A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas

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As the story begins, Feyre's friends-with-benefits relationship with a village boy is ending; Tamlin, being immortal, has had many lovers. Some describe Nesta as ambitious and authoritative character but to me she was very selfish, cold, and distant. Honestly the side characters were more interesting and had more character growth and personality than the main character. I enjoyed the character growth in this book over the first in the series and the discoveries that the characters make, but this book it does have a lot of GRAFIC sex scenes that I would not recommend for the under 18 crowd.

With destruction and warfare in the past, for the moment at least, there's a lot less violence and gore than in the earlier books, but there are some dark flashbacks and forebodings along with upbeat messages of hope. So the next shitty character I’ll be talking about is none other than Amren the hoe and Mor the bird.I initially thought this novel was quite slow, and almost gave up by page 50, but there was still a spark igniting my interest in the plot.

THEN in fey world went on whole refusing to train/ help others but demanding they protect ONE of her sisters? In a vaguely ancient-Celtic world (whose map, at the beginning of the book, strongly resembles the British Isles) where the faeries regularly war with one another, engage in back-stabbing intrigue, and massacre hapless victims of all species, humans struggle to survive on the tiny bit of territory the faeries have left them. Meanwhile, Feyre discovers she's acquired remarkable powers since her transformation and struggles to learn to use them. Military training, including hand-to-hand fighting, is part of the story; so is sometimes-mortal combat involving both magic and physical weapons. While there are things I really like about this book overall, those things should wait until someone is of the age they can appreciate them!I don't necessarily hate Mor and Amren, but they’ve become so ** irrelevant in the fourth book that there's really no point in talking about them anymore. And so Nesta is forced to obey Mr “You always have a choice” Rhysand and attend training with Cassian.

Immortals gather to celebrate the solstice in A Court of Frost and Starlight, and protagonists Feyre and Rhysand have epic sex before moving offstage, setting up the forthcoming spin-off centered on another couple, Nesta and Cassian. So I believe that it really just depends on the persons’ maturity and understanding of the topic but with that, I’m not saying give this book to a 9-year-old to read that’s not what I am saying at all. When I heard Maas was bringing out a modern fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast – my favourite Disney story of all time – I knew that the time was now and I had to read this book! Well it certainly wasn't what i was saying but if, in anyway, my words have hurt you then I'm extremely sorry.I really enjoyed this book and its one of my favourites, I saw the tension and the connection between Rhus and Feyre and I would probably recommend it to anyone I meet. For some, the oft-repeated hand-wringing and internal debate, as well as the dialogue's tendency to veer from medieval to millennial and back, may get old; for others, it's part of the charm. The swearing in this book is moderate but I didn't find it bad, I'm exposed to it on a daily basis not because of my parents but because of my friends and school.

Maas reveals complex characters, puts them in impossible situations, and sets up plenty of developments in future volumes. Cassian tells her that everyone “fucking hates (her)” and later makes this out to be “oh, I just said that but I didn’t really mean it. After reading a few reviews I had thought that it was going to be nothing but sexually explicit scenes.

I have read a lot of the comments about the book and see a lot of 13-15 y/o mentioning the explicit intercourse scenes and how they are disturbed by them. I totally understand that for the younger readers the description of the scenes may be too vivid and therefore recommend the book for readers 15 and up ! Perfect, feminist king Rhysand who loves giving women a choice so long as they pick the one he wants them to.