(Spoilers for ACOTAR) First book of ACOTAR revived my love for fantasy, the followup kneecapped it. What should I read instead?

I picked up ACOTAR on a whim and I loved the first book - finding the fairytale-style fantasy of it utterly enthralling. It awoke something in me, that amazement and love for fantasy I had as a child... and yet then the second book gave me a bad feeling about how the characters were written. I ended up actually spoiling myself, and the way the characters are turning out dismayed me to say the least. Rhysand is suddenly not morally grey but some perfect prince? Tamlin's turned into a controlling abuser? Feyre actually infiltrates and wrecks the Spring Court without any real guilt about it? Tamlin wanders the destroyed halls of his court in beast form, alone and broken, and Rhysand shows up to torment him?! It's like... I don't wanna read any further now...

So... If I say

• I'd have loved for Rhysand to remain a dangerous and possibly tempting ally, but still very much a villainesque figure whom you never quite know where he stands and who keeps pulling shit.

• I'd have adored Feyre to have enough self-insight to not laugh in her friends' face when they tell her to not mock a broken man (and just generally been a little less... self-righteous, tbh), and that she'd instead have returned to Tamlin, stronger and able to set boundaries, in the end.

• Tamlin's control issues weren't a problem for me - trauma does exist - but the way he ends up so broken and destroyed and mocked by the people he did help - including resurrecting one - just gave me a bad taste in my mouth.

With these issues on my plate, what should I be looking into instead? Like the world setup I adored, but the sudden shift in characters between book 1 and 2 just made me unhappy and I'd rather read something else for a while now.