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

92 reviews

katierosecrane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.25

This book is heavily based on fairy tales (Beauty and the Beast). I didn’t finish this book the first time a read it but this time I was successful. From what I’ve heard from Maas fans this is her worst book, which for the record was a good book. There were some things I thought should be different in the book but still a great read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Kidnapping, Blood, Bullying, Grief, Alcoholism, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Classism, Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Gaslighting, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Murder, and War

tabea1409's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Alcohol, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Gore, Animal death, Violence, Vomit, Genocide, and Grief

oozesleaze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Gaslighting

arual_14o3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

2/5 First half of the Book was slow. 
Put it down a cupple of times because I was anoyed by Feyra.

4,5/5 Second half of the book was more interesting. Couldn‘t stop reading and listening for the last 30% of the Book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Vomit, Physical abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent, Vomit, Slavery, and Sexual content

miwandie's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Vomit, War, Alcohol, Colonisation, Cursing, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Drug use, Gaslighting, and Violence

druzyquartz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Murder, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Confinement, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Blood, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Torture, Alcohol, and Gaslighting

satanichris's review against another edition

funny 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? Yes

1.5

the main character had no personality, the main couple no development they just suddenly were in love for no reason, the first half of the book is a bunch of just nothing happening and what dies actually happen plot-wise so incredibly cliche, fast, and unserious that I struggled to finish it out of sheer frustration it was BAD. it is also a book with awful gender essentialism which was… so weird.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Violence, Alcohol, Misogyny, Sexism, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Kidnapping, and Vomit

ekcd_'s review against another edition

adventurous fast-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

2.0

This is a very mixed review - I started it as a hate read, so I could properly roast it. But I wound up devouring the book, really. It is essentially beauty and the beast meets twilight, with a double scoop of toxic relationships on top. 

The MC is incredibly bland and at first none of the plot or relationships made any sense. I had a LOT of eye rolling and it wasn't until the end that I realized that MC is bland for a REASON. Having  a blank canvas character allows the reader to project themselves into the story more easily...which is probably why people like it so much. Yearning, romance, sex - its all much more fun when you can imagine your self as the recipient. 

And for that the book did its job. Its a wonderful YA y/n self insert self indulgent book. The spice level is pretty low - the 1.5 scenes were short, laced with metaphors and not particularly racy. But I come from the land AO3. 

The plot was kind of weird, especially the last third with the trials. It seems the second and third books are better BUT i will not be reading them because there are more compelling love stories with muh better sex, slow burn and enemies to lovers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Slavery, Terminal illness, Vomit, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Body horror, Blood, Toxic relationship, Genocide, Murder, Rape, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Chronic illness

mrsmonstargh's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

Keen to read the next book, but not sure I'd read it again

Annoying point of the plot:

The riddle was easy. Why did it take so long to solve? Ignore the riddle and just do the challenges OR make it s more difficult riddle. It was frustrating knowing that plot point was unresolved, no matter how the story kept continuing via the "trials."

Also not a fan of the Beauty and the Beast style Stockholm syndrome. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Torture, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

ninipu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

A lot of inconsistencies.
For example: Tam calls Feyre „You“, she things he can‘t remember her  name. A few sentence after he calls her Feyre, she don’t comment on it. A few sentence after he calls her Feyre again, and now she comments on ist that he know her name…. Yes, Girl, he die that a Minute ago also.
That small, bit wh hen there is stuff like this again and again it become really annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Animal death, Drug abuse, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, and War

Minor: Medical content, Sexual assault, Rape, Ableism, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Vomit