A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns And Roses #1)
Sarah J Maas
YA - Fantasy
416 Pages
A Court of Thorns and Roses was recommended to me by my aunt, and I am so glad that I picked it up. Feyre and Tamlin are so perfect together, Lucien is a witty, sarcastic, know it all who really does care about Feyre's well being. I don't know what else to say about this book than ALL THE FEELS. I felt every emotion while reading this book, I felt like one with the characters. I felt what Feyre felt, I even cried a couple of times. Sarah J Maas is a wonderful author, and I'm looking forward to starting Throne of Glass.
Feyre is the middle child who, after her mother passes, is the caretaker of the family. She cooks, cleans, hunts, and provides. Once, they were nobility, living in a fancy house, wearing fancy clothes and being waited on hand and foot. When Feyre's father invests all of the family's money into some ships to be sent across the ocean and bring back more riches and jewels, the ships are never found, causing the debt collectors to collect their payment in another way. In way of broken bones and taking everything they own. The family looses their rank, Feyre's father's leg is completely shattered, and they're now outcasts.
The first page of the book takes place while Feyre is hunting. She finds a doe eating quietly and goes to shoot it when she sees a large wolf pursuing it as well. Now, in this world, animals are not always animals. Sometimes, the High Faeries are shifted into the shape of an animal such as a wolf. Feyre takes her chances and shoots the wolf, seeing as it will provide a pelt worth enough to give her family some extra money for the month. The wolf doesn't revert back into a faerie, so she shoots the doe and skins the wolf selling the pelt the next day at the market.
That night, a beast with the mane of a lion burst's through the door at Feyre's home demanding to know who shot and sold the pelt of one of his court. He gives Feyre the choice to die or to return to Prythian with him and live out her life comfortably as a member of the Spring Court. Tamlin wipes the family's minds so that they think Feyre is away taking care of a dying aunt.
Upon arrival to the Spring Court in Prythian, Feyre is very reserved. She doesn't talk, doesn't associate and barely eats. In the end, hunger wins out when presented with a multi course meal that she hasn't had since her family was nobility. She stays in the manor and after a while, lives happily. Painting, learning to read and write, and of course falling in love with Tamlin.
Tamlin tells Feyre about later on is about the "sickness" plaguing the lands of Prythian. All of the faeries in the land have lost most of their powers, and in Tamlin's court, the people are stuck with masquerade masks after the "plague" hit. The plague spoken of is not a sickness, but a dampening of magic abilities due to a curse by Amarantha, a woman who tricked the High Fae of the lands into giving her all the powers.
Fast forward to after Feyre and Tamlin fall in love and realize it for themselves, Tamlin sends Feyre away just as things are getting worse in Prythian. She doesn't know why, and refuses at first, but has no choice after all. She is sent back home to her family, who has been completely taken care of by Tamlin, and spends three months there before deciding she doesn't care if Tamlin wants her there, she's going to go back and help. When she returns, she is met with a destroyed, abandoned house. She is told by a servant who came back to forage that she was the solution to the whole situation. Tamlin had to have a human who hated faeries fall in love with him for the curse to be broken, Instead, now she has to trek to Under the Mountain where Amarantha now rules all of Prythian with Tamlin as her (Unwilling) partner, and go through three trials or solve Amarantha's riddle.
I of course solved the riddle as soon as I read it.
“There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow... ”
In the end, she completes the tasks, nearly dying multiple times in the process, but of course, Amarantha never meant to let her and Tamlin leave together alive. After Feyre completes the trials and Amarantha refuses to let them leave immediately, Tamlin, fully restored to his full magical powers, kills Amarantha.... after she kills Feyre.
For saving the population of Prythian, the seven high lords of the land, breathe life back into Feyre and she becomes a High Lady.
This book is definitely a read it now, in my opinion. Grab the book from somewhere, from someone, and divulge yourself in the world of Prythian.
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