A Court Of Thorns And Roses

Sarah J. Maas

4.5 Star Review

I picked up this book because well, who isn’t reading it?

Positives – I loved reading this book. It had all the wonderful aspects a great book should have. Sarah J. Maas has a beautiful style of writing which is enjoyable to read. The description in the book was wonderful but bordered on being overly descriptive. Tamlin *swoon* was gorgeous. How could you not love him? Feyre was a very strong character who faced all her problems head on making her a great female protagonist.

Negatives – This book has some aspects that are VERY similar to The Hunger Games books and Feyre could easily be confused with Katniss in quite a few parts. I understand that The Hunger Games series was amazing but I felt there needed to be a bit more originality. Apart from that though there wasn’t a lot else I could fault with the book. My only other issue was (without giving anything away) that I didn’t completely understand why Feyre didn’t do the one thing (that I felt was an obvious action) that could have fixed everything but then I guess the book would have been a lot shorter.

**Favourite Character – Just for something a bit different I thought I’d add in a bit about my favourite. After I finished the book I was surprised to realise that my favourite character was actually Rhys (Rhysand) rather than Lucien or of course Tamlin or Feyre. I felt the reader (or maybe it was just me), could understand him and his motives much easier than Feyre seemed to. I can’t say anymore because I’d hate to give away any spoilers.

Overall – If you love Beauty and the Beast as well as The Hunger Games then you will no doubt adore this book. Add in a Faerie theme and you get an enchanting fantasy book. I am super excited for the second book but I’m sure I have a long wait ahead of me.

BLURB –

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.