Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Barbara Bilsky
- Mar 6, 2017
- 3 min read
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Genre: Fantasy
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 432
Format: eBook
Rating: ★★★★ 1/2
There may be some slight spoilers in this review. Please be warned.
This book was a pleasant surprise for me and I’m glad I gave it a second chance. I tried reading this book before and ended up DNFing it because something about it wasn’t clicking for me. I can’t explain exactly what it was but I was just dragging through the first few chapters. It always stuck with me though. It seemed every time I looked on Goodreads and BookTube videos in general it was there haunting me. What appealed to me in the first place was the fact that it’s a Beauty and the Beast retelling. I’m not sure what exactly caused it but I decided to check it out of the library again. I was going to give it one more chance to prove to me it was worth it.
Oh boy was it worth it!
This time even from the start I was very interested in the story. Feyre (which is a beautiful name by the way) was a pretty strong character in my mind. While she and her family never really got along, Feyre made sure she did everything she could to get food on the table. She mentioned a few times that Nesta and Elain couldn’t possibly go hunting for their food and yet the two girls could chop wood which is a pretty hefty thing to do. What I’m trying to explain is that Feyre couldn’t stand to see her sisters skulking around the frozen woods to hunt for their food. While yes th
ere is that bit of resentment that they could sit at home, Feyre didn’t want them to have to got through killing an animal even if it was to keep from starving. Their father though did get on my nerves. I couldn’t stand that fact that he just gave up on not only himself but his daughters too. I’m glad he wasn’t mentioned too much in the book because I think it would have ruined it for me.
The faeries were the most interesting (as they should be). I’ll start with Lucien, Tamlin’s emissary. I’m not really sure where I stand with him. Part of me wants to jump to the conclusion that he should have been helping Feyre out more, that he deserved what he happened in the second task because of his attitude throughout the first half of the book but then again he had his own past that made him the way he is. There are still prejudices that exist in the realms and maybe it’s harder to let go that anyone thinks. He’s not a bad faerie but I do hope he redeems himself slightly in the second book.
Now come the two complicated faeries, Tamlin and the rather mystic Rhysand. I’m kind of stumped with how to think of them at this point. I’m not 100% sure where each of them stands, what additional roll they have to play in the next book. I keep seeing stuff about the all of the ships that are sailing with this book but I’m not going to let that sway me with the story. I’m very excited to see where A Court of Mist and Fury goes.
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