My older brother is an artist, and I asked him to analyze the cover drawing. I think yall are going to like this:
The spider is hanging or suspended from above by the thread, like it's trapped. The spider's head has petal-like pattern, like roses, and its legs have thorns. The spider looks like it's made - its body is covered by thread too. The eight-pointed star symbolizes infinity, eternity, regeneration and connection between heaven and earth, and catches the eye of anyone looking at the drawing because of the position, the sharp form and the light color amidst the black. The spider has two eyes and also three eyes on its head - the third eye (divine perception, transcending ordinary vision, seeing beyond) The spider is unraveling the thread from the source (spool) like it's deciding its own fate. It looks like a black widow spider - the female black widow spider is known for killing her male partner after mating.
The symbolism of the spider: the weaving of destiny, feminine power and independence, patience and strategic intelligence, subconscious, secrets and hidden knowledge, sensitivity, perceptual awareness, observer, seeing what others don't notice, hidden behind shadows, resilience, renewal, rebirth.
ELAIN'S POV IS COMING
SHE IS THE SPIDER LET'S FUCKING GOOOO
I think at least one of the "hard-to-hear truths" (from the French) and "revealed truths" (from the English) is that the cauldron is corrupted.
I think it's going to shake up everyone's idea of their bonds/relationships, and people don't like to have their fundamental beliefs challenged.
The corrupted cauldron is absolutely gonna be one of the revealed truths. I bet Az will be furious that Rhys dismissed him questioning the cauldron when he was RIGHT.
“What if the cauldron was wrong?”
Surprise, the cauldron is wrong.
"Bonds will be tested"
Acotar coloring book - Covers
While looking at the coloring book I noticed something. These are papa Archeron's ships. Feyre Elain and Nesta. But look at the symbols.
Feyre = moon and stars
Nesta = sun
Elain = Eight pointed star
What's important is...those symbols are in the covers.
Acosf:
Acofm:
Is it just a coincidence? Or is there more?
Especially bc I theorized that archerons might come from the line of the female fae warrior who trapped koschei...and this coloring book page is papa archeron coming back from a bargain he made with koschei in order to release Vassa? Is it connected somehow? 👀👀👀
People seem to forget Elain's gift for Azriel, only focusing on his gift for Elain.
She gifted him earplugs that can block ANY sound.
Then he heard a mysterious singing following him that night when he left Gwyneth training there, and his shadows danced around Gwyneth's mouth breath like they got hypnotized by a silent song.
Antis have such a study about Elain's rose necklace but choose to ignore the earplugs she gave Azriel and its relation with Gwyneth's singing and glowing powers.
These dumbasses think Sarah wrote romantic scenes with two female characters for Azriel in that bonus. He isn't a Casanova.
They think the "song" he heard when leaving the training site and the "spark" he felt when leaving the library was something romantic. The forget the mating bond is actually a "pull", strong protection instinct and sexual attraction, like Feysand and Nessian showed to us. Azriel only shows strong protection instinct and sexual attraction for Elain, he was the one to find out what was wrong with Elain, one time his shadows were about to attack Nesta because of Elain, the iconic Hybern war rescue, giving her his Truth-Teller, not wanting to put Elain in risk of danger, worried about her in front of Cassian, and suffering a lot more than Lucien by not being with Elain.
And Elain is the only female character Azriel showed arousal for on page. Not even Mor.
Any theory about Azriel and Nesta's gym colleague being mates is a CRACK THEORY.
ARCHERON - Ancient Greek & Hebrew Arche/Archê/Arch: beginning, origin, source; rule/authority, first principle, principal/chief/highest, dominion; "to rule," "to govern," "to begin," -ron: joyful song, singing "Joyful Singing of the Ruler" "Song of the Ruler/Authority" "Song of the Source/Beginning" "The Highest Song"
ARCHESIAN Arches-ian (Like Parisian = of Paris) “of Arches” / “belonging to Arches” / “associated with the Arches” OR “belonging to/of the Ruler/Source”
Nice one, Sarah.
The audacity to say that Elain won't be relevant in the upcoming books and that her story won't be told when she has been important from the very beginning, considering the first book in the series was titled A Court of Thorns and ROSES and Feyre painted Elain's drawer with ROSES (and Az gifting her a ROSE necklace and having a place called ROSEhall), and her scent being the scent of the Night Court (Jasmine - a nocturnal flower that bats love)
She has been part of the story from the beginning, and she will finish it together with her sisters and her love interest.
Oh my God, that is absolutely awful but they should REALIZE THIS lol
Azriel training his """mate""", watching her overcome her trauma during ACOSF, and all the while thinking about ELAIN'S PUSSY and CUMMING for Elain every single night during his """mate's""" HEALING PROCESS!
HOW AWFUL LMAO
Gwynriel is the WORST crackship I've ever seen. What a CLOWN SHOW! Where did they get that from???
Wrong—it was so wrong. He didn’t care. He needed to know what the skin of her neck tasted like. What those perfect lips tasted like. Her breasts. Her sex. He needed her coming on his tongue—
How that beautiful face might appear as he entered her, what sounds she’d make.
Her arousal drifted up to him, and his eyes nearly rolled back in his head at the sweet scent. He’d beg on his knees for a chance to taste it.
While his """mate""" is being trained by him is WILD
Boy saw Gwynethy's skin and thinks Elain's skin is the softest and most attractive
saw Gwynethy's lips and thinks Elain's lips are the most perfect
heard Gwynethy's voice and thinks Elain's voice is the sexiest
scented Gwynethy and thinks Elain's scent is the sweetest of all
saw Gwynethy's face and thinks Elain has the most beautiful face
Well well well
I think the "mates" and the "romance" aren't in the room with Gwynriels
Today's game: find the Valkyries in the blurbs!
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Nothing? Now find phrases in the blurbs that point to a storyline involving Elain's mating bond plot causing a diplomatic chaos in Prythian, the Cauldron being corrupted and mating bonds being tested because of it, life being remade, freedom being reclaimed!