From the Bookshelf of ♥ Nothing Better Than Reading!! ♥ …

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)

Sarah J. Maas

Discussion: Book/Genre of the Month

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of 169 topics — 1,401 comments total

Book/Genre of the Month

* The System
By A , Crazy. · 2 posts · 468 views

last updated Nov 26, 2020 11:02AM

Your books in 2023
By Miriam · 3 posts · 19 views

last updated Jan 23, 2023 11:40PM

showing 10 of 16 topics view all »

What Members Thought

Sep 01, 2019 Kristal Fleming rated it really liked it

There was to many questions at the end. I loved how it flowed and its style was perfect.

2 likes · Like · see review

Jun 12, 2023 Janice rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. First of all I will not fault this book for BookTok lying to me but where was the spice? Have I been so tainted and traumatized that I expected Ghost Peppers and you gave me Jalapeños and I just didn't notice? I do not think so! This is what I get for trusting strangers. May the spice flow in future books.

Back to this book... It follows Feyre (think Belle if Belle was illertate so she decided art was her thing instead of reading) trying to help her family survive. She goes wandering the woods, k First of all I will not fault this book for BookTok lying to me but where was the spice? Have I been so tainted and traumatized that I expected Ghost Peppers and you gave me Jalapeños and I just didn't notice? I do not think so! This is what I get for trusting strangers. May the spice flow in future books.

Back to this book... It follows Feyre (think Belle if Belle was illertate so she decided art was her thing instead of reading) trying to help her family survive. She goes wandering the woods, kills a deer minding her own buisness and a wolf that wasn't a wolf. Then the consequences of her actions shows up, takes her to his mansion, tells her she can go wherever but it may not be safe, and takes care of her family which so far my romance fantasy brain is hopeful even though I’m not really bonding with the FMC. Mr. Dreamboat-Werewolf-Wannabe falls in love with her and sends her away for her own safety and thus endures some trauma that we get glimpses of but NO ONE talks about like its name is Bruno. I understand the bat obsession on TikTok now.However, I'd like to point out his bouquet of red flags that may or may no be trauma related but are there and I hope at some point get addressed. I think all fae are just emotionally damaged at this point and that's why fae wine is so strong. The ending made me ask what in the Edward Cullen ___ dream was happening.

Points for:
Definitely keeping the first person personality consistent, even when she's annoying
Bat boy cause I love the red flags even though I shouldn't
Legolas Lupin the Fae Version having way more patience with Feyre then I had
Smexy Mad Eye Moody Fae. If I have to have that mental image, so do you. ALSO he deserves the world, I'm calling it now.
Creating a vibrant world and a fandom that kind of scares me.

Points off for:
Feyre not asking the questions I wanna know or explain certain parts of the world. I am letting this slide a little because of the gag order part but still I had questions and I want answers and this girl is WAY too trusting.
Nesta and Elaine are just foils who sometimes serve the plot but if they disappeared I feel like their dad would have filled the role fine. May pay off in later books though.
Feyre took the news of who that wolf really was WAY better than I would have
Look you get the points back for how it played out but I initially took points off for it not being Alice and her nephews when Amarantha went all Astrid from Skyrim.
Making me feel like I am worse than Amarantha (see above).

On a way more serious note without me numbing potential spoilers with random references, I am going to be continuing the series. I have hope that the series overall will live up to the hype and this was just the start. I'd still recommend it BUT I would add a potential trigger warning for borderline SA due to what happens between Feyre and Rhysand under the mountain. While people seem to ship those two a lot, the situation here is inappropriate and could potentially trigger someone. It makes me nervous how it will be handled in the future if at all.

3.5/5 stars but rounding up because I wanna see the Fae version of vampires vs werewolves play out. ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Apr 06, 2018 Vidhya rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book started off quite slow. The kingdoms that the author was trying to create was quite difficult to imagine. All the winter courts, night courts, day courts - Just way too many courts for me to remember,
Nevertheless - I kept reading, just to understand why a faerie looked like a wolf? Why were they considered dangerous? And some plots just seemed too ridiculous. Like why would the faerie have a treaty that said a life for a life and take a human into their court? Why was Feyre being treat ...more

1 like · Like · see review

Aug 05, 2016 Lisa rated it it was amazing

I loved this book.
I liked the story and loved Tamlin and Lucien. I thought they were great.
But I do wonder what the sequel will be about but I'll know soon enough. ...more

Like · see review

Nov 22, 2015 Melli rated it it was amazing

Ok so a read the book a for a second time, which I do not ever do. I don’t re-read books but I bought it for my daughter and remembered I enjoyed it well let’s just say I added a star to my rating. I enjoyed it the second time around and bought the rest of the series because I now want to continue it..

Like · see review