A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas ★★★ 3.5

I'm giving this book 3.5 stars. Here's why:

• I love Lucien very, very much.
• The world. THE WORLD!
• A fancy, giant mansion? Yes, please.
• Beauty & The Beast!!! x a million.
• Sarah J. Maas = <3

This book. It broke my heart.

In not a good way.

This was my MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2015! For real. And I think Sarah J. Maas is a brilliant writer. I've only read Throne of Glass, but I was beyond impressed.

Beauty and the Beast is my absolute, #1, all time favorite movie/story ever. The Disney movie is total perfection. I can't watch it too many times. I love everything about it, and the Beast/Prince Adam is definitely, without a doubt my favorite Disney prince.

So I cannot even tell you how stoked I was to read this book. I checked it out from the library (I was #1 on the hold list & I got the book AS SOON AS POSSIBLY POSSIBLE). Then I realized I had like 11 other books to read that were due before this one. So I read them first. It hurt. I just wanted to read ACOTAR so, so badly. Then I finally read it. And. It wasn't the most beautiful, perfect, enchanting, gorgeous story ever written. Maybe my expectations were too high. But I actually didn't even enjoy it THAT much. It was good. It was better than good, but not great. And I'm so sad about that. Also the cover is beautiful. It had everything going for it! Why was it such a letdown?!

Man.

It's going to take me a while to recover from this. But let me get started on the actual review, before I rant until the end of time.

I thought Feyre was a good character. I didn't hate her. But I didn't love her like I loved Celaena in the Throne of Glass series (or at least the first book). I liked Tamlin. But I wasn't absolutely in love with him. He wasn't even close to Dorian & Chaol. I'm crazy about Dorian, btw. I DID love Lucien. Lucien is hilarious and he was so real. I'd go for him if I were Feyre.

The world was INCREDIBLE. Prythian seemed so achingly beautiful. I wanted to live there! I want to see the starlight water! I want to run through the feather-soft grass! So, the world was definitely the best part for me. Great job with that, Sarah Maas.

I have a weakness for princess books. I love when the main character gets to wear pretty dresses, eat glorious foods, go to elaborate balls and celebrations. So all of that was good. Great, even. I really enjoyed the Spring Court.

However, the plot was lacking for me. It was REALLY good in the end. Because of the end, I'll likely read the next book. And because it's Sarah. Sarah gets another chance. The end was action-packed, had me flying through the pages, and was just... pretty epic in lots of ways. But that was like the last 20% of the book or so. After Tamlin got taken, things got interesting.

ALSO. I totally love Rhysand. I shouldn't, probably. But I think he's a good guy! He was just so much more interesting than Tamlin. Tamlin was... boring. I feel like I still don't know much about him, and that might be where the book fell so short. I needed to love the characters! And I just didn't.

I AM excited for the next book. I think it will be better. And I think that lots of people will love this book. I just didn't. Just don't have your hopes up too unreachably high.