A Court of Thorns and Roses

the first half of the book is dedicated to setting up the romance that will drive the plot of the book. in the second half of the book we're introduced to a new character and it becomes clear very quickly that this will be the real love interest in the series. this kind of nullifies all of the time spent on the romance in the first half. also the riddle was pretty bad. it was so obviously either hope or love (which is such a cliche). lastly the map is literally England, which would be ok if so many fantasy authors didn't do exactly this. we need to up our fantasy map game people 🙄

This book and series is so hyped up I bought the whole of it. So I'm going to be brutally honest. This first book (and that's all I've gotten through so far,) is a bad retelling of beauty and the beast. An impoverished town on the outskirts of an enchanted land where everyone is cursed. A girl is kidnapped by a beast with a surly and standoffish attitude.... not to mention the heroine of the story... I wouldn't even consider her a heroin. She is a teenager, and due to being impoverished, is forced into her masculine, so she hunts and fights amongst other things and knows nothing of how to be an actual woman. This book is giving pick me girl vibes to the max. I'm flabbergasted to be honest. I'll probably come back with more as I continue the other half of the book, if I can.

It's not like the other fantasy books I own, which makes it unique. But it's really overhyped and boring. The plot is not exciting and weird. I get it, the main character lives in a poor family and kills a wolf out of desperation during WINTER, but WHY would the wolf be Andras (A PERSON) in disguise? basically, Feyre and her family ATE Lucien's friend. That sounds wrong and it made me uninterested in the book after.