Dan’s Reviews > A Court of Thorns and Roses > Status Update

Home stretch, here we go.

She keeps talking about Hell despite no indication that Christianity exists in this world (in fact, there’s evidence to the contrary).

I know this author is American and we’re not exactly knowledgable about other places, but yikes is it bad that she’s made the Irish and Scottish Highlands equivalents of her world inherently violent.

Jesus Christ this book is so bad. I don’t know why Feyre is blaming Lucien for telling her how to trap the Suriel when she begged him to and he warned against going through with it. For such a martyr she sure has trouble taking responsibility for herself.

I do not understand anything about Feyre’s decision-making process. She makes stupid choices and keeps going back and forth on things, which would be okay if the author allowed us to understand why she’s being a dumb bitch, but there’s nothing like that. Just Feyre being stupid for what appears to be no reason.

I wish she weren’t so horny for this dude immediately upon seeing his humanoid form. That could have been at least interesting seeing her the transition from scared to softening to him to falling in love (where this is obviously going), but instead she’s told us from jump how hot he is, so there’s no tension.

The author keeps saying the characters are “gangly from hunger,” but I’ve never heard that word used in a starvation context before, just a still-growing teenage boy context.

I’m not into romance, I’m not a fantasy fan as a rule, and I REALLY don’t like fairies. But my sister Emily told her friend Emily that the two of us would read this, so here goes nothing, I guess.