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Book club questions · Chapters 1–5

A Court of Wings and Ruin book club questions

For the first 5 chapters, the way a good group chat asks them: a quick take-a-side question first, then one to chew on. This page stops at chapter 5, so nothing here spoils what comes after.

by Sarah J. Maas2017 · 82 chapters · 736 pages · Bloomsbury
Cover of A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

Chapter 1

  1. Ianthe defending her betrayal to the narrator's face: gutsy or just clueless?
  2. Which lands harder, Rhysand turning over corpses looking for Cassian or the narrator playing patient at Tamlin's manor while Hybern is due tomorrow?
  3. Why does the narrator keep up the fragile recovering act with Tamlin instead of leaving the moment she's able?

Chapter 2

  1. Baiting Jurian at lunch to win Tamlin's trust: clever move or needless risk?
  2. The narrator finally reaches Rhysand and learns Cassian, Azriel and her sisters are alive, so why is she so careful about a contact she so clearly needs?
  3. She secretly blocks Dagdan and Brannagh from Tamlin's and Lucien's minds while plotting against Tamlin, so who is she actually protecting there?

Chapter 3

  1. Lucien hiding the evidence that her abduction story didn't add up: loyalty or cowardice?
  2. Alis sees straight through Feyre's act and asks only that her nephews be spared, why does that land harder than anything Dagdan and Brannagh do?
  3. Lucien tells Feyre what Ianthe did to him at Calanmai, so what changes between them once he's said it out loud?

Chapter 4

  1. Stealing Ianthe's sunrise moment in front of the whole crowd: satisfying or petty?
  2. Feyre dances with Tamlin while dreading Hybern wrecking the land's peace, so how much of her tenderness in that dance is act and how much is real?
  3. Why does Feyre want the crowd worshipping her instead of Ianthe, beyond the pleasure of humiliating a priestess?

Chapter 5

  1. Using Lucien's genuine comfort as bait for Tamlin's jealousy: fair game or a step too far?
  2. Tamlin walking in with his claws half out, and the narrator's private glee at it, which of those two reactions is more unsettling?
  3. The trauma she leans on in that scene is real, so where's the line between surviving it and weaponizing it?

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