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A review by aemryreads
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
3.0
I wanted to rate this book 3.5 stars, but there are no half stars on goodreads and acotar doesn't deserve four stars.
After putting this book off for almost a year and claiming I would never read it, here I am. I finally caved. I put my money and trust into Sarah and I safely say that I only regretted it for the first three-fourths of the book. She's fucking lucky the last hundred pages were so good because otherwise, this book would've been pretty ass.
I think this book proves just how good Sarah is at writing when there are real stakes. When nothing was going on (basically) for the first almost 300 pages, I was barely hanging on. I didn't necessarily want to read, but I kept reading out of the hope that it would get better. And as everyone claimed, it did get better. Stakes were raised and oh my god wouldn't you believe it, it actually got interesting.
I was also surprised to see that this book was published after the first four books in the TOG series were published. The writing in, dare I say, all of those was better than the writing in this book, which is a bit confusing.
Despite the slower majority of the book, I can understand its purpose. There is a lot of info dumping at a certain point, but she covers her ass with a minor detail that was dumb but unfortunately made sense.
There is a fun subplot that will make for a very interesting book 2, so I am excited for that.
All that being said, it is super interesting to read Sarah's series because there are so many parellels that are like "Oh so you just really like this story, huh". I could argue that ACOTAR is just TOG (walmart version, featuring less violence), but, I will wait until I'm done with the entire series to see how the entire story unfolds. It's also not that fair of me to compare series' so, especially when I read TOG first so of course I would like it more. I will try to continue my Acotar journey, thinking of it as a standalone series instead of comparing it to TOG. God, I love TOG.
After putting this book off for almost a year and claiming I would never read it, here I am. I finally caved. I put my money and trust into Sarah and I safely say that I only regretted it for the first three-fourths of the book. She's fucking lucky the last hundred pages were so good because otherwise, this book would've been pretty ass.
I think this book proves just how good Sarah is at writing when there are real stakes. When nothing was going on (basically) for the first almost 300 pages, I was barely hanging on. I didn't necessarily want to read, but I kept reading out of the hope that it would get better. And as everyone claimed, it did get better. Stakes were raised and oh my god wouldn't you believe it, it actually got interesting.
I was also surprised to see that this book was published after the first four books in the TOG series were published. The writing in, dare I say, all of those was better than the writing in this book, which is a bit confusing.
Despite the slower majority of the book, I can understand its purpose. There is a lot of info dumping at a certain point, but she covers her ass with a minor detail that was dumb but unfortunately made sense.
Spoiler
the detail being that the curse didn't allow them to tell her any lore in great detail whatever bullshitThere is a fun subplot that will make for a very interesting book 2, so I am excited for that.
All that being said, it is super interesting to read Sarah's series because there are so many parellels that are like "Oh so you just really like this story, huh". I could argue that ACOTAR is just TOG (walmart version, featuring less violence), but, I will wait until I'm done with the entire series to see how the entire story unfolds. It's also not that fair of me to compare series' so, especially when I read TOG first so of course I would like it more. I will try to continue my Acotar journey, thinking of it as a standalone series instead of comparing it to TOG. God, I love TOG.