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A Court of Thorns and Roses (Parts 1 & 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] by Sarah J. Maas

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_nikita's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Basically beauty in the beast meets howls moving castle meets katniss everdeen protagonist design.

It had some good moments but also some awkward, cringey line choices & scenes. The romance was also meh.

I'm intrigued to know how the author will make tamlin a bad guy after this book and eventually make us (the reader) root for rhysand instead

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snackykennedy's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

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mattyvreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

Ummm. So it’s not a good book, by any stretch of the imagination. It reads like a fan fiction of nothing if that makes sense. There were some laughably bad parts and some parts that were almost redeeming, but then not.

I don’t think I’m the target audience. I don’t mind thinly disguised erotica, but if you’re gonna have muscled (presumably hung) male fairies lounging about, you can only hope for some guy on guy action. None. Painfully straight. Alas… a guy can dream.

Our protagonist is vaguely annoying and egregiously underdeveloped. Appreciating colors in paintings is not a meaningful character trait, in my humble opinion. Besides that, a large portion of this book is giving internalized misogyny. I don’t know how else to put it.

Imagine living for a man…. Literally pathetic.

Lastly, this world’s version of a condom, “the contraceptive brew,” is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. I really don’t think it was supposed to be a joke, which is what disturbs me even more. Maybe the author was dared to put that in.

Anyway, this book is basically a porno. Not well-written, but mostly entertaining. Will probably read the sequels.

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greyishrainbow's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

I absolutely loved the start to this series. I’ve been putting off reading this for so long because it’s so hyped up but I absolutely loved it. I don’t understand how people call this book spicy, to me there is very little spice but hopefully that improves as the series goes on..

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lizziaha's review against another edition

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Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

I think one of the reasons that this book reads so easy, and why I didn’t love it, is that everything seems a little too convenient. Everything goes according to plan. Feyre, no matter how stupid she acts—and she does some TRULY inexplicable and delusional things—always manages to come out on top. She gives us no reason to believe that she is capable of the things she pulls off, and yet, it just happens for her. It’s simultaneously not really believable and hugely predictable. I think this is the pitfall of writing an “badass” female MC without fleshing out any systemic failures. Sure, she can kick ass, and that’s hot to every gorgeous man she comes across, but at what cost? We don’t get to see any character development. Even in moments where she struggles, it’s hard to reach any depth of emotion about it, because you know that everything is going to magically work out. And speaking of magic, SJM threw out everything interesting about fae stories, everything that makes them complex, and decided to emphasize the boringest parts of them (sexy, immortal, maybe evil? but probably not). Another area that SJM decided to abandon complexity is the worldbuilding. It’s flimsy. Functional at surface level but if you look ANY deeper it crumbles. I think that plot-driven stories are always at risk of this because they can fail to really examine character motivations, but this one also just feels like a lack of forethought on the author’s part. All in all, the story is fine. I don’t particularly like Beauty and Beast or retellings, and I especially don’t like beauty and the beast retellings, but despite that, the story did move along. Maybe if you read it fast enough, you can just glide past all the issues.

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kermit_the_wrong's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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shaylnm's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Once I got past the talking animals part I loved this book

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miwandie's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Feyre is a little bit of a pick me but we love her for that. Lucien is my little angel and I would kill for him, the rat bastard.

Some of the word choices and descriptions were a bit immature and YA, but not too distracting that it ruined the read. Just a lil cringe at times. The world and creature building was fantastic.

I recommended to my boyfriend who is much more well-versed in fantasy stories, which says a lot in my opinion.

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gpfot's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

4.75

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jnterhune's review against another edition

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adventurous funny inspiring 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? No

5.0

Wow! This book is so good and I can not stop thinking about it. I will admit it starts very slow and was hard to get through the first few chapters, but once it hits it’s fast on throughout. I can not get over this story, I’m someone to always see plots and this one kept me focused and unable to guess and see what would come. It is one of the longest books I’ve read and I wouldn’t even have noticed the difference cause it keeps my attention so well. I highly recommend stayed up till 2am reading one night, second one is just as good so far. Love it and is in my top three all favorite books.

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