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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book has been on my TBR for years and I was excited to finally read it. Bookstagram told me it would be good, but I feel lied to. It read like a mashup of Beauty and the Beast and Howl’s Moving Castle—two stories I love—but I didn’t love this. I didn’t like any of the characters and the story was just… blah. It was slow, I didn’t really care about what happened to any of the characters, and I predicted the plot twist close to the end.

All that being said, friends and family have assured me the series gets better as you go along, so I’ll give the second book a try. The jump from 400 pages to 600 makes me nervous it will be a giant waste of time, but hopefully I will like Mist and Fury better.

ACOTAR gets 2.5/5 for me, but I did finish and I am willing to give the second book a chance.

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chinomi's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

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margaret_oc's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I enjoyed this, it was fun to finally read what everyone else has been reading. A few reasons for my low ish rating are: I found Feyre a bit annoying,

I didn’t quite understand how she and Tamlin fell in love I guess and it didn’t feel super well conveyed to me. Like for example when they first said ily to each other I felt a bit shocked.

My main complaint of this book is that it didn’t feel fast paced enough for 416 pages. I know I’m new to fantasy, but I hoped it would have been more of a page turner based on how much people love the series (although I have heard many say the first book isn’t great, but that the rest of the series is, so I’ll definitely read the second one). It was overall a really well written and interesting story, just not in a page-turner type of way. I think if I connected with/ liked the characters more I would have read it a lot more quickly. ALSO while I think I’ll like the next book, I am completely overwhelmed by this series. The second book being 626 pages and then only increasing feels insane to me😭

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puddinsoup's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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ariel_is_a_dreamer's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first 70% of the book was... quite bad and slow. Then the last 30%, although rushed and requiring a bit of an infodump from one of the characters, was pretty good, written in an earnest fairytale-like manner, with an almost jarring tone shift. That, and the fact that I'm not the target audience for the book, made me give it a generous 3 stars.

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ashley53thompson's review against another edition

2.0

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

It's just not that deep.
The author was a great writer but not so great of a storyteller.

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marissaam12's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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cozyykittyy's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Been on my TBR since 2020…don’t know why I didn’t pick it up sooner! This was such a fun story that I couldn’t get enough of. The pace was perfect — not too slow, not too fast — and I didn’t get bored. The enemies-to-lovers was also executed very well, and it was believable! Feyre’s conflicting emotions about falling in love with a faerie was perfect and said a lot about her character and the rift between fae and humans. The climax was well-done, each chapter leaving me on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next. Can’t wait to start ACOMAF next!

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