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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

1716 reviews

sweetsanchia's review against another edition

2.75

sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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hayleyw's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I rolled my eyes every other minute. That said I will be reading the next one.

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jankahra's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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bellsdixon's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious 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: No

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whats_miranda_reading's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

The start of this book is rough and the main character is almost unbearable.

Part of the ending seemed predictable. With all the build up the author took to understand the plot and the amount of details in the end, I really expected more struggle at times. There were twists I was expecting to make the challenges even more difficult for the main character.

I also think I’m not the kind of person who’s into romantasy/fantasy and that’s okay. I’m going to give the next book a shot since the end of this book did get a bit better. I also don’t like to leave series unfinished and friends have been repeatedly telling me the other books are better.

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jameszd's review against another edition

1.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book feels like the author tried to create a strong female lead, but instead made a competent woman whose competence is used by a man to further his own plans to her detriment. Which she's totally cool with because of her crippling self loathing. No level of harm done to the main character was treated as consequential, except as a way to motivate her kidnapper/lover to do something. All with random fits of sexy time thrown in to distract. This book was a marvelous depiction of abuse but for some reason it seems both the author and many of the readers have confused that with romance. Which is... Concerning...

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filipa_maia's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

If you told me that SJMAAS hates this main character, I would believe you. I've never seen so much gaslighting and victim-blaming towards a character as was done to Feyre. None of them deserves her. Not her family and definitely not Tamlin (I'll probably change my mind later, this is just the first book).

The story drags on in the first half of the book, but then it becomes so engaging that it is worth it. Amarantha is such a great villain!

I loved all of this. I can't wait for the next book - 4 stars!

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