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Nesta and Cassian ultimately got together inA Court of Silver Flames , but sure picture in their tarradiddle have made it much harder to settle for them . Nesta and Cassian have been one of the books ' many will - they - or - won’t - they relationships across theCourt of Thorns and Rosestimeline , finally consummate their relationship and declaring their love in the most late book , A Court of Silver Flames . Getting there took a while , however .
On the surface , Nesta and Cassian are oil colour and water . He ’s open and gay and she ’s abrupt and closed off . Even so , the record book made it clear betimes on that they were destined to be together . Still , it can sometimes be operose to root for Nesta and Cassian as a couplebecause their path to romance has been so fraught that that romance is n’t entirely believable . ThenextCourt of Thorns and Rosesbookwill have to work hard to right the relationship wrong ofA Court of Silver Flames .
There are several wild theories about A Court of Thorns and Roses & there are a few heavy ones I really hope are proven right in the next ACOTAR book .
A Court Of Silver Flames Fails To Sell Cassian & Nesta’s Love Story
They Barely Spend Any Meaningful Time Together
The problem with Cassian and Nesta ’s sexual love story inA Court of Silver Flamesis that there really is n’t one . Nothing about Nesta and Cassian ’s family relationship evoke anything other than the chroma of the pairing bond and lust , but that ’s not love . Sure , their sex scenes are erotic and descriptive , but even their sexuality seems to be wild ; there ’s little honey there , either .
The ACOTAR serial has seriously underutilized some fascinating lineament , but a lover theory arrange up the perfect arc for one badly wasted case .
It does n’t help oneself thatthe previous books did n’t really set up a likely love match for Nesta and Cassian , either . Nesta spent most of the first two books being thorny and unlikable and after her father was killed , she got even worse . At best , she was a carapace of a person , spend her day in a daze of alcohol fog or random men in her bottom . During that time , the people of Cassian ’s privileged lot seldom take care her as she sequestered herself out at the far side of township .
Nesta finally crawls out of her well of grief and starts breeding with Cassian and Azriel . Even after she does , however , she has footling time with Cassian that is n’t just education or scrap . Quite frankly , the twain just do n’t have a mountain of meter to get to know each other in a meaningful and intimate way . The vast majority of their time is spent with either Nesta agitate Cassian away or Cassian being spoil with Nesta . Yet somehow , as the Holy Scripture indicate , Cassian knows Nesta better than anyone , despite not experience her at all . That ’s just not how people or relationships crop .
Yet somehow , as the book indicate , Cassian have a go at it Nesta well than anyone , despite not cognize her at all . That ’s just not how masses or kinship work .
Why A Court Of Silver Flames Makes It So Hard To Root For Nesta & Cassian
Their Relationship Isn’t At All Healthy
A Court of Silver Flamesleans a little too much into the old , misguided image that incessant fight and being mean to one another just stand for two people are in love but unable to vocalise it . As name above , they’re always press , and neither pulls any punch . Nesta , specially in her mourning period , is peculiarly brutal and cruel in her trim down retort . For his part , Cassian is only a little bit better .
A Court of Silver Flamesleans a trivial too much into the old , mistaken trope that constant scrap and being mean to one another just mean two people are in love but unable to voice it .
To be frank , their family relationship is n’t all that static . Nesta spend a good portion of the novel being awful , but she was the only one in the rightfulness when she told Feyre that giving birth would kill her sister . Nesta told Feyre in a moment of anger and thwarting , but she was n’t wrong to tell her . Still , everyone else acts as though Nesta is the one being unreasonable , and she believes it . When Cassian gets her out of the metropolis and accept her on their prospicient wage increase to skirt Rhysand ’s wrath , Nesta even believes that Cassian is taking her out of the urban center to down her . That is not , by any definition , a level-headed relationship .
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A Court of Thorns & Roses
2015
A Court of Mist & Fury
2016
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A Court of Wings & Ruin
2017
A Court of Frost & Starlight
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2018
A Court of Silver Flames
2021
A Court of TBD
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How Sarah J. Maas Can Improve Their Relationship In Future ACOTAR Books
They Need To Have Honest, Intimate Scenes Together
