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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

629 reviews

erinreading's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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lomesia's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dayanitha's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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

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gmcgowan10's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I honestly wasn’t expecting to like this book in a serious way, more like i would enjoy how ridiculous it was. it is ridiculous at times, but little did i know i would fall in love with the main characters. the best way i’m able to explain ACOTAR is as a ramped up version of Beauty and the Beast, just more violent and more sexy and about faeries :)

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kittykels's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

This is my second read-through, so it's a different experience now that I know the series of events.

I don't love the characters as much as I did the first time.

The first time I read this book, I found the love story between Feyre and Tamlin to be compelling. When she said she loved him, I loved him too. This time, I'm not as compelled to believe she loves him. They haven't really gone through anything to solidify those kinds of feelings for each other. He bought her paints and spent time with her. They talked a bit, but she also talked with Lucien. I mean, I guess I can believe Tamlin loving her. He knew he was looking for a Fae-hating human to fall in love with him, but I don't think he expected Feyre to be as compassionate and understanding of the Fae and their "blight" as she was. However, I also didn' t find that compassion to be genuine and compelling. There wasn't enough time or experience between her killing Andreas and her holding the hand of the dying Fae to justify her complete change of heart. That should have been the beginning of her change. There should have still been some fear and hesitation at that point. Finally, I think Amaranthe falls flat at the end. We know she hates humans and it all stems from the love she had for her sister and maybe even Tamlin, but I feel like her riddle was dumb her behavior was just... a weird choice. I think she needed more character insight or development so we could have fully understood what the heck she was doing. Being told she was angry wasn't enough.

I think the author spends too much time trying to write pretty descriptions of the wrong things, and not enough time writing solid growth of characters and/or plot. She's definitely not bad at character development, at least not in her later books, but sometimes I feel like she cares too much about imagery and not enough about substance.

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peytonhhill's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The first book I've read in this genre, where to begin! In general, I liked this book. I thought the concept was interesting (feels like the hunger games meets Cinderella in the beginning, morphs into beauty and the beast meets twilight, then morphs into something else entirely). I thought the characters were mostly interesting and well thought out, but I'm not 100% sold on the main character. I honestly really liked the first half of the book. Lots of intrigue and steam and fascinating faerie magic things. The second half took a dark turn that I don't think the first half prepared the characters or the reader for...still a relatively satisfying ending. But a lot of violence! I am curious to read more of the series but hope there will be more world building and mystery and romance and less gore. We shall see!

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