A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Jun 04, 2014 cc marked it as nope

Shelves: love-triangle-ugh, 2015-published, fairytale-retelling, beauty-and-the-beast, east-of-the-sun-west-of-the-moon, tam-lin

A retelling of Beauty and the Beast AND East of the Sun, West of the Moon???

please please don't love triangle

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Okay, so apparently it triangles

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Oct 14, 2019 Moondance rated it liked it

Shelves: fae, beauty-and-the-beast, ya, sos-bingo-2019, didn-t-wow-me

The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice.

Feyre is hunting to provide food for her family. Her life has been very hard since her father became disabled and lost his wealth. She has to contend with two high maintenance sisters as well. A hunting trip ends with her killing a "wolf" that had attacked the deer she was stalking. Unbeknownst to Feyre, the wolf is a shapeshifter and she has violated a treaty between humans and the fae. She is given the choice of death or to taken to the fae la ...more

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Jan 08, 2017 Melanie rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, fantasy, ya, flawed-tortured-hero, beauty-and-the-beast, heroine-saves-hero, captive-hero-or-heroine, fantasy-romance, first-loves, fae

I liked this book, but it could have been better - I'm a huge fan of Beauty and the Beast retellings, and this one seemed interwoven with the Tam Lin myth, so it looked like my cup of fantasy/romance tea. HOWEVER, I wasn't a huge fan of Tam - I never felt as though he actually DID anything other than 'kidnap' Feyre. (view spoiler) ...more

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May 07, 2016 KarenF rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, own, young-adult

3.5 *s. So I'm having a hard time rating this. As other reviewers have stated, it did get off to a slow start. The first 100 pages or so were pretty easy to put down. I'm OK with that in a fantasy since I find a lot of them have a slow start, with all the world building. But once things got going I probably read the last 300 pages in the same amount of time as the first 100. I liked Feyre as a character and I thought she tried to do the best she could in a shitty situation. I'm not sure how I fe ...more

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Dec 31, 2014 Katie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, five-star-2015

If you like faeries; you are going to fall in love with this book! I would also recommend it for all of the push/pull slow building relationship lovers. This book is paced well, the characters are all intriguing...right down to Alis the maid! My favorite so far is Lucien. Feyre is a little weak in this book - but she is human, afterall... I think this world is centered around Tamlin, anyway. He has all of the interesting faeries in his court. There is one other unknown factor in the night court ...more

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