A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES By Sarah J. Maas

Dani Young 

I received this book for free from Reviewer Purchase in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES By Sarah J. MaasA Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses #1
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing on 5/5/15
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, New Adult, Retellings, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 432
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.

At least, he's not a beast all the time.

As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever.

Short and Sweet Review

Feyre is a huntress and she’s the main provider for her family so when she goes out to the woods one day and shots a wolf the last thing she is expecting is another beast to come on her doorstep demanding retribution for what she’s done. The wolf that Feyre killed was actually a faerie from a different land, as a punishment Feyre must live the rest of her life in these lands. While in Prythian Feyre learns that the beast is actually a high lord and that he’s been cursed. There’s something wrong in Prythian and Feyre can feel it and she’s determined to find a way to stop it.

A Court of Thorns and Roses is a Beauty and Beast retelling and its interesting because The Beast (Tamlin) is a faerie with the ability to shape shift into a wolf, Tamlin is a part of the spring court and unfortunately when his court was invited to a masquerade party they were cursed and everyone has a mask stuck to their face. Anyway Feyre spends most of her days brooding around, she’s not really a captive but she thinks she is in her own mind, she’s actually free to roam. Anyway after she realizes that being in Prythian isn’t as bad as she thought it would be she begins to develop feelings for Tamlin. Most of the book takes place in Prythian we see some Faerie parties take place, we learn that there’s something very wrong with the land and there’s a lot of faeries that are a lot weaker than they should be. At one point Tamlin sends Feyre back to her land but she comes back to Prythian because she realizes how much she loves him. Well now Feyre has to go through three trials and prove her love for Tamlin, and while doing this Feyre makes a deal with a faerie that we’ll be seeing more of in book two.

Feyre was an okay character, she was very set in her ways and didn’t think that anyone could be doing anything nice for her. She was kind of annoying in that way that she couldn’t trust anyone not even her sisters. Tamlin was not very important to me he was cursed and that’s about it, you learn more about him from other characters than from himself. The more I think about it the plot was pretty basic, I get that its a retelling but nothing about it wowed me. This is the second time I’ve read this book and even though I want to finish this series, I’m not in a rush to do it and I think that says everything.

Dani

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