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

Sarah J. Maas

Start date: June 22, 2015

Finish date: June 30, 2015

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Jan 04, 2015 Morgan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, fantasy, geek-appeal, five-star-reads, fiction, young-adult, romance, tales-retold, faeries, kindle-read

Hi. My name is Morgan, and I did not like Throne of Glass.

I am, however, unable to pass up faeries or a potential retelling. Sewwww ... This happened.

As you can already see by my star rating, I REALLY LIKED THIS. Which is crazy with how annoyed I was with Throne of Glass and the MC... and basically all of it's everything.

I can see shades of Beauty and the Beast in this, but I also think Feyre is a bit more of the Beast than the Beauty in a lot of ways. (AND I LIKED IT.) She wasn't some simpering ...more

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Jun 17, 2017 Kristin rated it liked it

Shelves: series, fantasy, supernatural, romance, re-reads, read-in-2017, read-in-2021

I loved it! Can't wait to continue the series!

Read #2 (December 2020): 3.5 stars
I didn't enjoy the story as much this go around, but it's okay because I know ACOMAF is going to be THAT BOOK for me I'm so excited! ...more

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Mar 03, 2017 Vicky rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, fairy-tales, retellings, own-book, setting-fantasy, zz-cover-color-red, z-author-american-usa, series-waiting-on-release

I will admit, I had some trouble getting off the ground with A Court of Thorns and Roses.

The story is a retelling and I felt that much of the beginning was unoriginal. Granted there was the introduction of the Fae to give it a spin, but the basics were all there and predictable. The cursed Beast who is running out of time. The curse that keeps a masquerade mask in place on the face of every Spring Court Fae (instead of turning them all into animate inanimate objects). The Beast who is trying to ...more

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Mar 02, 2017 Jamie ~ Bad Boy Inspector rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-paranormal-romance, genre-urban-fantasy, subject-pn-fae

4.5/5

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Jan 11, 2016 Seahorse Library rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-romance, following-email, active-series, genre-ya, genre-fantasy, on-my-bookshelf

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Reading History:

Read - January 2016
Re Read - May 2016
Re Read - May 2018 - after reading A Court of Frost & Starlight, I felt the need to go back to where it all began. I do love these characters :)
Re Read - November 2019
Re Read - February 2020

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Why I picked it up:

I received this one from Bloomsbury in exchange for an honest review. I actually picked it up and started reading it a couple of times, before finally sitting down and committing to it 100%.

My Tho ...more

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Apr 12, 2017 Morgan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, paranormal, five-star-reads, horror, young-adult, tales-retold, mythology-and-folklore, re-reads, faeries

::Re-reading::

Original review -- here

Considering the fact that I liked it so much the first time around, I wasn't expecting to have one of those "keep reading the book way past when you really should have already put the kindle down and gone to bed" moments this time around.

But I did. Twice.

Last night I finished it and immediately started in on A Court of Mist and Fury.

#fingerscrossed that things stay this good. ...more

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Feb 23, 2016 Irene Hollimon rated it it was amazing

Fantasy - I like the romance, the world, the characters and the story in general. But... what really sticks out in this book is the weakest set up for the next book I have EVER read- I don't we're in spoiler territory to say Rhysand makes it to the end of the book. The set up occurs close to the end of the book Rhysand is in the middle of a discussion and... poof! gets startled and is yanked out of the scene never to reappear- no more information is given. By implication we're pretty sure he's n ...more

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Oct 27, 2019 Samantha rated it really liked it

I enjoyed the book, it was a quick read. It didn’t grab my the way other YAs of a similar genre have, but I will keep reading the series and hope it gets better or at least is entertaining.

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