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A Court of Thorns and Roses (Parts 1 & 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] by Sarah J. Maas
440 reviews
devthedev's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual assault
drjoannehill's review against another edition
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Sorry to say, this was a tiny bit disappointing after all the hype. Very short review: It's enjoyable enough if you can ignore some very rushed parts and a rubbish villain. I will give the second book in the series a chance (because I already bought it!).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual assault, Blood, and Vomit
Minor: Sexual content
robotnik's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Is there like... a cult initiation I need to take when I admit I enjoyed the shit out of this? Because this feels like one of those books where I'm joining a cult because I really liked it. I'm okay with a cult if it means we get stylish cult robes.
I'll admit, there was a point where it felt a little draggy and there were a couple moments that were a little cringey (for lack of a better word), which is why I'm settling for four stars instead of five. Aside from that, I honestly really enjoyed my first time reading a SJM book. It was better than I expected it would be, especially since it seems to be one of those either love it or hate it sorts of books. I was looking for those moments where I was just going to hate it, but I didn't find them.
The only thing I find kind of lacking is I didn't find Amarantha a very compelling villain. As far as feeling threatening and all that, she's probably a 6/10 at most for me. She was okay, but still kind of blah and stereotypical for me.
I don't know what to expect for the rest of the series, but I'm going to be tentatively looking forward to it.
I'll admit, there was a point where it felt a little draggy and there were a couple moments that were a little cringey (for lack of a better word), which is why I'm settling for four stars instead of five. Aside from that, I honestly really enjoyed my first time reading a SJM book. It was better than I expected it would be, especially since it seems to be one of those either love it or hate it sorts of books. I was looking for those moments where I was just going to hate it, but I didn't find them.
The only thing I find kind of lacking is I didn't find Amarantha a very compelling villain. As far as feeling threatening and all that, she's probably a 6/10 at most for me. She was okay, but still kind of blah and stereotypical for me.
I don't know what to expect for the rest of the series, but I'm going to be tentatively looking forward to it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Sexual assault, and Torture
sipblueberrytea's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
I’m sorry how is this so popular? So many things are wrong with this and it’s deeply unsettling that so many people don’t see anything wrong with it. Multiple times the main character gets sexually harassed or assaulted by the “love interests” and every single time it’s justified in favour of the men that forced themselves onto her. She was even blamed for one of the instances. Now the main character herself isn’t much better. She’s stupid and passive until it’s time to make such an obviously terrible decision. The first 60-70% of the book are no plot and all romance and then plot and gore random drop in during the last 30%. Also, can we talk about how only 5 women (Feyre, Nesta, Elaine, Alice, Amarantha) are present and somewhat relevant in the book and 2 of them are depicted as villains, one is disagreeable to the main character, another is vain and stupid, and the main character herself is just as idiotic? It’s boring, rushed, and utterly a waste of my time. Read it on audiobook at 1.75 speed or would never have gotten through it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
sophieteexo's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
inspiring
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
SPOILERS!!!
*Read as an audiobook* total 16hrs 7min
Right from the start of the story I was captivated and could fully imagine the scenery, the characters, the world that was building. That’s one thing I will say about this story, it’s rather easily to follow and pulls you into a new world, making it almost cinematic.
The thing I will say about this story is that for me it was a very slow burn and it didn’t start to get interesting until around 75% of the way and then it got rather boring again, I wasn’t interested in the ending of the story, it didn’t give a wow factor, in fact maybe even ended disappointing even… I think that was due to it feeling very rushed towards the last few chapters. It got so good when Fayre was participating in that first trial game and made me really imagine it all but then after that it just felt really rushed. Not sure I would have finished the story tbh if I had read the physical book just because it was such a long slow burn and I don’t want to read a book that doesn’t get good until it’s practically finished but I get it takes time to build up the characters and worlds etc but I think I would have DNF it if I had read physically read it but I’m glad I kept going with the audiobook. I thought Jennifer Ikeda done a brilliant job narrating it.
From the start I just really didn’t like Feyre. I found her rather annoying, immature and just didn’t LOVE her character even though she was the main character so for me I just couldn’t connect with her. I found the beginning repetitive too. The constant some vocabulary throughout, like seriously how many times can someone CLICK THEIR TONGUE 😭
I didn’t even love Feyre and Tamlin together. It was forced and I can’t really remember when they fell in love and before I knew it she’s fighting for his and her life in that mountain like when, why, where and how?? I thought Feyre had more chemistry with Lucien and I actually was secretly rooting for them to get together 😅 and especially during the trials he was so sweet with her. Yes Rhysand is out of this world sexy but he’s a sociopath and even though I wasn’t very fond of Feyre the whole faerie wine and lap dancing scenes were random, disgusting and cruel.
I will continue with the series as I did find it easy to follow and tbh I fell in love with Prythian, like forget the lame characters I just wanna live in that beautiful world.
Also, as brutal as she was I actually found Amarantha an interesting character and I liked how a female was such a powerful character. I found her so easy to imagine from her description. In fact I found a lot of the characters just so easy to imagine tbh and that’s what I overall really did enjoy about this story.
Favourite quote: “And your hair is…clean.” Perhaps it was my raging hunger making me hallucinate the piss-poor attempt at flattery.'
Favourite chapter: 36, 40, 44
*Read as an audiobook* total 16hrs 7min
Right from the start of the story I was captivated and could fully imagine the scenery, the characters, the world that was building. That’s one thing I will say about this story, it’s rather easily to follow and pulls you into a new world, making it almost cinematic.
The thing I will say about this story is that for me it was a very slow burn and it didn’t start to get interesting until around 75% of the way and then it got rather boring again, I wasn’t interested in the ending of the story, it didn’t give a wow factor, in fact maybe even ended disappointing even… I think that was due to it feeling very rushed towards the last few chapters. It got so good when Fayre was participating in that first trial game and made me really imagine it all but then after that it just felt really rushed. Not sure I would have finished the story tbh if I had read the physical book just because it was such a long slow burn and I don’t want to read a book that doesn’t get good until it’s practically finished but I get it takes time to build up the characters and worlds etc but I think I would have DNF it if I had read physically read it but I’m glad I kept going with the audiobook. I thought Jennifer Ikeda done a brilliant job narrating it.
From the start I just really didn’t like Feyre. I found her rather annoying, immature and just didn’t LOVE her character even though she was the main character so for me I just couldn’t connect with her. I found the beginning repetitive too. The constant some vocabulary throughout, like seriously how many times can someone CLICK THEIR TONGUE 😭
I didn’t even love Feyre and Tamlin together. It was forced and I can’t really remember when they fell in love and before I knew it she’s fighting for his and her life in that mountain like when, why, where and how?? I thought Feyre had more chemistry with Lucien and I actually was secretly rooting for them to get together 😅 and especially during the trials he was so sweet with her. Yes Rhysand is out of this world sexy but he’s a sociopath and even though I wasn’t very fond of Feyre the whole faerie wine and lap dancing scenes were random, disgusting and cruel.
I will continue with the series as I did find it easy to follow and tbh I fell in love with Prythian, like forget the lame characters I just wanna live in that beautiful world.
Also, as brutal as she was I actually found Amarantha an interesting character and I liked how a female was such a powerful character. I found her so easy to imagine from her description. In fact I found a lot of the characters just so easy to imagine tbh and that’s what I overall really did enjoy about this story.
Favourite quote: “And your hair is…clean.” Perhaps it was my raging hunger making me hallucinate the piss-poor attempt at flattery.'
Favourite chapter: 36, 40, 44
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Sexual harassment
chronic_listener's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual assault, Vomit, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and War
Minor: Child death
rewatchrereadrewind's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Torture, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Slavery, Excrement, and Vomit
Minor: Sexual assault
puddleshoes's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Murder
thecasualbooknerd's review against another edition
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I understand the hype, as it is an engaging story. However the themes, including forced sexual relations and confinement/isolation, not to mention the sheer violence and torture, were less engaging. If you want to read SJ Maas, go for Throne if Glass.
Also it took me way too long to realise this was a Beauty & the Beast retelling, but it is by far my least favourite one
Also it took me way too long to realise this was a Beauty & the Beast retelling, but it is by far my least favourite one
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual content
Minor: Gaslighting
samnicsim's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
This was my first dive into any sort of “smut” related media since my watt pad days (if you know, you know). I had heard of everyone speaking of it but didn’t read it sooner since the thought of reading smut was A LOT for me personally. However, this book was not what you’d assume typical smut is at all. This book is full of adventure, a troubled female main character, magic, wonder, intrigue and the writer makes it so beyond easy to delve yourself entirely into this world! The characters are diverse and are described perfectly. You’re able to see how much love and thought was most likely put into them all and the pages just ooze passion to me. I immediately purchased the entire box set after ordering just this first book. It’s pacing is perfect and the author leaves you wanting more after every chapter. Please do give it a try if you’re a lover of fantasy and romance and need a mental get-a-way!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism
Minor: Sexual assault