A review by bea_reads_books
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Okay I really really wanted to love this book, but I just… didn’t. 

1. I didn’t like that Feyre is such a “not like other girls” girl (god I wish fantasy as a whole would retire this tired trope). 

2. The romance made absolutely no sense to me, and I’ve been told that it is explained in the next books and begins to make more sense, but considering that it’s marketed as a fantasy romance and that’s what I was expecting to get, it was just a let down. I genuinely could not tell who Feyre’s love interest was supposed to be until
she slept with Tamlin
. I felt like she had much better chemistry with
Lucien
anyway.

3. The writing style was so… disjointed. I think because it’s written as YA but with random sex and violence and gore thrown in to make it more “adult”. 
After Feyre goes Under the Mountain, things get so dark out of absolutely nowhere. As someone who finds gore very triggering I would have REALLY appreciated a warning of some kind. The violence from Amarantha just seems so senseless, and I can’t understand why all the graphic depictions of mutilated bodies was necessary.



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