Give the Dark My Love by Beth RevisMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
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Like, Why Are You So Obsessed With Me?
I feel a need to address the elephant in the room. For someone that hates the ACOTAR series as much as I do, I sure do talk about it a lot, don't I?
I'm willing to admit that I'm somewhat hyper-focused on it, in a sense, but trust me, there's sound reasoning behind it.
First, love it or hate it, you can't deny that the books are a behemoth in the YA/Fantasy world, and publishing in general. They're a phenomenon, for good or ill (mostly ill, but more on that later), so it's difficult not to judge other works in comparison. Everyone wants to the next biggest thing, and right now these books are one of the biggest things.
Second, they were a gateway for me that led to other books I eventually wound up admiring and valuing more. ACOMAF was probably the first book with smut I ever read, and it eventually led me to realize that hey I kind of like it so let me read more (I did, and let me tell you in hindsight the vaunted Chapter 55 is a joke). It introduced me to the joys of Fae fantasy, and without it I would never had discovered The Folk of the Air books, which are straight up one of my favorites of all time now.
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