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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

524 reviews

hayhaywils's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad medium-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

Bare with it because it is a slow burn but the pay off is really good. A really strong mix of characters but found the pace a little inconsistent. Felt the last part (most interesting was compressed into the last third of the book)

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shinyfox's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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chaoticbiranger's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

*Just a review of the first book, not the whole series* A very easy read, and honestly feels like The Twilight Saga of my 30s in the sense that it's a captivating series but is definitely more junkfood. It's not really deep or thought provoking, I was never deeply invested in Feyre herself. I was far more invested in everything else around her. As a first person POV, Feyre is honestly insufferable for the first 100 pages, and she's fairly annoying as the sole POV for the remainder of the book but it does gradually improve. There's entirely too much use of the words "muscle", "sensuous", "purr", "growl", and "roar" however it sort of plays into the junk food. It also has some classic familiar tropes. Parentified daughter that's not like other girls, but actually has a higher grand purpose as a Chosen One, and important men in another land are enamored by her spunk; don't forget the archery and hunting skills.

If you're looking for spice, this is black pepper. I really thought by the way everyone raved on Tiktok calling it "faerie p**n" that it would be a bit more hot under the collar, more explicit, but there's honestly less than three scenes that get exciting.

What this book did well was actually having reasonable pacing with the love story, it wasn't instant even though it was VERY predictable.

What this book could do better, more creative world building. Prythian is supposed to be an entirely different land, a different world than our own. But they have typhus and say things like "go to Hell". So apparently this place has a Hell? Capitalized? It took me out of it since they made it a point to briefly explain the religious faerie origin story.

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zw_r1's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

It seems with all of SJMs books they start slow but pick up in the third part of the book.

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gvyv's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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skeletor23's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Book really drags in the beginning to give too much world exposition before we even have the chance to care, surrounds main character by a family of near irredeemable characters that makes reader question why it spends so much time on them in the beginning, and repeats formulaic sequence of main character outright being stupid and putting self into harms way by doing the opposite of advice given, having to be rescued time and time again in drawn out false climaxes. That being said, the book redeems itself in the 3rd quarter, building on characters, creative action sequences, romance, and straight up gore and tragedy into resolution to make us feel something for an initially dull and annoyingly dumb main character.

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shaykay's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

Honestly, I get the hype of these books. This one was really addictive, however, it is a slow start because there's just so much being thrown out there, so much world-building, and it's just setting up so much. Granted this was like my second attempt at reading this series and I went down the audiobook route and not just an audiobook it was a dramatized version, and it was just so good. Definitely get the dramatized version if there's ever an option. Anyway, if I had to describe this book it's definitely Beauty and the Beast inspired meets Hunger Games. I'm not sure Hunger Games is the best route but I'm thinking the game portion where it's life and death and competing in trials because that's what Feyre is eventually forced to go through. I really loved this one and it was so hard to put down.

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