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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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latsin's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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and_so_it_goes's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous dark 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

It was a standard modern action fairy tale. Feyre didn’t spend enough time

hating fae, and barely reflects on the fact she has become what she knows often subjugated her people and more on losing her mortality. She apologizes for klling the faerie, but never challenges the relationship between humans and fae beyond a few mentions to emphasize the faeries brutality. It’s very peculiar, especially since the High Fae look more human than Lesser Fae

Tamlin had the personality of a cardboard box, which I suppose does fit Feyre. The pacing was very odd, with the beginning rather slow and then all the plot happening at the very end. If this series wasn’t so popular, I wouldn’t have given this a second thought.

My favorite characters were Lucien and Nesta, because both of them had some aspects that weren’t obvious from the surface. Everyone else were rather forgettable.

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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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andysanzz_'s review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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rosamaria's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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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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atamano's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous emotional 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: Complicated

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finozbleck'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: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was a decent read/listen. It could have been a stronger first book in the series. It wasn't an amazing enough book for me to want to continue reading the rest of the series, but the general plot and pacing of the story was enjoyable. It felt a little bit too predictable at times. The enemies to lovers trope didn't feel as believable as it could've been, especially as the enemies to lovers trope can sometimes be hard to write well. Tamlin felt very two dimensional and could've used some extra attention in the character development area. With all the hype about the *spiciness*, I was hoping it would be spicy, but it really wasn't all that spicy. As much as I would like to continue, the second half of the book and the ending didn't convince me enough to continue reading the rest of the series.

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