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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

798 reviews

erinofthehills's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It honestly took me a little bit to get into this one. For the first 50 pages or so I found the writing style to be overly descriptive in a way that didn't add to the story. However, once the story got going, I didn't mind the writing style as much.

The plot was easy to follow and compelling with a satisfying number of twisted and turns. I definitely struggle with reading the more cruel and sadistic characters but that might just be a preference. Also, if you're not into the Alpha Male trope you might not enjoy the romance as much (it's not my favourite).

I'll still be reading the rest of the series though! Everyone tells me it gets better from here.

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milkteanao's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous funny hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"My bowels turned watery" but fuck I'm interested in this series. Wattpad but 10 steps higher like woah

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jorose's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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thehoziest's review against another edition

2.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’ve been reading this book on and off since April last year. I never disliked it enough to want to DNR it but I also never liked it enough to prioritise it. It’s not great. It’s enjoyable enough, but doesn’t have the heart of something like twilight, which I find *charmingly* not great - it’s just not great.

It’s very badly written. Her way with words is very lacking and the plot is incredibly stupid and poorly justified. The main character is insufferable, the stupidest character in any story I’ve ever read - just reliably has the stupidest possible responses and reactions to literally every situation, and the climax of the book is that she takes three months to solve the most basic, obvious riddle I’ve ever read. I solved it in two minutes. The first 50% of the book is like she just looked at all the dumbest parts of Beauty and the Beast and thought, what if it was even worse? The second half has some action and an actual plot so it’s a little better, but still quite bad.

I know there are cultural appropriation and representation issues about Ireland in this series and they don’t come up much in this first one, (making a country named after, and inspired by, Ireland and then making it the coloniser was a pretty wild choice though) but although they aren’t the most egregious issues in the world, basically the book isn’t good enough to make you want to excuse even that much.

I wouldn’t recommend. I think these are only popular because too many women are starved for romance in their real lives. If you have any amount of good sex in your life, I don’t think this has anything for you. There’s also actually barely any sex depicted in it, and when there is a sex scene, she shrinks away from describing it with the most uncomfortably cowardly innuendo-filled nonsense. (If you can’t bring yourself to be normal about sex, maybe just don’t write a book about it?)

I still might read more of them though. It has a sort of soap-opera / chewing gum for your brain vibe where it’s shallow and explicitly not good but it’s sort of pleasant to consume it?

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booksthoughtsandtea's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I was impressed by the pacing and overall story. I don't understand why some people are so opposed to this book.

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sgollogly's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first book of one of y favorite series. The second weakest in the series in terms of plot and character development, but it sets the stage and the world building really picks up in the second half. If you're a fan of fae and of retellings, I think ACOTAR is a series for you.

Liked
-Feyre's courage
-Depiction of ruthlessness in humans and faeries
-description of trauma and grief
-the characters we meet

Disliked
-the uselessness of Feyre's family
-Tamlin's temper tantrums
-Feyre's inability to figure out the world's easiest riddle
-the choppy pace of the book (way too slow to way too fast)

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celestihel's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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leordanete's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wouldn't say this was the most amazing book I've read, but I don't think that's the point. It was fun and it ended in enough of a cliffhanger for me to want to read the second one! Moreover, I definitely recommend reading this with a buddy or in a book club. I read it with my long-distance best friend and it made the process hilarious and gave us something fun to do! To me, this book (especially the first half) read as a Beauty and the Beast retelling. Moreover, I think there were random--and too many-- similarities between the faeries in this book and vampires in other pop culture. That being said, my favorite depiction of the faeries were the creepy, scary ones...I enjoyed the faerie diversity! I just wish they were more unique than paranormal love interests that we've already experienced elsewhere.

Also, why is the main character's name Feyre if she's human and the human race (including her family) hate fairies? Asking the real questions...

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meikana's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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olivialuvsbooks22's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was really good. The only reason I didn't rate it higher was because the books that followed this had character building that was incomparable to this book.

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