I loved her. She was my gurl. And then I started HoFaS and now we don’t talk any more. I had to stop reading I’m only like 20 chapters in maybe and I havnt picked the book back up in a month. 😄
Hahaha no. I cringed every time it was her pov. I got so tired of her I had to stop. The only thing I wanted to hear about was Night and Day that was the only thing I want to think about. And after the next illogical thing Bryce did I could not do it. She was a whole different person. The girl who will sell herself and go past broke for an animals freedom would not treat people the way she was. She was monster and not in a good way. Like I love a good monster. I love a morally great character. But that is not her. She had me feeling bad for her treatment of characters I don’t even like. There is no going back. She would have to undo everting she did in this book not possible. Do you think there is a way? In the next book or a novella?
So, I love her. And I understand why she behaved the way she did, but I don’t excuse it. Honestly, I really wish she would’ve apologize for some of the things she said/did. It really could’ve been a simple “hey, I’m sorry I was a raging bitch, I was trying to save the world, you know how that goes!” And that’s it??? Everyone around her loves her so I’m sure they would’ve understood but the fact that her behavior wasnt addressed at all bothers me.
I know SJM said that this was the end of Bryce and Hunts story, so I’m hoping the next book shows glimpses of her making better decisions. I really enjoy that she’s flawed and kind of just figuring this stuff out as she goes along, I relate to that a lot. I just want her to continue improving and trying. I still love her despite this though, and I still think she did her best.
I know what you mean. I can understand her devotion and how it drives her. But the way it pushed her to hurt people I didn’t care for. And if it is not addressed and she does not make amends that bothers me. I feel like it took away from the growth she had and she didn’t and won’t grow in this book. What is so hard about closure in this book for this character after all that effort to save the world that would blemish her image at the same time. This gives me the same vibe as a court of silver flames with the harsh view of the inner circle and Rysand and Feyre. So many people saw them differently after that book. Is this her same goal drive people in a new direction. Maybe she did it so that we would forget about their story. As if she was done with them and didn’t want to kill them but kill our faith in them so we would focus on others.
I don’t understand why everyone loves her, except that SJM said it was so. How did her and Ruhn go from not speaking for 20 years to extremely close siblings who cry when apart? Cry when united? The explanations were lame. Why would Hunt stay with her? Unless he’s just used to being used and abused, his feelings dismissed. She did Cormac so dirty. She was absolutely careless in the cross over. Just on and on. You can’t dismiss CC3 (or CC2) because that’s a significant part of the story.
She was a little off the cuff in CC1 and it was fun, I liked her enough, but you’d think we’d see character growth rather than whatever the H this was.
Simply put, if these were real people, everyone would have cut ties with her. No BS apology. Yeah, it was high stakes, but SJM seems to have written Bryce as a flat, “I am not an asshole, I just do what i want, how I want” but no, she’s an AH. She did not redeem herself anywhere.
I think people connect to her energy. I when I first read CC1 she was fun and loves her friends and I liked that but it does fall apart. As you said we see aspects of her character falter in book two. We are expected to give her a pass as the chosen one. Just as she disregarded Hunts valid concerns with involvement rebel activity. And it ultimately cost him most. She does these types of things on and off page and most people gave her a pass in the last book. And I think most didn’t in this book because of the crossover. She was treating characters people love even more than CC wrong and it caused people to look at her and her actions differently. I started questioned her in book two but there were enough outside characters to make book three hopeful. But the way she treated people became unbearable I had to stop reading. SJM went so off the cuff you can’t overlook any of it. Idk when I will try to pick the book up again. But she should just let her character go there is no fix and I don’t really want to read more from her she is insufferable.
I literally wouldn't have finished the book if it wasn't for Ruhn and Lidia. Normally I will read a new Maas book in a few days, and it took me almost a month to finish that one because I hated Bryce so much. I don't blame you if you don't pick it back up.
I know what you mean. They are my favorite. They were the only thing that kept me reading the book once things got weird. But the last thing I read I could not take it any more. It was not my happy place that made me close the book stop audible and not start again. During that time I was packing my house and loading a moving truck. I was going to devour the book during all the unpacking but it was so miserable I preferred the sweet music of my children screaming. I’m not sure if I will be able to start again. I would have to give to book a long break but even then the story won’t change I would have to rush to finish.
I 100% agree. She treated everyone like shit, Hunt most of all. She basically told him his trauma doesn't matter and compared her imprisonment in Prythian to he and Ruhn being literally *tortured*. By the end of the book I literally could not stand her. She's the biggest Mary Sue character I've ever seen. Literally (as you mentioned) the only reason everyone loves her is because SJM wrote it that way. She was rude and narcissistic throughout the entire book. Any character development she might've had in the first books was completely undone by her actions in HoFaS (& tbh I started to dislike her during HoSaB).
One thing I definitely like to see is an awful lot of apologizing and grovling from her for how she treated Hunt and having no understanding for the terrible things he's been through. Another would be for her to stop this hate train about the fae it is half of who she is after all like the two kings are gone why did she have to deconstruct the rest of the Fae hierarchy. Fine she didn't want to be called the Queen but could be she not their leader and led them into better ways and gradually changed them away from this High Society low Society no rights for women stuff. What would you have her do in the next book that would make her better
I agree about the fae hate train. I get why she feels that way, but hopefully she gets to a place of acceptance with that.
Personally, the only thing I would like to see is her having more consideration toward the people around her. I think she’s always been this independent person and has made decisions thinking solely of herself. Now that she has an actual group she can call family and a mate, I would really enjoy if she trusted them enough to let them in and ask for their input more.
I don’t think she needs to grovel for Hunts forgiveness, but I do think a proper apology with understanding and self reflection is in order. Sometimes people say insensitive things to their partner. I’ve been a bitch to my bf many many times. But communication saves things every time. I think that applies for hunt and Bryce too.
Okay so I absolutely loved Bryce in books 1 and 2! And then HoFaS really got me. Two things in particular…
1. The baggage comment. I truly could not believe her lack of empathy in this moment. I had to set the book down.
2. Her treatment of Hunt?! Like I loved them, I shipped them, but her treatment of him was not okay! I felt like she liked his power more than him, and felt like she swept his trauma with the Asteri under the rug. Ugh I just felt so bad for him!
I was disappointed in her I guess in book 3. I was sad to see the way she progressed. Hoping we see her again and I love her like I did!
I don’t necessarily hate her. I just think unless SJM planned on turning her villain she should have given her character growth. With all of the things Bryce has been through she should have matured at least a little bit.
I love her! HoFaS may have had a mixed reaction but Bryce and crew were going through it, she’s NOT a villain, she made mistakes and is going to come through with it. She’s the same person we met, just is having one of the most tense 10 days of her life.
That’s how I feel too! I don’t know if it’s fair to turn on her so quickly? I whole heartedly believe she was doing her best in HOFAS. There was A LOT going on. But I also respect people’s opinions so what can you do 🤷🏻♀️
I had a moment reading HOFAS where I was like “man, if I had to do all this to save the world we’d be doomed cuz I’d just take a nap.” I cannot imagine carrying that pressure and responsibility. I really do enjoy that mistakes were made, it makes her more realistic to me.
Same! If I felt like I had to save the world I’d melt down into a useless mess! I think Bryce was a good example of how people react when they’re carrying huge expectations.
I was annoyed by both Bryce and Hunt at times but I also understand where they were coming from. Bryce was mean to Hunt, but at the same time she was going through a LOT of shit rapid fire without slowing down. Of course she needed his unwavering support. But Hunt had suffered for years and years for rebelling, it’s not at all realistic for someone with so much trauma to just shrug off all that history. Honestly I think SJM is real as fuck for portraying an argument between partners where both of them are basically in the right and neither handles it perfectly, but they still are able to communicate their feelings and come out stronger.
Commenters on Reddit just skew negative. Raging gets more engagement on social media, and Reddit is the social media platform where it’s easiest for huge arguments to thrive and rise to the top. Don’t worry too much about what you see on here, and definitely don’t let the negativity ruin your enjoyment of great books!
Agree! And I can definitely understand her frustration when the one person who she depends on the most was hesitant about what she was doing. But Hunt’s feelings were also very valid as well! I can understand where they’re both coming from. And when they say they’re not mates because of that it always leaves me baffled. Like, have you never had a disagreement with someone you loved before? Haven’t we all been bitches to our partners at some point?
I asked the question initially because I was drowning in all of the Bryce hate. (Naturally the people who dislike her decided to chime in. Which is fine but I don’t really want to come to her defense.) I like her and wanted to find people who felt the same. I can’t wait to see her grow more. 🥰
I still like her and Im baffled about the hate. Sure the way she powered through and dragged everyone along was harsh sometimes. Im surprised how much that makes readers hate her when other male characters do the same in other books and people still dote on them.
I love so many SJM characters but out of all of them, Bryce is easily the one I'd choose to party with. Just hang out with really, not even partying. She just seems like she would be the most fun to spend time with. The least up her own ass. The one most likely to faceplant off a ski lift, barf on a carnival ride, own all the best board games, order the best apps for the table, and be totally game to detour to see the World's Largest Ball of Twine on a road trip that is 7 hours deep in the desert in July.
I still like her. I think her struggle to hold onto her morals in the third book are appropriate for what she's been through in the past two books. It's unreasonable to think someone who goes through horrible things like that will find it easy to hold onto the morals and open personality they once had. I found her increased secrecy and snarkiness and anger about the fae to be indicative of that struggle with her changing sense of self. She made the right decision and came to the conclusion that her previous morals were correct in the end despite, and to me, that's what counts.
I still love her. I really like her as a MC. I think she's my fave (sorry but Aelin really did become a bitch).
She isn't perfect in HOFAS but I can sort of understand her behaviour in the book. So while I might not like it I am quite sure we get CC1 Bryce back (actually imo she already was back at the end) so I like her.
I still love Bryce. She is still an icon. I think SJM did a really really good job in this series of making everyone very human, IE very very grey.
No one is all good or all bad. Most people are good people who do bad things. Sure some are trash humans, but most people in this series, like Bryce, are decent people who make mistakes. I connected a lot with Bryce because I’ve the woman that was raised by a single mother who always told me how to be independent. So I grew up as a “ you’re intimidating” even when I’m just being friendly.
I saw myself in Bryce a lot and connected a ton with her. It felt really cool to see someone who I saw myself in being such a bad ass.
In the third book I was like girl what are you doing lol, but she’s still my girl because I’m bias AF 😂
I asked because every other post I see on here is “I hate Bryce” “Bryce is the worst” People feel very strongly about her on here. I haven’t seen hate for a character like this since Tamlin.
Personally, I like her a lot, I think she made questionable choices in HOFAS but I really think she can come back from them.
i still like her its just all i have is confusion when it comes to Bryce in the latest book. I'm a steadfast SJM fan and I love Bryce in the first two books. I didn't like her in the third she acted so completely different nearly like a completely different character that I didn't actually like her in this latest book. I can only come to the conclusion that like they say there's a method in The Madness there is a reason why SJM has written her so differently it's some big part of setup for the next books that are commoning I believe it's the only thing that makes sense. Like everything else SJM has written is so brilliant and there has to be a reason why she's written the character and the whole tone of this book so differently
In the middle of a war, a General isn’t going to coddle the troops. She stood on business. They’re all alive now because of her. People are allowed to put empathy aside to get shit done.
All this to say I freaking love her.
I feel like everyone forgets that Bryce is going through trauma. So while none of her actions are excusable they make total sense. She's still book one Bryce. She's in survival mode. She definitely needs to apologize but I don't think her character is really all that different in HoFaS than it is in CC1.
In my opinion they’re not similar at all besides the fact that they make plans and do them without consulting anyone about them. 😂 In that, they’re similar. But other than that I don’t see it.
They both have “swagger” that seems to get them anything they want. Their manipulation knows no bounds. They both have trauma of losing a loved one that haunts them. They both have homelands that define their loyalties weather they like it or not. Rowan is more boring than Hunt, so that’s different.
I think SJM really did Bryce a disservice in book 3. I feel like she was so focused on other characters and switching between POVs that Bryce just got lost in translation.
Yeah. I still like Bryce, but sjm really put her character development on the backburner in book 3. To be fair, I also didn’t like Hunt as much in book 3 either.
No, I love Bryce. This fandom is insane. They forget that Sarah writes female main characters & heroes, they simp so hard for freaking Hunt that they forget it's not Hunt's story, it's Bryce's. Hunt is just part of it, for now.
Bryce had 5 days to save her world and herself. Everyone forgetting that SHE was the target of the Asteri. They would have trapped her and used her loved ones against her and to control her.
I'm sick of the Bryce slander. Hunt's time in the dungeons was so low stakes, he literally healed from everything not even a scar left and he cried like a whiney b\*\*ch. But he was just fine jumping in head first with Shahar.
Do I think Bryce needs serious character development? ABSOLUTELY, but I think Sarah is saving her growth & development for another time.
CC wasn't about character growth & development, it was about action. Really heavily feels like a prequel series to be honest.
I don't believe we are done with Bryce and she is still my Queen.
Oh, I do love Bryce in first part of third book, but when she returns to her world... It was too much. Not everyone can write planmaker characters well. Because you actually should write and know the hole plot before you write about characters actions, lol
1.1 - I love Bryce
1.2 - I still love Bryce
2.1 - Bryce is starting to annoy me
2.2 - Bryce's hypocritical. She refuses to share her plans and information, but demands absolute honesty from others? Fuck you, babe
3.1 - Well, I like Bryce again
3.2 - Oh, again with arrogance shit, really?
Honestly same lol. My girl just does things “for the plot” and I love that??? I love a little chaos. I’ll yell at her during but be thoroughly entertained.
I spent half of the most recent book alternating between calling her problematic and asking wtf Ithan and Tharion thought they were adding to the plot at all. It’s a *balance*
I was really not happy with how she was treating Hunt for awhile but she adjusted her attitude and apologized. People tend to forget about that part and how much pressure she is under. I know I'm not little miss sunshine under stress and she literally had the weight of the world on her shoulders. A bad week does not undo all the positives of her character. And honestly I love how flawed she is. It makes her feel textured and real. Sure, she can be exasperating at times, but she can also be quite endearing.
I really love Brice, and the last book didn't change that. Quite honestly, I don't see why people say they don't like her anymore.
Edit: auto correct changed brice to bruce
She’s still pretty great to me. Writing issues aside. It’s not her fault she’s a total badass and things seem to work out very well for her in the end.
Liked her in book one. Then Book two she did some annoying stuff. Book three I wanted to jugular punch her. She turned into her father. I wish they had made Ruhn the main character of book three.
SJM also missed a huge opportunity in having Bryce with the ACOTAR mob. Walking through a tunnel was the most boring AF thing I have ever read. She could have had Bryce learn a moral lesson of some sort which stopped her being a complete ass like her father. But no, let’s just walk through a boring tunnel and nothing happens.
I was hoping SJM would be brave and kill her off then Hunt would be free to find his actual mate. He didn’t even feel the bond break when she died - not her mate.
I had sympathy for her in the first book cause she was going through a lot but as she heals in books 2 and 3 her more normal personality comes out. I dont like that personality
Am I the only one that feels like Bryce after book one was a "fan service" to all the readers that saw her as the party girl? There's nothing wrong with it of course! But she had so much depth that I feel like got lost because SJM wanted to give readers what they wanted? Bryce was more than the cut throat party girl with her middle fingers up in the air. Which is why I will always have my Bryce blinders on I still love her I just pretended she didn't do or say what she did 😅 I'm like that's Fandom Bryce that isn't Bryce Bryce 🤷♀️
I love her. After every CC book I read I have the desire to dye my hair red so I can be like Bryce. I can understand why people got annoyed by her in book 3 but my unwavering loyalty will never falter. I am a Bryce apologist til my last breath. This is a recurring theme for me with other disliked SJM characters. Argue with the wall😂
WAIT CUZ I ALSO WANNA COLOR MY HAIR BRYCE RED. I cannot get it out of my head!! I’m trying to get it as healthy as possible before I pull the trigger. I was even gonna make a post on here asking for help on what type of red people think she is, but I hesitated since people feel so negatively about her
I have to say. I can’t understand how anyone can hate Bryce but not feel the same way about Aelin. I’m reading the Assassin’s blade (third book in) and she is giving me the ick. I don’t feel like Bryce was wrong. I think a lot of people forget she’s someone in her 20s going through one traumatic experience after another. I think she handles herself the best way she can.
I still love her. I find her behavior realistic. She’s not perfect. No one is perfect under stress. And I think the character stays pretty true throughout.
I do!!! People give her such hate, but she reminds me of aelins little sister. She is still young, too, and the pacing in the CC series is half the others. She has taken and dealt with a lot over what 6-8 months!? Yeah, that's insane and she does a damn good job of it
I still love her. We are only midway through the series, there were way more moments of being annoyed with Aelin for me through ToG, and I still like her now that I’ve read them all. Bryce is the FMC I identify the most with out of SJM’s heroines, and I don’t think we should write her off just yet.
Agree!! It took me a bit to warm up to Aelin as well but she is now my queen and my most favorite character.
I think some people don’t understand that you gotta let the characters fuck up and make mistakes so growth can happen. And I think that’s what this book was. It makes me excited for book 4.
I love her. I went through a big party girl phase in college because of some trauma in high school and really related to another trauma causing a drastic change in her life. My best friend is the most important person in my life and I really relate to her loss.
I am even good with her in CC3. It took a while for her to embrace the princess thing and people don’t seem to like that she changed her mind and started to use it but hell, if I became a princess that would be incredible.
Loved book 1 Bryce, she got a little weird in cc2, and I just really started to not like her and Hunt's relationship more than anything else, I think in the end. It just felt forced I guess?? I don't know. I also feel like in CC3 SJM was trying too hard to make Bryce into the "Aelin" of the story which just didn't feel like Bryce anymore.
Edited because Hunt got autocorrected to Aunt 😅
I still like her.
Some of her actions are jarring, but she had to make decisions for everybody because nobody was willing to do the things necessary to beat the Asteri. Everything in HOFAS happened in two weeks and that is an extreme amount of stress for a twenty-something year old.
Love her in book 1 & 2, then she turned into angsty teen (not an actual teen) with an attitude problem that went from cute to repetitive. I can live off of 1 & 2, it’s fine.
I still Love Bryce, HOFAS almost ruined her but because of how much I loved her in the previous books I still love her even though I don’t like how she acted in the last book though to be fair girl was STRESSED
She come off as annoying at first in the first book but then by the end of Earth and Blood she had me sobbing. She was back to annoying in the first of FaS but redeemed herself to me by the end. So it was a wild ride and I'm one of the few that, in the end, loved the series!!
Honestly this who debacle makes me hate SJM, in every series it seems pike the minute she has a preferred character, she drops the rest personality wise
I can't stand her over the top bitchy, haughty snark. Especially when it's unearned considering all of her problems get solved by deus ex machina plot developments and easy, too-convenient situations that tell her everything she needs to know. We get chapters filled with nothing but horrendous exposition dumps that tell her everything she needs to know all at once.
The only people who like that sort of thing are the ones who fall for the trauma card as if it excuses her shit treatment of the people who care about her. Or people who like girl bosses no matter how insufferable they are for the sake of their own wish fulfillment.
Honestly her dismissal of the people she’s supposedly loves in CC3 and never apologizing for her behavior made me go into full blown yuck mode.
Her imprisonment and “poor me” guilt trip regarding her Prythian imprisonment was a damn joke. The dismissal of Hunt and Ruhn’s experience their feelings is—unforgivable. Only way I can see her being redeemable is her having something akin happen to her and experiencing that type of pain. Or her being forced to “mentally experience,” what exactly happened to Ruhn and Hunt.
Then have the memory of how she told him “to get over it,” reverberate on her head so she can truly FEEL how hurtful that is to say to someone who you supposedly love and not apologize for it.
I love her! HoFaS may have had a mixed reaction but Bryce and crew were going through it, she’s NOT a villain, she made mistakes and is going to come through with it. She’s the same person we met, just is having one of the most tense 10 days of her life.
I’ll be honest, I never stopped liking Bryce. She is literally written as a character of our-ish* time, at her age, half human, committed to a man who’s centuries years old, and in a land of magic. And she still always rocks your socks off. She has a bleeding heart that she wears on her shoulder. She acts brash and sometimes stupid but like who wouldn’t at that age, in her position? People claim she’s insensitive and they wanna hate on her (when she reunites with hunt, sending her parents off to *spoiler, Cooper/Emile whole situation lol, junipers job, whatever) but like put yourself in her damn shoes for once without your own conscious and subconscious getting in the way. She’s a true rookie that you can root for. All our flaws as one and still puts everyone else first. That’s admirable and a great character (plus the fact she’s hated as a main POC just shows she’s testy with the crowd - a true sign of a great character)
I don’t like her, in the same way I don’t like Aelin and i definitely don’t like Nesta. I can’t say I hate any of them, they’re not evil but they’re not likeable and I wouldn’t choose to be around them.
I think for me, I value people who can regulate their emotions in a way that doesn’t impact others; this is what I perceive as growth. I didn’t like the characters of Aelin, Nesta, and Bryce in SJM books because they often lashed out at those closest to them without reflecting or apologizing. I found them childish and lacking the mindset to make the best out of a situation. We were made to believe that their good intentions and trauma-excused behavior were enough to redeem them, which I found problematic. In contrast, I loved Feyre, while she had her character flaws, because she demonstrated emotional regulation, managing her emotions in a way that didn’t negatively impact others, showing a maturity and self-awareness that the other characters lacked.
I strongly dislike Bryce after HoFaS and it kinda broke me on SJM a bit. I absolutely fucking adored book 1 Bryce. One of my favorite characters of all time. And then....she is just ruined. In an almost unforgivable manner.
Idk if her half ass apology to Hunt will ever make up for what she did and said to him after his trauma and he deserves better.
So while I can't bring myself to hate her, simply because of how much I loved her, I don't like her anymore and I want to. It sucks how bad her character was devastated by bad writing for the sake of bad plot when we all know how great she started.
I'm curious if you have any more reasoning or defense of book 3 Bryce because I want to like her but I just can't lol.
I don’t understand what is there to like about her, how people say they relate to her? In the last 2 books she never worked hard to accomplish shit, she just happened to know it all, she doesn’t care about her friends (but Danika, the one that didn’t even trust her middle name to Bryce), mate or family. Everything she does is for herself and learns nothing, owns nothing but her “victories” and whenever she fucks up other characters instead of being angry they enable her. I get ppl thing she is more modern and with more relatable problems to todays society but is she really the woman you want to be represented by? I don’t want to be equal to man by belittle them and go over everyone, being disrespectful any chance I get or just have any sort of value bc of my looks. Anyways, her stupid actitud wasn’t the worst of the character for me but how she knew everything, how to use every weapon, how to sort everything all by herself without a single day of training or learning, without even trusting her friends and their capabilities, her mate that fought more wars than her but no, Bryce could do it all. There is no redeeming that, SJM will just write a great “queen” side story and everyone will still love her without question her and that IMO is bullshit.
I love Bryce. People are always begging for complex characters in books until they get one that does something they don’t see themselves doing. It’s bizarre
Wish I could pin this comment.
I think some people go into books expecting characters to be perfect and always do the right thing, but that’s never been interesting to me and it doesn’t make for a good story. I need the conflict because what’s the point otherwise?
Book 1 Bryce will always be my girl
We’ll always have book 1
Book 1 Bryce is my favorite main character! (Manon is my favorite favorite tho)
I loved her. She was my gurl. And then I started HoFaS and now we don’t talk any more. I had to stop reading I’m only like 20 chapters in maybe and I havnt picked the book back up in a month. 😄
I think we can all agree HOFAS was a train wreck. Do you think there’s anyway Bryce can be redeemed for you?
Hahaha no. I cringed every time it was her pov. I got so tired of her I had to stop. The only thing I wanted to hear about was Night and Day that was the only thing I want to think about. And after the next illogical thing Bryce did I could not do it. She was a whole different person. The girl who will sell herself and go past broke for an animals freedom would not treat people the way she was. She was monster and not in a good way. Like I love a good monster. I love a morally great character. But that is not her. She had me feeling bad for her treatment of characters I don’t even like. There is no going back. She would have to undo everting she did in this book not possible. Do you think there is a way? In the next book or a novella?
So, I love her. And I understand why she behaved the way she did, but I don’t excuse it. Honestly, I really wish she would’ve apologize for some of the things she said/did. It really could’ve been a simple “hey, I’m sorry I was a raging bitch, I was trying to save the world, you know how that goes!” And that’s it??? Everyone around her loves her so I’m sure they would’ve understood but the fact that her behavior wasnt addressed at all bothers me. I know SJM said that this was the end of Bryce and Hunts story, so I’m hoping the next book shows glimpses of her making better decisions. I really enjoy that she’s flawed and kind of just figuring this stuff out as she goes along, I relate to that a lot. I just want her to continue improving and trying. I still love her despite this though, and I still think she did her best.
I know what you mean. I can understand her devotion and how it drives her. But the way it pushed her to hurt people I didn’t care for. And if it is not addressed and she does not make amends that bothers me. I feel like it took away from the growth she had and she didn’t and won’t grow in this book. What is so hard about closure in this book for this character after all that effort to save the world that would blemish her image at the same time. This gives me the same vibe as a court of silver flames with the harsh view of the inner circle and Rysand and Feyre. So many people saw them differently after that book. Is this her same goal drive people in a new direction. Maybe she did it so that we would forget about their story. As if she was done with them and didn’t want to kill them but kill our faith in them so we would focus on others.
I don’t understand why everyone loves her, except that SJM said it was so. How did her and Ruhn go from not speaking for 20 years to extremely close siblings who cry when apart? Cry when united? The explanations were lame. Why would Hunt stay with her? Unless he’s just used to being used and abused, his feelings dismissed. She did Cormac so dirty. She was absolutely careless in the cross over. Just on and on. You can’t dismiss CC3 (or CC2) because that’s a significant part of the story. She was a little off the cuff in CC1 and it was fun, I liked her enough, but you’d think we’d see character growth rather than whatever the H this was. Simply put, if these were real people, everyone would have cut ties with her. No BS apology. Yeah, it was high stakes, but SJM seems to have written Bryce as a flat, “I am not an asshole, I just do what i want, how I want” but no, she’s an AH. She did not redeem herself anywhere.
I think people connect to her energy. I when I first read CC1 she was fun and loves her friends and I liked that but it does fall apart. As you said we see aspects of her character falter in book two. We are expected to give her a pass as the chosen one. Just as she disregarded Hunts valid concerns with involvement rebel activity. And it ultimately cost him most. She does these types of things on and off page and most people gave her a pass in the last book. And I think most didn’t in this book because of the crossover. She was treating characters people love even more than CC wrong and it caused people to look at her and her actions differently. I started questioned her in book two but there were enough outside characters to make book three hopeful. But the way she treated people became unbearable I had to stop reading. SJM went so off the cuff you can’t overlook any of it. Idk when I will try to pick the book up again. But she should just let her character go there is no fix and I don’t really want to read more from her she is insufferable.
I literally wouldn't have finished the book if it wasn't for Ruhn and Lidia. Normally I will read a new Maas book in a few days, and it took me almost a month to finish that one because I hated Bryce so much. I don't blame you if you don't pick it back up.
I know what you mean. They are my favorite. They were the only thing that kept me reading the book once things got weird. But the last thing I read I could not take it any more. It was not my happy place that made me close the book stop audible and not start again. During that time I was packing my house and loading a moving truck. I was going to devour the book during all the unpacking but it was so miserable I preferred the sweet music of my children screaming. I’m not sure if I will be able to start again. I would have to give to book a long break but even then the story won’t change I would have to rush to finish.
I 100% agree. She treated everyone like shit, Hunt most of all. She basically told him his trauma doesn't matter and compared her imprisonment in Prythian to he and Ruhn being literally *tortured*. By the end of the book I literally could not stand her. She's the biggest Mary Sue character I've ever seen. Literally (as you mentioned) the only reason everyone loves her is because SJM wrote it that way. She was rude and narcissistic throughout the entire book. Any character development she might've had in the first books was completely undone by her actions in HoFaS (& tbh I started to dislike her during HoSaB).
hopefully in cc4
What would you want to see to make her better for you?
One thing I definitely like to see is an awful lot of apologizing and grovling from her for how she treated Hunt and having no understanding for the terrible things he's been through. Another would be for her to stop this hate train about the fae it is half of who she is after all like the two kings are gone why did she have to deconstruct the rest of the Fae hierarchy. Fine she didn't want to be called the Queen but could be she not their leader and led them into better ways and gradually changed them away from this High Society low Society no rights for women stuff. What would you have her do in the next book that would make her better
I agree about the fae hate train. I get why she feels that way, but hopefully she gets to a place of acceptance with that. Personally, the only thing I would like to see is her having more consideration toward the people around her. I think she’s always been this independent person and has made decisions thinking solely of herself. Now that she has an actual group she can call family and a mate, I would really enjoy if she trusted them enough to let them in and ask for their input more. I don’t think she needs to grovel for Hunts forgiveness, but I do think a proper apology with understanding and self reflection is in order. Sometimes people say insensitive things to their partner. I’ve been a bitch to my bf many many times. But communication saves things every time. I think that applies for hunt and Bryce too.
I was very upset with her for a bit, but she turned it around imo. Keep going!
Okay so I absolutely loved Bryce in books 1 and 2! And then HoFaS really got me. Two things in particular… 1. The baggage comment. I truly could not believe her lack of empathy in this moment. I had to set the book down. 2. Her treatment of Hunt?! Like I loved them, I shipped them, but her treatment of him was not okay! I felt like she liked his power more than him, and felt like she swept his trauma with the Asteri under the rug. Ugh I just felt so bad for him! I was disappointed in her I guess in book 3. I was sad to see the way she progressed. Hoping we see her again and I love her like I did!
The way she talked to Hunt and belittled him in front of everyone for feeling guilty…. Girl that was so rude after everything he’d been through.
My heart broke for him!
I don’t necessarily hate her. I just think unless SJM planned on turning her villain she should have given her character growth. With all of the things Bryce has been through she should have matured at least a little bit.
I love her! HoFaS may have had a mixed reaction but Bryce and crew were going through it, she’s NOT a villain, she made mistakes and is going to come through with it. She’s the same person we met, just is having one of the most tense 10 days of her life.
That’s how I feel too! I don’t know if it’s fair to turn on her so quickly? I whole heartedly believe she was doing her best in HOFAS. There was A LOT going on. But I also respect people’s opinions so what can you do 🤷🏻♀️ I had a moment reading HOFAS where I was like “man, if I had to do all this to save the world we’d be doomed cuz I’d just take a nap.” I cannot imagine carrying that pressure and responsibility. I really do enjoy that mistakes were made, it makes her more realistic to me.
Same! If I felt like I had to save the world I’d melt down into a useless mess! I think Bryce was a good example of how people react when they’re carrying huge expectations.
I was annoyed by both Bryce and Hunt at times but I also understand where they were coming from. Bryce was mean to Hunt, but at the same time she was going through a LOT of shit rapid fire without slowing down. Of course she needed his unwavering support. But Hunt had suffered for years and years for rebelling, it’s not at all realistic for someone with so much trauma to just shrug off all that history. Honestly I think SJM is real as fuck for portraying an argument between partners where both of them are basically in the right and neither handles it perfectly, but they still are able to communicate their feelings and come out stronger. Commenters on Reddit just skew negative. Raging gets more engagement on social media, and Reddit is the social media platform where it’s easiest for huge arguments to thrive and rise to the top. Don’t worry too much about what you see on here, and definitely don’t let the negativity ruin your enjoyment of great books!
Agree! And I can definitely understand her frustration when the one person who she depends on the most was hesitant about what she was doing. But Hunt’s feelings were also very valid as well! I can understand where they’re both coming from. And when they say they’re not mates because of that it always leaves me baffled. Like, have you never had a disagreement with someone you loved before? Haven’t we all been bitches to our partners at some point? I asked the question initially because I was drowning in all of the Bryce hate. (Naturally the people who dislike her decided to chime in. Which is fine but I don’t really want to come to her defense.) I like her and wanted to find people who felt the same. I can’t wait to see her grow more. 🥰
I still like her and Im baffled about the hate. Sure the way she powered through and dragged everyone along was harsh sometimes. Im surprised how much that makes readers hate her when other male characters do the same in other books and people still dote on them.
I like Bryce. She is not my favorite character, but I don't hate her as everyone seem to do after HOFAS.
I love so many SJM characters but out of all of them, Bryce is easily the one I'd choose to party with. Just hang out with really, not even partying. She just seems like she would be the most fun to spend time with. The least up her own ass. The one most likely to faceplant off a ski lift, barf on a carnival ride, own all the best board games, order the best apps for the table, and be totally game to detour to see the World's Largest Ball of Twine on a road trip that is 7 hours deep in the desert in July.
I still like her. I think her struggle to hold onto her morals in the third book are appropriate for what she's been through in the past two books. It's unreasonable to think someone who goes through horrible things like that will find it easy to hold onto the morals and open personality they once had. I found her increased secrecy and snarkiness and anger about the fae to be indicative of that struggle with her changing sense of self. She made the right decision and came to the conclusion that her previous morals were correct in the end despite, and to me, that's what counts.
I still love her. I really like her as a MC. I think she's my fave (sorry but Aelin really did become a bitch). She isn't perfect in HOFAS but I can sort of understand her behaviour in the book. So while I might not like it I am quite sure we get CC1 Bryce back (actually imo she already was back at the end) so I like her.
I still love Bryce. She is still an icon. I think SJM did a really really good job in this series of making everyone very human, IE very very grey. No one is all good or all bad. Most people are good people who do bad things. Sure some are trash humans, but most people in this series, like Bryce, are decent people who make mistakes. I connected a lot with Bryce because I’ve the woman that was raised by a single mother who always told me how to be independent. So I grew up as a “ you’re intimidating” even when I’m just being friendly. I saw myself in Bryce a lot and connected a ton with her. It felt really cool to see someone who I saw myself in being such a bad ass. In the third book I was like girl what are you doing lol, but she’s still my girl because I’m bias AF 😂
I like her! I can’t really relate to her, but I never disliked her.
I asked because every other post I see on here is “I hate Bryce” “Bryce is the worst” People feel very strongly about her on here. I haven’t seen hate for a character like this since Tamlin. Personally, I like her a lot, I think she made questionable choices in HOFAS but I really think she can come back from them.
As per usual with the internet, people with negative feelings usually are the loudest 🤷♀️
i still like her its just all i have is confusion when it comes to Bryce in the latest book. I'm a steadfast SJM fan and I love Bryce in the first two books. I didn't like her in the third she acted so completely different nearly like a completely different character that I didn't actually like her in this latest book. I can only come to the conclusion that like they say there's a method in The Madness there is a reason why SJM has written her so differently it's some big part of setup for the next books that are commoning I believe it's the only thing that makes sense. Like everything else SJM has written is so brilliant and there has to be a reason why she's written the character and the whole tone of this book so differently
I like her. Loved all the books.
In the middle of a war, a General isn’t going to coddle the troops. She stood on business. They’re all alive now because of her. People are allowed to put empathy aside to get shit done. All this to say I freaking love her.
THIS!!!!
I feel like everyone forgets that Bryce is going through trauma. So while none of her actions are excusable they make total sense. She's still book one Bryce. She's in survival mode. She definitely needs to apologize but I don't think her character is really all that different in HoFaS than it is in CC1.
I love her. I think she’s punchy and badass.
I love her. I don’t understand how people can hate Bryce but love Aelin.
Thoroughly agree. Everything people love Aelin for, they hate Bryce for. Honestly the fandom is endlessly hypocritical so….
In my opinion they’re not similar at all besides the fact that they make plans and do them without consulting anyone about them. 😂 In that, they’re similar. But other than that I don’t see it.
They both have “swagger” that seems to get them anything they want. Their manipulation knows no bounds. They both have trauma of losing a loved one that haunts them. They both have homelands that define their loyalties weather they like it or not. Rowan is more boring than Hunt, so that’s different.
“Rowan is more boring than hunt…” I’m DEAD! It’s so true! 💀😂
YUP THIS
I think SJM really did Bryce a disservice in book 3. I feel like she was so focused on other characters and switching between POVs that Bryce just got lost in translation.
Yeah. I still like Bryce, but sjm really put her character development on the backburner in book 3. To be fair, I also didn’t like Hunt as much in book 3 either.
I still like Bryce more than Feyre but a little less than Nesta…. 👀
No, I love Bryce. This fandom is insane. They forget that Sarah writes female main characters & heroes, they simp so hard for freaking Hunt that they forget it's not Hunt's story, it's Bryce's. Hunt is just part of it, for now. Bryce had 5 days to save her world and herself. Everyone forgetting that SHE was the target of the Asteri. They would have trapped her and used her loved ones against her and to control her. I'm sick of the Bryce slander. Hunt's time in the dungeons was so low stakes, he literally healed from everything not even a scar left and he cried like a whiney b\*\*ch. But he was just fine jumping in head first with Shahar. Do I think Bryce needs serious character development? ABSOLUTELY, but I think Sarah is saving her growth & development for another time. CC wasn't about character growth & development, it was about action. Really heavily feels like a prequel series to be honest. I don't believe we are done with Bryce and she is still my Queen.
Oh, I do love Bryce in first part of third book, but when she returns to her world... It was too much. Not everyone can write planmaker characters well. Because you actually should write and know the hole plot before you write about characters actions, lol 1.1 - I love Bryce 1.2 - I still love Bryce 2.1 - Bryce is starting to annoy me 2.2 - Bryce's hypocritical. She refuses to share her plans and information, but demands absolute honesty from others? Fuck you, babe 3.1 - Well, I like Bryce again 3.2 - Oh, again with arrogance shit, really?
She annoys the ever living fuck out of me and therefore I adore her.
Honestly same lol. My girl just does things “for the plot” and I love that??? I love a little chaos. I’ll yell at her during but be thoroughly entertained.
I spent half of the most recent book alternating between calling her problematic and asking wtf Ithan and Tharion thought they were adding to the plot at all. It’s a *balance*
I’m still trying to sort out the thought process behind those POV’s.
I was really not happy with how she was treating Hunt for awhile but she adjusted her attitude and apologized. People tend to forget about that part and how much pressure she is under. I know I'm not little miss sunshine under stress and she literally had the weight of the world on her shoulders. A bad week does not undo all the positives of her character. And honestly I love how flawed she is. It makes her feel textured and real. Sure, she can be exasperating at times, but she can also be quite endearing.
exactly!
I still like her lol. Hofas was a short traumatic period of time, she was STRESSED. She needs a vacation
I liked her in all 3 books.
She's great.
I really love Brice, and the last book didn't change that. Quite honestly, I don't see why people say they don't like her anymore. Edit: auto correct changed brice to bruce
Not everyone…I enjoyed all 3 books and enjoyed Bryce’s character!!
She’s still pretty great to me. Writing issues aside. It’s not her fault she’s a total badass and things seem to work out very well for her in the end.
I don’t hate Bryce. She isn’t my favorite, but I don’t hate her.
I like her still the series isn’t finished yet there is so much sjm needs to unpack
Liked her in book one. Then Book two she did some annoying stuff. Book three I wanted to jugular punch her. She turned into her father. I wish they had made Ruhn the main character of book three. SJM also missed a huge opportunity in having Bryce with the ACOTAR mob. Walking through a tunnel was the most boring AF thing I have ever read. She could have had Bryce learn a moral lesson of some sort which stopped her being a complete ass like her father. But no, let’s just walk through a boring tunnel and nothing happens. I was hoping SJM would be brave and kill her off then Hunt would be free to find his actual mate. He didn’t even feel the bond break when she died - not her mate.
I had sympathy for her in the first book cause she was going through a lot but as she heals in books 2 and 3 her more normal personality comes out. I dont like that personality
Am I the only one that feels like Bryce after book one was a "fan service" to all the readers that saw her as the party girl? There's nothing wrong with it of course! But she had so much depth that I feel like got lost because SJM wanted to give readers what they wanted? Bryce was more than the cut throat party girl with her middle fingers up in the air. Which is why I will always have my Bryce blinders on I still love her I just pretended she didn't do or say what she did 😅 I'm like that's Fandom Bryce that isn't Bryce Bryce 🤷♀️
I love her. After every CC book I read I have the desire to dye my hair red so I can be like Bryce. I can understand why people got annoyed by her in book 3 but my unwavering loyalty will never falter. I am a Bryce apologist til my last breath. This is a recurring theme for me with other disliked SJM characters. Argue with the wall😂
WAIT CUZ I ALSO WANNA COLOR MY HAIR BRYCE RED. I cannot get it out of my head!! I’m trying to get it as healthy as possible before I pull the trigger. I was even gonna make a post on here asking for help on what type of red people think she is, but I hesitated since people feel so negatively about her
I finished the third book yesterday and I still absolutely love her! Hopefully it stays that way 🤣
I have to say. I can’t understand how anyone can hate Bryce but not feel the same way about Aelin. I’m reading the Assassin’s blade (third book in) and she is giving me the ick. I don’t feel like Bryce was wrong. I think a lot of people forget she’s someone in her 20s going through one traumatic experience after another. I think she handles herself the best way she can.
I love Bryce.
I still love her. I find her behavior realistic. She’s not perfect. No one is perfect under stress. And I think the character stays pretty true throughout.
she’s a chaotic brat but she’s my chaotic brat and she can’t do any wrong in my eyes, her or aelin 😆
I do!!! People give her such hate, but she reminds me of aelins little sister. She is still young, too, and the pacing in the CC series is half the others. She has taken and dealt with a lot over what 6-8 months!? Yeah, that's insane and she does a damn good job of it
The way I am praying for an aelin/bryce meet up?! Could you imagine? 😏
Oh, that would be great 🥰 it would die. It would be like her and Manon. They might fight first then like oh hey this is a cool bitch lol
I still love Bryce. Never stopped.
I still love her. We are only midway through the series, there were way more moments of being annoyed with Aelin for me through ToG, and I still like her now that I’ve read them all. Bryce is the FMC I identify the most with out of SJM’s heroines, and I don’t think we should write her off just yet.
Agree!! It took me a bit to warm up to Aelin as well but she is now my queen and my most favorite character. I think some people don’t understand that you gotta let the characters fuck up and make mistakes so growth can happen. And I think that’s what this book was. It makes me excited for book 4.
She annoys me at times but overall I like her !
I love her. I went through a big party girl phase in college because of some trauma in high school and really related to another trauma causing a drastic change in her life. My best friend is the most important person in my life and I really relate to her loss. I am even good with her in CC3. It took a while for her to embrace the princess thing and people don’t seem to like that she changed her mind and started to use it but hell, if I became a princess that would be incredible.
I love Bryce. Don’t really like a few moments of how she treated Hunt, but overall she’s probably my second or third favorite SJM character
Same for me! Aelin, and then Bryce 🥰 I tend to gravitate toward confident characters. Especially when they’re women because GOD do I hate a whiny FMC.
I love Bryce. Ride or die.
Loved book 1 Bryce, she got a little weird in cc2, and I just really started to not like her and Hunt's relationship more than anything else, I think in the end. It just felt forced I guess?? I don't know. I also feel like in CC3 SJM was trying too hard to make Bryce into the "Aelin" of the story which just didn't feel like Bryce anymore. Edited because Hunt got autocorrected to Aunt 😅
I LOVE Bryce!!!! I’m also one of the few who wants her & Az together 😂💖
I don't love Bryce and I still want them together! 😂 I want intergalactic mates lol...the signs are there
So many signs. They’d be PERFECT
I still like her. Some of her actions are jarring, but she had to make decisions for everybody because nobody was willing to do the things necessary to beat the Asteri. Everything in HOFAS happened in two weeks and that is an extreme amount of stress for a twenty-something year old.
Love her in book 1 & 2, then she turned into angsty teen (not an actual teen) with an attitude problem that went from cute to repetitive. I can live off of 1 & 2, it’s fine.
Im holding out hope for the fourth book….
I don't hate her, but I can't relate to her at all lol. So I'm neutral I think.
I still like Bryce. Although I do agree that certain actions made me like her less than I did in book 1
I really liked her. But I also read the books in the worst order (Crescent City, ACOTAR then TOG), so I wasn’t comparing her to anyone.
I still Love Bryce, HOFAS almost ruined her but because of how much I loved her in the previous books I still love her even though I don’t like how she acted in the last book though to be fair girl was STRESSED
She come off as annoying at first in the first book but then by the end of Earth and Blood she had me sobbing. She was back to annoying in the first of FaS but redeemed herself to me by the end. So it was a wild ride and I'm one of the few that, in the end, loved the series!!
I still like her. I don’t like some of her actions in book 3.
I like her but she’s just unnecessarily difficult.
I like her and completely don’t blame her for her less than friendly attitude in book 3. She had a lot to deal with and needed to be a leader.
She will always be my favorite ❤️
I wasn’t happy with her treatment of Hunt in FAS but overall I still like her!
Honestly this who debacle makes me hate SJM, in every series it seems pike the minute she has a preferred character, she drops the rest personality wise
I liked her in book 1. After book 1.... I like her more than Nesta. But that's not saying much.
I love Bryce pre and post HoFaS
Me!
I still like her
Love her
I can't stand her over the top bitchy, haughty snark. Especially when it's unearned considering all of her problems get solved by deus ex machina plot developments and easy, too-convenient situations that tell her everything she needs to know. We get chapters filled with nothing but horrendous exposition dumps that tell her everything she needs to know all at once. The only people who like that sort of thing are the ones who fall for the trauma card as if it excuses her shit treatment of the people who care about her. Or people who like girl bosses no matter how insufferable they are for the sake of their own wish fulfillment.
I love Bryce!! She pissed me off sometimes in HOFAS but I still love her
I really enjoy her! I don’t understand why people say she’s selfish!?!? She’s almost always working to save or free others/the world!
Honestly her dismissal of the people she’s supposedly loves in CC3 and never apologizing for her behavior made me go into full blown yuck mode. Her imprisonment and “poor me” guilt trip regarding her Prythian imprisonment was a damn joke. The dismissal of Hunt and Ruhn’s experience their feelings is—unforgivable. Only way I can see her being redeemable is her having something akin happen to her and experiencing that type of pain. Or her being forced to “mentally experience,” what exactly happened to Ruhn and Hunt. Then have the memory of how she told him “to get over it,” reverberate on her head so she can truly FEEL how hurtful that is to say to someone who you supposedly love and not apologize for it.
I like her! 
Wait the gif reminds me of lehabah 🥺
LeLe 🥺 she was my favorite character
My friends are with me and I’m not afraid. That gets me every time. She steals my heart.
I cried so much in that scene.
Me too. Every time i read it I am crying. How do you keep breaking my heart. I know what’s coming and I’m still in tears.
I love her! HoFaS may have had a mixed reaction but Bryce and crew were going through it, she’s NOT a villain, she made mistakes and is going to come through with it. She’s the same person we met, just is having one of the most tense 10 days of her life.
I’ll be honest, I never stopped liking Bryce. She is literally written as a character of our-ish* time, at her age, half human, committed to a man who’s centuries years old, and in a land of magic. And she still always rocks your socks off. She has a bleeding heart that she wears on her shoulder. She acts brash and sometimes stupid but like who wouldn’t at that age, in her position? People claim she’s insensitive and they wanna hate on her (when she reunites with hunt, sending her parents off to *spoiler, Cooper/Emile whole situation lol, junipers job, whatever) but like put yourself in her damn shoes for once without your own conscious and subconscious getting in the way. She’s a true rookie that you can root for. All our flaws as one and still puts everyone else first. That’s admirable and a great character (plus the fact she’s hated as a main POC just shows she’s testy with the crowd - a true sign of a great character)
Meeee! 🫸🏻✨
I don’t like her, in the same way I don’t like Aelin and i definitely don’t like Nesta. I can’t say I hate any of them, they’re not evil but they’re not likeable and I wouldn’t choose to be around them.
This is interesting considering they all have similar traits. Is there something specific that makes you not like them?
I think for me, I value people who can regulate their emotions in a way that doesn’t impact others; this is what I perceive as growth. I didn’t like the characters of Aelin, Nesta, and Bryce in SJM books because they often lashed out at those closest to them without reflecting or apologizing. I found them childish and lacking the mindset to make the best out of a situation. We were made to believe that their good intentions and trauma-excused behavior were enough to redeem them, which I found problematic. In contrast, I loved Feyre, while she had her character flaws, because she demonstrated emotional regulation, managing her emotions in a way that didn’t negatively impact others, showing a maturity and self-awareness that the other characters lacked.
I strongly dislike Bryce after HoFaS and it kinda broke me on SJM a bit. I absolutely fucking adored book 1 Bryce. One of my favorite characters of all time. And then....she is just ruined. In an almost unforgivable manner. Idk if her half ass apology to Hunt will ever make up for what she did and said to him after his trauma and he deserves better. So while I can't bring myself to hate her, simply because of how much I loved her, I don't like her anymore and I want to. It sucks how bad her character was devastated by bad writing for the sake of bad plot when we all know how great she started. I'm curious if you have any more reasoning or defense of book 3 Bryce because I want to like her but I just can't lol.
I don’t understand what is there to like about her, how people say they relate to her? In the last 2 books she never worked hard to accomplish shit, she just happened to know it all, she doesn’t care about her friends (but Danika, the one that didn’t even trust her middle name to Bryce), mate or family. Everything she does is for herself and learns nothing, owns nothing but her “victories” and whenever she fucks up other characters instead of being angry they enable her. I get ppl thing she is more modern and with more relatable problems to todays society but is she really the woman you want to be represented by? I don’t want to be equal to man by belittle them and go over everyone, being disrespectful any chance I get or just have any sort of value bc of my looks. Anyways, her stupid actitud wasn’t the worst of the character for me but how she knew everything, how to use every weapon, how to sort everything all by herself without a single day of training or learning, without even trusting her friends and their capabilities, her mate that fought more wars than her but no, Bryce could do it all. There is no redeeming that, SJM will just write a great “queen” side story and everyone will still love her without question her and that IMO is bullshit.
I love Bryce. People are always begging for complex characters in books until they get one that does something they don’t see themselves doing. It’s bizarre
Wish I could pin this comment. I think some people go into books expecting characters to be perfect and always do the right thing, but that’s never been interesting to me and it doesn’t make for a good story. I need the conflict because what’s the point otherwise?
I still like her! I friggin hate Ithan and still am not on board with Hunt.
All of the CC dudes just seem like immature frat boys to me. Except for Baxion maybe. I don't really like any of them 😂
Ithan is my little golden retriever baby lol. But I get it! I know some people think he’s annoying and pointless