Harper Ellison★ Sage · Lv 7
todayI know, I know. But I read the whole series in a week and I regret nothing.
Fantasy
A Court of Thorns and Roses
4.5· 1,825 ratings
Published 2013451 pagesEnglishSensual · Addictive
Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don't feel anything at all.
Why read it
A nineteen-year-old huntress kills a wolf to feed her starving family, not knowing it was a faerie in disguise, and a beast arrives at her door to claim her life as payment, dragging her across the wall into a lethal immortal kingdom.
The premise
Feyre is taken to Prythian by Tamlin, a High Fae lord whose lands are cursed, and what begins as captivity becomes attraction and then a fight for survival. When a tyrannical queen threatens to destroy everything, Feyre must face deadly trials to save the fae world and the male she loves. It is a Beauty and the Beast retelling that grows into a sprawling romantic fantasy.
The story behind it
Sarah J. Maas published A Court of Thorns and Roses in 2015, launching a series that has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide and became a defining title of the romantasy boom. A television adaptation has been in development.
What awaits inside
- 01
Beauty and the Beast, reimagined
What awaits is a familiar fairy tale bent toward danger, desire, and war.
- 02
A mortal among the Fae
Feyre must survive a world where she is the weakest and most disposable being.
- 03
Trials Under the Mountain
The climax hinges on lethal challenges and a riddle that costs everything to solve.
- 04
Love that reshapes a kingdom
Feyre's choices ripple outward, setting up the larger saga to come.
From the book
Feyre killing the great wolf in the winter woods, the act that brings Tamlin to her cottage to demand her life.
The trials Under the Mountain, where Amarantha forces Feyre through deadly tasks and a final riddle to free Tamlin's court.
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