A Court of Thorns and Roses | Review

A Court of Thorns and Roses Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Also in this series: A Court of Mist and Fury , A ​Court of Silver Flames
by Sarah J. Maas
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses #1
on May 5, 2015
Genres: Action & Adventure, Adult, Adventure, Fantasy, Magic, Paranormal, Fairies, Romance, Shapeshifters, Supernatural, Retellings
Pages: 432
Source: Purchased
Format: eBook, Paperback
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Also by this author: House of Earth and Blood , A Court of Mist and Fury , A ​Court of Silver Flames , House of Earth and Blood
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ISBN: 1635575559

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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
At least, he’s not a beast all the time.
As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.
From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.

I don’t even know if there are the right words for this book and how much I love it.

This is, admittedly, a re-read for me. I decided to read this one again because I had suggested to both my sisterwives and expressed to them just how much I loved this series. And because of my latest Tea and a Chat post on re-reading and whether reviews change–I thought, “What the hell, let’s see if my review will change for this one!”

And that’s a big, fat negative. I still love this book with everything in me.

This is one of those books that I really can’t say too much about without giving away a huge chunk of the plot–but I’m going to try anyway.

For the first part we get to know Feyre and kind of what her living situation is like. She’s poor; brought down by a father and his poor investment choices. Feyre, her father, and her two sisters, rely on Feyre’s self-taught hunting skills to survive.

It’s those very same hunting skills that get Feyre in trouble. When out hunting one day she kills a fae in wolf’s clothing–really, she knew it was a faerie and killed it anyway. And it doesn’t take long for her sin to come back and bite her in her ass– she gets whisked away over the wall between the fae and human realm to pay for her debt of killing the wolf–she now has to spend the remainder of her days with the fae that she hates.

From here, things get–interesting. The reader can tell from the first that the fae are as adept at keeping secrets as Feyre is at wielding a bow and arrow. And it’s just as paramount as the fae’s secrets are what keep them alive.

Keep in mind that this is a loose Beauty and the Beast retelling. So with that, you will find some clear comparisons between the two. But don’t get too bogged down by your expectations of what that means–it doesn’t take long for the author to just turn that all on its head.

I felt like this may have been two different books. The first half-ish and the second. In this first, Feyre is learning how to navigate her new Fae world–in the second–well, I’ll just say that things take a dramatic turn that I never saw in my first reading. And it’s actually quite the setup for the rest of the series, in general.

This book has all the romantic fae elements that one can appreciate in a Holly Black or Julie Kagawa fae story–but, for all of that, I feel like it’s a bit more romantic. A bit more heartbreaking. And a bit more engrossing. And Feyre is one hell of a heroine. She makes me want to throttle her one chapter, and cry for her the next.

This is not a book–or series–to be missed.

 

 

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