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

Sarah J. Maas

Start date: November 1, 2022

Finish date: November 30, 2022

Discussion: MODERN / POPULAR READS

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Jan 23, 2016 Carrie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, fantasy, fantasy-romance, fae, fairies, need-to-buy-in-paperback, magical

Dec 2020 update:

Going back and rereading this after being caught up in the series is such a different feeling, catching the hints and reading between the lines. Knowing the characters and the why. An insider rather then an outsider.

Also I never realized that this reread was almost 5 years later.

Jan 2016
If you are a lover of Beauty and the Beast retellings, if you like your fantasy to involve magical realms, fairies, romance, a wickedness that is just too good then you'll enjoy this book.

Can n ...more

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Jan 17, 2017 Lori Murray rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: amazon-books

Pretty awesome start of a Series!!!! I would have to say I really think this series is going to take me on a very interesting and awesome adventure. I would have to say my favorite character was Rhysand, what can I say I really love a bad boy. I also felt more chemistry between him and Feyre than Feyre and Tamlin. I thought Tamlin did really care for Feyre though. I did see some chemistry between them through but just not as much.
I do have to say it did start off pretty slowly for me but once Fe ...more

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Jul 25, 2023 Kristen rated it liked it

Was this a great American novel? No. The plotting was weird, the character development is seriously lacking. Thinking back on it now, I'm actually confused and frustrated about SO much. However, was this an enjoyable, quick, fun read? Yes... Will I finish the remainder of the series? Also yes. ...more

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Mar 18, 2018 Denise rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

After reading THE CRUEL PRINCE earlier this year, I decided that it was time to jump into a longer series, and take a journey with the Fae. I figured since ACOTAR was so beloved, it would be a great starting point; and with the 4th book releasing soon, it would give incentive to binge the series. I was a bit skeptical, because fantasy is still a very new genre for me. I wasn't sure I could buy into a world so fantastical. I'm happy to say, the buy in was easy! I loved the world. It was vicious a ...more

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Aug 29, 2019 Sarina rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, my-ebooks, retelling-mostly-fairy-tales, mystery-crime-thriller-suspense, fantasy-and-or-magic, ya-or-and-na

Initial Review:
Read in bits and pieces. Perhaps that is part of the reason this book was ok, but intrigued me enough to start the sequel.
My rating: 2 stars.

Re-read Review:
Again, read mostly in bits and pieces. I liked how the story was written, for the most part; especially knowing what I know now, after having finished the books published till now in the series quite a while ago, I kept looking for clues for major plot reveals for the others, and found that they did exist, but so subtly tha ...more

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Jan 23, 2019 Ketutar Jensen rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: dnf, it-should-have-been-good

Might be spoilers ahead. Now, I didn't finish this book, so I'm not spoiling any end, but there might be some information here that spoils the story for you. Read on on your own risk.

I HATE Sarah Maas' heroines!

Feyre kills somebody and is to pay a life for a life.
She gets to choose whether she dies in front of her family, or goes to the fairyland and never sees her family again, giving her life to the fairies as compensation for the life she took.
She chooses to live.
And starts immediately to Might be spoilers ahead. Now, I didn't finish this book, so I'm not spoiling any end, but there might be some information here that spoils the story for you. Read on on your own risk.

I HATE Sarah Maas' heroines!

Feyre kills somebody and is to pay a life for a life.
She gets to choose whether she dies in front of her family, or goes to the fairyland and never sees her family again, giving her life to the fairies as compensation for the life she took.
She chooses to live.
And starts immediately to whine about it.

The fairy is doing his best to give her as nice a life in the fairyland as he can, and does a good job, but she is whining and moping and trying to get away from the deal. He does nothing but nice things to her, and she complains. He tells her to do things for her own safety and wellbeing, and she disobeys, and when the shit hits the fan, she blames him for it.
I mean, she says she worries about her family, that they can't survive without her, and the fairy tells her they are being provided for, but only for as long as she stays put in the fairyland. He tells her that there's a reasonable cover story in place, and that the people aren't worried about her.
What she does is start whining because her sisters who despised and bullied her, don't care about her, and her father who was too weak to do anything to defend her, save her, protect her, didn't defend and protect her (from the consequences of her own actions) and doesn't come to save her. HOW, miss Feyre, HOW COULD HE?! He's an old, crippled, poor man with no friends or influence in the world, HOW COULD HE COME AND RESCUE YOU? HE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE YOU ARE! And all that is the fairy's fault. He's being mean for keeping her away from her family, it's his fault that the people who didn't care about her before, don't care about her now. Geesh!

She's 19 and basically grown in a barrel, but she is smarter than the fairies and everyone falls in love with her, because she's... what ever. I suppose it's because she's a marysue, and smells irresistible or something. I don't know. We are supposed to believe she's all that, and when in Throne of Glass Sarah told us her heroine is all that, here she tries at least to make her heroine do some stuff to explain her amazingness. Fails, though, because some staged shows of how smart and kind and noble she is, can't outweigh how she behaves and reasons the rest of the time.

And the constant "I'm not as pretty as...", "i'm not as good a painter as..." Stop comparing yourself to others and learn to take a compliment!

The writing is OK in my mind, the story is interesting, but Feyre is just too much. Life is too short to read books you don't like, and there's enough books you like in the world to DNF books that irk you. ...more

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Jun 29, 2017 Amy Ellis rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I got this for my book swap partner and read it before I sent it. It's not great literature, but it's super entertaining. Beauty and the Beast meets Fablehaven meets Narnia. I really liked it and ignored my family to finish it--sure sign of either a great book or me putting off making dinner :) ...more

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