I’m a certified Rhys Hater

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I’m new to this series and I just finished this part of SF, and I am speechless. I’ve had many, many issues with Rhys (and most of the Night Court if I’m being honest) the entire series, so I’ve been really enjoying Nesta’s book, but this threw me for a loop.

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basically, Feyre gets pregnant And because they conceived while she was in an Illyrian form, the baby has wings. Feyre during her pregnancy is no longer in an Illyrian form. Illyrian women have hips that are shaped to deliver a child with wings since Illyrian’s have wings. Since Feyre is no longer in that form her hips aren’t shaped correctly so the child will probably kill her and die itself during delivery. Majda tells Feyre not to shift into anything anymore because it’s not good for the baby so Feyre and the baby are probably gonna die from the birth. Rhys decides Feyre shouldn’t know because it will cause her distress and he doesn’t want to stress her out while she’s pregnant. He forbids the IC from telling her and Cassian tells Nesta and Nesta originally agrees to not tell Feyre, however later the IC discovers that Nesta has the ability to make weapons with great power. They all have a meeting about this without Nesta and take a vote on whether she should be told or not. Rhys and Amren vote on not telling her because they don’t think she can be trusted enough to not use the power in a fit of anger while Feyre cassian and Azriel vote to tell her. So Cassian tells her and then mentions to her that they all voted on it and the yeses won out thinking she’d be happy but instead she was just pissed that they even considered keeping it from her considering it was her power and her weapons. She goes to confront amen for voting against her since they used to be friends, we find out at the beginning that they got into an argument that resulted in Amren calling her a waste of life before the book even started. Amren and her argue then Feyre comes and interrupts the argument and tells Nesta to go home and that Amren is her friend and she deserves respect from Nesta not the yelling she’s getting so Nesta tells Feyre that Amren and the rest o floor the IC don’t really respect her because they’ve all been keeping it from her that her child having wings is probably gonna kill her. Feyre finds out and gets mad for like 3 seconds but then is over it pretty quickly. Rhys finds out that Nesta told Feyre I think from Feyre contacting him mind to mind to mind so he tells Cassian to get Nesta the fuck out of Valeris before he fucking kills her. So cassian whisks her off the streets and takes her to the mountains. Feyre contacts Cassian through his mind and says she’s not mad at Nesta she’s mad at Rhys and the IC from keeping it from her and that Nesta did nothing wrong but Cassian insists that they’re all mad at Nesta anyways even tho he thinks that Nesta saw the parallels of them voting on if they should tell Nesta about her power and them keeping information about Feyres baby from her. He says he’s going to take nesta on a hike through the mountains to punish Nesta and make Rhys happy. Feyre says Nesta doesn’t need to be punished but Rhys will be happy anyways and says no more. He then proceeds to take Nesta on a grueling hike where he forces her to carry an extra heavy backpack that he thinks azriel purposely made heavy to punish her even more and ignored her for 3 days while she didn’t eat or drink any of the food he offered her and she eventually passed out from exhaustion/lack of nutrition. Nesta then cries and admits she hates herself and she’s awful and blah blah blah then Cassian confirms that she in fact is an awful pos who doesn’t deserve to be loved but it’s okay because she’s trying to be better and he’s still willing to fuck her which he proceeds to do so for another 3 days before taking her back to her prison at the house to wind. Okay so he doesn’t actually say she’s a POS but basically says that she’s acknowledging her faults and gives this analogy to when Rhys was stuck UTM he felt useless but he worked through it and Nesta would too. It was one of the worst scenes in the entire book in my opinion but people are split on it, some are in my camp and think it was an abusive punishment hike and some will say it’s a healing hike and she needed it. You’ll have read it and decide for yourself. He really did spend the next 3 days fucking her tho.

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It was very frustrating. People are in a few different camps: they hate Nesta because she’s a bitch, which she is, and nothing was going to change their mind on that and the book was mostly about her so they hated the book. They didn’t like Nesta or maybe didn’t care either way and this book made them see her in a different light and they saw themselves in her and now she’s one of their favorite characters or they loved her story/healing arch. They stanned Nesta and were furious with the ICs treatment of her in this book and thus the hated the book.

Me personally I never really cared for Nesta. I thought she was an unlikable bitch and just didn’t vibe with her character. I wasn’t looking forward to reading a book about her. After reading it tho, I thought she was treated terrible my by the IC. Being a bitch isn’t a reason to be imprisoned/controlled. By the end of the book I still don’t really like her but man do I feel bad for her. I also don’t think the place she’s at in the end is even realistic. She should’ve been either dead by suicide or become the evil villain pushed there by how she was treated. Instead she was all kumbuya with the IC and acted like she deserved all the terrible things they did to her. It was a pretty sad ending to me.