Subpar characters and plot. Okay-ish worldbuilding, but I suspect that’s because a lot of this world’s elements are “borrowed” from other media. None of the twists felt shocking, and I outright predicted all but the one that involved characters I didn’t care about at all. 

Thoroughly disliked everyone except Amren. Feyre makes for an insufferable narrator. While the second half of the book was more enjoyable than the first, I’m not forgetting the 300 pages of absolute nonsense I had to wade through to get there. It was so hard to get through the first half of this book that it set me 8 books behind on my reading goal. Both books in this series are way too long for their plot - I won’t be reading anything else by Maas. 300 pages of no-plot is not okay when your characters are so bad I’m actively hoping they get killed off. 

If you love these books and think they’re the height of fantasy, know that much better is out there and you just haven’t read it yet. Please expand your horizons, you’re missing a lot.