Review:
I must confess that I read
A Court of Thorns and Roses by peer pressure. Joana kept talking about this book and how much she liked it; and this is one of me the most loved books of all bookstagram community (well, to say the truth
A Court of Mist and Fury is the one, but you need to get through ACOTAR to get to this book).
I buddy read this book with a girl I met on bookstagram, and it was an interesting experience – this was something I already have done with Joana, while reading
The Lunar Chronicles. It’s such awesome way to read, because we were talking about what we were reading, and I think it’s a great way to read.
Apparently, Fysa (the girl who I buddy read ACOTAR with) and I had similar opinions about what we were reading. While Joana loved this book (and you can read her review
here), I wasn’t impressed by it. I liked it, it was an interesting and enjoyable reading, but I didn’t fall in love with the story.
First of all, I thought the beginning was incredibly slow, and it's difficult to get into the book. I can assure you I only began to like the book around 60% of the book, which is bad because it’s more than half of the book being mediocre. I also didn’t like any of the main characters, either we are talking about Tamlin (who is super boring) or Feyre. I was more interested and curious about Tamlin’s best friend, Lucien – who I liked to know more about, and I think he should have more presence in this story.
I must say, Sarah J. Maas knows how to write, and although I was liking it that much, I thought it was well written (it sounds like a paradox, I know, but it’s true). An excellent example is the fact I started to channeling Feyre’s feeling towards Tamlin. That’s a really good about its writing.
I confess that, according to what happened, and what Feyre had to do at the end of the book, I liked her a little bit more. But not only because of that, it’s important to point out this female character is not that “good, fragile, and virgin girl” who is abducted. No. She’s the youngest of three sisters, but she’s the one who hunts and supports her family; and she talks about her emotions, and sexual encounters, without taboos, which is really positive about Feyre, and about the way Maas is developing this story.
My favourite character was, without a doubt, Amarantha, the villain of this first book (since it’s a trilogy, and the third book,
A Court of War and Ruin will come out May 2nd). She’s exactly the kind of woman and villain I like to read, without scrupulous, cruel and full of herself. She was an incredible villain, and way more interesting than any of the other characters from this book. I was a shame she only showed up at the end of the book. Well, she’s all over this book, but as a “shadow”, she only truly shows up at the end of the book, and draws all the attention for her!
A Court of Thorns and Roses is a heavy book, talking about complicated themes, but they are - all of them - very important for the plot. But summing up, I liked it, but it’s not that much. I’m super curious about
A Court of Mist and Fury, because besides the fact everyone seems to love that book, but there will be a character to whom I fell in love right the second I met him. That sarcasm and arrogance.. ui!
