The folk of the air trilogy is frustirating

before I start I need to make one thing clear, I reeealy don't like this series.

I first hear about this series on booktok. It was usually mentioned in passing, it looked kind of intersting. I originally thought this was connected to acotar (main characters loolk very similar), I don't really like romance and that stuff didn't really intreseted me at the time. I later found out it wasn't connected to acotar and was actually a super complex fantasy story with a moraly grey main female character! I was like "wow! that sound fun! I mean, I also (kind of) found about grishaverse books on the internet! Surely this book won't be teribble!"

İt was teribble

so let me explain in detial why this series teribble!

Note:This is a review of the trilogy and trilogy alone, I'll not be covering any spinoff books or other series that takes place in same world. My reasoning for this 1) If I need to read an extre book to understand a major characters basic motivations, than that means the books themself did bad job at basic character writting. 2)I'm not critising HB's fae and their world in general, I'm just critising how these thing are exucuted in these books

Book one

Book two

Book three

Characters (or lack there of)

The title for this section is kinda misleading. The problem I have with the character of tfota isn't that there aren't enough, it's there are too many who don't consistanly matter to the story. I say consistanly because sometimes characters are super important for a while but later get droped pf as they weren't to begin with. for ex; Locke is set up to be a big personal antoginist to jude in the second book after his betraly, only to be killed off page in the third and never come up agian. But other than those instenses there are a lot of characters who are intruduced to be fill a role only to not be able to fill that rule fully because they never really get much page time and there are like 5 diferent characters who are also trying to fill that role

Before I get into certian character anlysis, here are some honorable mentions

Grimamog:

Val moren:

Bomb/Roach: Saying these characters

Ghost

Taryn

Ok, I'm going to defend taryn in here for a while.

Vivien & Madoc

Locke

So this is more of a personal interption but I always thought of locke as more of a grey charcter.

In the first book, he was good

Cardan & Jude

Worldbuilding

Conculsion

Even thought I might came off as agressive, I don't think this is the worst book in the existence. But it was the most disappointing piece of media I've came across, finishing this series was worse than watching the percy jackson's 2010s movie adaption. This review is just exist so can FİNALY put this series behind me and not think about it ever again. As I said in the review, I did actually really enjoyed this series at the begining. I'm not a hard person to impress and I lot of my fave book are also the ones I'm the most critical of(the school for good and evil, the sucide shop). However, tfota some how manages have all of it's part be very bad and also ruin the very few thing that were good (I'm still so angry about the ghost retcon).

Tfota is a series that promises a lot and a lot of the time it SEEMS like it's actually going to deliver only to not do that or do it in the most boring and unintresting way possiable. Tfota ia series that likes to prasie itself for "exploring morallty" when in actualltily the book just tells you a character is complex and refuses to actually explore that complexity. Everything is pretty halfbaked tbh.

If you like Jude and like seeing her do "cool shit" then you'll enjoy this book but it's really nothing more than that