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lilacfoxes 's review for:
A Court of Thorns and Roses
by Sarah J. Maas
adventurous
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
It’s really just not for me.
The writing had moments of hope but was overall pretty poor. I don’t usually read this kind of fiction so if you like it good for you, but there were moments where I was bored of reading about Feyre wandering around the grounds and painting for a few chapters. “He was enormous-the size of a pony” did give me a good laugh though.
Feyre herself was quite uninspired in my opinion, she likes to paint and has to hunt, other than her family dynamic I don’t know what else I can say about her. Maybe this was done so that women could see themselves in her? I don’t know how to explain it but I just couldn’t
I think the ending of our main character, Feyre becoming high fae just sealed the fact I won’t be reading any further into the series. One thing I enjoyed about the book was the fact that she was human, I liked the fact she had weaknesses and the fact that she hated fae was at least a little bit intriguing and kept the enemies to lovers up. Now she’s one of their kind, it just feels even more bland.
I didn’t hate the romance! I thought it was quite nice to begin with to see them soften up to each other but I don’t like the “do as your told” dynamic that much and it felt a little too much at times where consent wasn’t really implied? Although I might be reading too much into that, it still didn’t feel great.
Which brings me onto Rhys or whatever the long version of his name is. He drugged and SA’d her I simply do not care that we are supposed to see him as a “good guy” I hate him. I hate him. She didn’t even want to kiss him and the book makes that clear.I can see where this is going with a stupid love triangle and quite frankly I don’t want to see that.
Sorry if you love this book but it’s a no from me.
The writing had moments of hope but was overall pretty poor. I don’t usually read this kind of fiction so if you like it good for you, but there were moments where I was bored of reading about Feyre wandering around the grounds and painting for a few chapters. “He was enormous-the size of a pony” did give me a good laugh though.
Feyre herself was quite uninspired in my opinion, she likes to paint and has to hunt, other than her family dynamic I don’t know what else I can say about her. Maybe this was done so that women could see themselves in her? I don’t know how to explain it but I just couldn’t
I think the ending of our main character, Feyre becoming high fae just sealed the fact I won’t be reading any further into the series. One thing I enjoyed about the book was the fact that she was human, I liked the fact she had weaknesses and the fact that she hated fae was at least a little bit intriguing and kept the enemies to lovers up. Now she’s one of their kind, it just feels even more bland.
I didn’t hate the romance! I thought it was quite nice to begin with to see them soften up to each other but I don’t like the “do as your told” dynamic that much and it felt a little too much at times where consent wasn’t really implied? Although I might be reading too much into that, it still didn’t feel great.
Which brings me onto Rhys or whatever the long version of his name is. He drugged and SA’d her I simply do not care that we are supposed to see him as a “good guy” I hate him. I hate him. She didn’t even want to kiss him and the book makes that clear.I can see where this is going with a stupid love triangle and quite frankly I don’t want to see that.
Sorry if you love this book but it’s a no from me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Classism