Over the course of multiple fantasy series, Sarah J. Maas has made an art of crafting fierce, self-destructive female characters. But few are as polarizing as Nesta, one of three human sisters turned High Fae, who takes center stage in this first truly adult entry in Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses series.
A Court of Silver Flames picks up after the war against the King of Hybern. Already prickly and determined to hold everyone at arm s length, Nesta is now drowning in her trauma, numbing the pain with booze and sex.
In a bid to jolt her into recovery, her sisters order her to retreat to intense physical training with the one man she resents (and desires) most, the warrior Cassian. When she s not spending her time learning to defend herself, she works in a sacred library, helping an order of women file away books. But when the court is faced with a new threat from treacherous human queens, Nesta faces her greatest test: learning to love herself.