl is a genre built by libertarians, wrote a multi-page rant on CLAMP. a commenter mentioned that he ran a comic shop where he sat chobits out front and whenever someone would try to buy it he would scream and chase them out.
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I let the intrusive thoughts (and intrusive thots) win, and so I went and bought the seminal "romantasy" (read as smut) novel A Court of Thorns and Roses and subsequently hate-read it in 10 hours (including my annotations). I purchased the 2020 2nd edition hardback, hoping that maybe when I was done with this review project I could hollow it out and use it as the worlds most evil gun case
Review is pretty mediocre, it's the equivalent of a 60 IQ anime mongoloid mocking a work written by an 80 IQ smut author.
The attempts by this guy to equivocate foid romantasy porn with moid anime porn are pretty feeble:
But also remember that Tamlin himself is a man written by a woman. So while he possesses heroic and self-sacrificial qualities, he also possesses all the subtlety as a romantic interest as an anime woman with O-cups, if you know what to look for (well I'm underselling my case here, Hitomi Tanaka does exist, no man caters to female desires as well as Tamlin). He's attentive and always knows whats on Feyre's mind, how she's feeling, and what she wants, and in fact the writing depicts this so poorly that I legitimately spent ½ of the novel under the impression that as a magical faerie boy, he can read her mind.
Yeah dude, a male romantic partner being concientious and attentive to his partner's inner self to the point where it seems like he's reading her mind is just as respectable as a female in an anime visual novel whose qualities are that she's got big tits and lusts for his peepee for being nice. It's the same thing!
I would implore the reader to consider that this book is not only the gateway drug for "romantasy" (porn), I would also point out to the reader that in the hentai (anime porn) community the open secret is that NTR (cheating) and r*pe content possesses an out-sized female fanbase.
Incel gooner cope. NTR is cuckoldry which is an overwhelmingly male and dominated fetish. The idea that foids enjoy the whole male cuckoldry thing is a moid brained misinterpretation that's the result of viewing everything through s*x. Foids fantasies where they have multiple partners all vying for her love involve the competing men being HVMs, where the men represent different possibilities of what kind woman she can be. Why would she want a loser to punish, that's like a male main character of a harem series having an unironically ugly side chick. The biggest fans of male sexual humiliation are men, whereas women enjoy works where the main character flip-flops between guys because they enjoy the drama and emotions of being caught between multiple compelling choices in men.
Given the permeation of this material, one must consider the social implications. If Tamlin gets viewed as a bad boyfriend, what chance do you, a non-perfect, not-immortal, not-princely, not-faerie, and not-mind reading dude have? Before you accuse me of sexual insecurity consider the reverse: is a woman not unreasonable for taking umbrage with her husband's porn addiction? A lot of hay is made in right-wing circles freaking out over porn, but I'll be honest, you have to get pretty deep before you start finding shit that's as r*pe-adjacent as ACOTAR.
Neighbor this is like saying "because men jack off to FFF cup anime girls and pornstsrs, will they ever find real women attractive?" The woman taking umbrage with her husband's porn addiction is doing so because he's literally ruining their lives from his addiction to gooning, which often results in real financial and productivity losses. Countless men ruin their lives and theie families lives from their porn addictions. Meanwhile how many foids do you hear suffer from being "addicted" to romance novels? Basically none.
This "review" is just an r-slured 4chan gooner trying to cry about foid smut novels being considered more respectable than moid anime porn, despite his comparisons justifying that view. From his descriptions, the drama and romance in A Court of Fairies is far more compelling than any coomer hentai work out there, the plot is stupid and contrived but there's actual character drama going on that gets fans going. His butthurt towards the main character's decision to leave the one guy for the other misses the point, she's supposed to stoke rage between fans who like Gigachad Fairy A vs Gigachad Fairy B. He's viewing everything from the lens of gooner sexual rage, not from a foid that's into smut. He's the equivalent of those foids that read s*x scenes or sexualized descriptions of characters in novels and sneeds about "objectification" because they're too stupid to understand context.
!bookworms we need to ban all anime fans from giving opinions on anything that's not weebslop.
Tamlin also finds himself near constantly contrasted with Feyre's first sexual partner, Isaac Hale, with whom she would fornicate with as a reprieve from the drudgery of taking care of her father and sisters. Tamlin essentially mogs Isaac, indicating that Maas' love interests exist in a sort of Dragon Ball Z esque power scaling of hypergamy, Tamlin is more powerful and hot than Isaac, Rhys moreso than Tamlin, and so on.
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I grant that the study is flawed, but on a different basis. It relied on self-reporting, which creates a selection bias. As we all know, revealed preference remains king, queen, fairie lord, vizier, and master of all sociological analysis. Everyone moves to the least black neighborhood they can in the USA, even in 2025, after all.
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I absolutely love this series and how much anger Sarah J. Maas causes in her "fans." They got so mad at her forthe main character deciding to stay pregnant in one of the later books even though such a pregnancy is dangerous because--surprise surprise--pro-choice means exactly that, not just pro-abortion. Also, so many fans go out of their way to say certain characters and tropes are racist in this series when it's about faeries. There are no races in the fae world. And the whole "omg main human character is only 21, she a little tiny baby; main love interest is 400 years old he predator!" is bogus. bussy > gussy
I hope Sarah J. Maas continues to get rich from these books, because it honestly feels like she hit the writing jackpot. The writing isn't amazing, but it's obvious this is a passion project and it's a fun read.
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The author should be shot to death and then r*ped multiple times in that order as punishment for writing this sentence (even ironically). The idea that this disgusting wish fulfillment anime coomer slop that's been put through horny Jap to English translations meets "basic writing quality standwads" is insanely offensive to me. I want to email this r-slur credible death threats.
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total fatestrag death, total ufotablestrag death, they do not deserve studio deen.
foidsmut hate would be funnier if it weren't mostly coming from tradcath weebs.
off topic but reminds me there is this site run by a cath magical girl fan who loves magical girls but cant stand that magical girl is a genre built by libertarians, wrote a multi-page rant on CLAMP. a commenter mentioned that he ran a comic shop where he sat chobits out front and whenever someone would try to buy it he would scream and chase them out.
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Don't just email him threats
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Epic start.
The whole review is fantastic
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Review is pretty mediocre, it's the equivalent of a 60 IQ anime mongoloid mocking a work written by an 80 IQ smut author.
The attempts by this guy to equivocate foid romantasy porn with moid anime porn are pretty feeble:
Yeah dude, a male romantic partner being concientious and attentive to his partner's inner self to the point where it seems like he's reading her mind is just as respectable as a female in an anime visual novel whose qualities are that she's got big tits and lusts for his peepee for being nice. It's the same thing!
Incel gooner cope. NTR is cuckoldry which is an overwhelmingly male and
dominated fetish. The idea that foids enjoy the whole male cuckoldry thing is a moid brained misinterpretation that's the result of viewing everything through s*x. Foids fantasies where they have multiple partners all vying for her love involve the competing men being HVMs, where the men represent different possibilities of what kind woman she can be. Why would she want a loser to punish, that's like a male main character of a harem series having an unironically ugly side chick. The biggest fans of male sexual humiliation are men, whereas women enjoy works where the main character flip-flops between guys because they enjoy the drama and emotions of being caught between multiple compelling choices in men.
Neighbor this is like saying "because men jack off to FFF cup anime girls and pornstsrs, will they ever find real women attractive?" The woman taking umbrage with her husband's porn addiction is doing so because he's literally ruining their lives from his addiction to gooning, which often results in real financial and productivity losses. Countless men ruin their lives and theie families lives from their porn addictions. Meanwhile how many foids do you hear suffer from being "addicted" to romance novels? Basically none.
This "review" is just an r-slured 4chan gooner trying to cry about foid smut novels being considered more respectable than moid anime porn, despite his comparisons justifying that view. From his descriptions, the drama and romance in A Court of Fairies is far more compelling than any coomer hentai work out there, the plot is stupid and contrived but there's actual character drama going on that gets fans going. His butthurt towards the main character's decision to leave the one guy for the other misses the point, she's supposed to stoke rage between fans who like Gigachad Fairy A vs Gigachad Fairy B. He's viewing everything from the lens of gooner sexual rage, not from a foid that's into smut. He's the equivalent of those foids that read s*x scenes or sexualized descriptions of characters in novels and sneeds about "objectification" because they're too stupid to understand context.
!bookworms we need to ban all anime fans from giving opinions on anything that's not weebslop.
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All of this leads me to conclude that the normalization of masturbation was a mistake.
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Women don't marry equals, they want someone better than them.
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Correct
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Spitting facts
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Snapshots:
https://theamericansun.substack.com/p/sarah-j-maas-ruined-a-generation:
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