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A Court of Thorns & Roses #03: A Court of Wings & Ruin

/ 05 STARS, SJM AR A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES

A Court of Wings and Ruin Book Cover A Court of Wings and Ruin
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
Juvenile Fiction
Bloomsbury Childrens
May 4, 2017
Hardcover
432

WrensReads Review:

Overall, this book did not disappoint. I was overwhelmed and obsessed from page one. There were some flaws, just like every single book out there because, believe it or not, Sarah J Maas is actually human and she isn’t perfect. Do you know how hard it is to please everyone? Like my goodness, if you don’t like it, don’t read it. Find something you DO like to obsess over! POSITIVE VIBES! There are some things I felt “eh” about as well, but it doesn’t mean I didn’t think this book was thrilling!

To describe my seesaw of emotions, I decided to invite Also Me into my review.

Me: Sarah J Maas writes like a goddess.
Also Me: Stop writing things for me to obsess over.

Me: The love that was between the three sisters was overwhelming. Some authors can’t grasp the love between siblings well enough, and Sarah J Maas hit home for me.
Also Me: Why was Elaine so delicate? Why was she always needing someone to protect her from the very first character of this series? She didn’t really grow any. Not like Nesta or Feyre did anyway.

Me: Rhysand was so perfect and I need him in my life.
Also Me: He was way too perfect, where are his flaws? HE HAS NONE.

Me: I love that there were some Bible references, like the “parting of the water and walking across on dry land.”
Also Me: There were more than one reference and I started to question her creativity.

Me: Sarah J Maas really listened to her fans and haters and put in more diversity with race and sexuality. She took constructive criticism well.
Also Me: I low-key hate that two of my ships crashed and burned because of your diversity. But I understand the change of course and appreciate the artist choice.

Me: I am happy she stuck to one point of view in this book.
Also Me: I kind of wanted to see Lucien’s journey more than anything else.

Me: I hurt so much for so many of my book loves. They were good and kind people and will ruin their own lives or reputation for the good of their people. We need more selfless people in the world like these fictional, magic-wielding beings.
Also Me: Don’t bring someone to life after you kill them. Let us hurt for them. Let us mourn for them. Don’t just bring people back to make everyone happy. That’s not realistic (she states about a fantasy book).
The Other Me: Everyone had such heart breaking back stories, but why didn’t anyone have one that they were at fault for something? Like everyone was the victim and it kind of seemed as if maybe someone could have been the horrible person that learned to be a better person? Just a thought. I still love and obsess over all of my court.

*yah, sometimes the The Other Me just POPS her head in. Rude hag.

Me: You can tell that Maas planned this book out from end to beginning. There’s absolutely no way she could have just sat there and wrote without knowing where she was going.
Also Me: Why did she plan to puncture my heart?

Me: This book was absolutely consistent with sultriness.
Also Me: Sometimes I thought it could have been sprinkled on a little less and focused more on the plot itself.

Me: I shipped so many couples and I loved every single one of them.
Also Me: Why does everyone always have to pair up? Can’t you show that someone, guy or girl, could be a strong, independent individual and still be just as happy?

Me: There are so many characters and they are so different from each other and have their own backstories and flaws.
Also Me: There are so many main characters that sometimes I felt overwhelmed.

Me: I love how beautiful everything is and how it is described.
Also Me: Why don’t ugly people exist?

Me: Rhysand and Feyre are couple goals. They let the other be their own person, they cherished and loved each other for their individualities and they showed us what a healthy, growing, and beautiful relationship should be like between two grown adults. They even had arguments and fights and handled those with grace.
Also Me: What she said.

Me: Tamlin is so hated but he is so hurt. Yah, he has his issues but my goodness, he is so rained on in this book. The ending kind of made up for it (and it was kind of more realistic than most books handling break ups) but my word.. he doesn’t deserve all the hate.
Also Me: I hate him. He’s hateful.

Me: The character development was astronomical. Even the “side-main” characters had unbelievable growth and character development. I don’t feel as if anyone acted outside of their character. No one was just copied and pasted or cut and redone.
Also Me: I wish we learned more about the other courts. I hope she has stories based in them ready for me to read. Even if they are just novellas (LIKE ABOUT LUCIEN’S MOTHER).

Me: Feyre is WONDERFUL.
Also Me: How does she “struggle” through out the book and then all of a sudden she is phenomenal when she needs it?

Me: This book was wrapped up wonderfully.
Also Me: Did it feel too happy to anyone else?
The Other Me: A Court of Mist and Fury is still my favorite. A Court of Thorns and Roses… did that actually happen or did we dream it?
Wow it’s Me: I’m so not disappointed. I’m so content and happy and thrilled with this series.

Anyone else have “Also Me” thoughts on any of these topics? Or one I didn’t mention? Haters, you can hate in the comments all you want, just don’t be ugly. I would love to hear your opinions too. You have a right to your opinion just as much as the rest of us. JUST RESPECT EACH OTHER’S OPINIONS.

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RTC, like tonight if I find my head that imploded from this book.

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Anxiously Waiting…

4 WEEKS 4 WEEKS 4 WEEKS

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Can it be May 2nd 2017 yet!?!?! PLEASE!

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A Court of Thorns & Roses #02: A Court of Mist & Fury

/ 05 STARS, SJM AR A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES

A Court of Mist and Fury Book Cover A Court of Mist and Fury
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
Juvenile Fiction
Bloomsbury USA Childrens
May 03, 2016
Hardcover
640

The stunning sequel to Sarah J. Maas' New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses. Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court--but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future--and the future of a world cleaved in two. With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive and action-packed series to new heights.

WrensReads Review:

If you haven’t read the first book in this series, you need to click that upper arrow going “<--" and high tail it OUT of my review. If you have read the first book, know that when you read this book, your entire views on characters are going to change. You are going to be doing this:

Maas has literally stolen my heart with this book. I LOVE THE ‘SHIP’ CHANGE BECAUSE TAMLIN IS LITERALLY INSANE.

I was going insane by his insanity. I was getting so frustrated with this book that I read ahead just to know that my sanity was going to come back. If I really had it in the first place, that is.

How would you like it if someone took you away from your family from killing a beast in the woods and always told you to stick to the house? Never let you go anywhere without them? Then when you literally save their behind, he STILL MAKES YOU STICK BY THE HOSUE and this time YOU CAN’T EVEN LEAVE WITH HIM?! Seriously! Can you say abusive much? If you PLEADED with him because you can’t even find joy in the things you once loved and you were basically becoming a ghost of yourself and HE DOES NOTHING?

Seriously, what person WOULDN’T GO INSANE?

I have a lot of feelings for this book. Most are good and some are horrifying and some are just confused because I have yet to process them.

The writing in this book is so different but relatable and the story so compelling that I have literally only slept eight hours… this week. Monday-Friday. I would fall asleep with this book in my lap.

Rhysand is literally a dream.

Everything he does, no matter how twisted it seems at the time, is for those he loves and the bigger cause. Family. Friends. His Court. His mate. He didn’t care what other people thought of him. Whoring around with the enemy? Here let me sit in her lap and let her play with me. Killing when bored? Why thank you, let me break both your legs because I need some excitement. Evil beyond repair? Let me show you the darkness that I hide.

I feel like the last book was a prequel. Like it happened so long ago because nothing in it makes sense to me anymore yet somethings I thought made since one way, make sense now the other way. Like it was once thought of as a cute or sweet or nice thing and now I look back and thing ‘what the heck was I thinking? That’s creepy, controlling and not okay.’

The last book was just a set up for the big bad going down. Amarantha? Might as well have put angel wings and a halo on her.

The King Hybern is the one you need to read about to believe how horrible he is. Literally nothing good about him. I’m pretty sure his mother never showed him love and his father beat him. He sits on a throne of human bones guys. He is the maker of Amarantha. Should this really come as a shock that he isn’t King of Candyland? I feel there is a reason they have Courts instead of Kingdoms and my reasoning begins with everything involving this King.

He wants to destroy the human race still, even after he lost the war the first time. And he has a way of doing it if he gets the right parts. The only person who knows (or think he knows) what to do in order to stop him? Rhysand and his Inner Circle. But Feyre may be able to make it a lot easier for them.. but what about Tamlin?

There is just so many things that happen in this book that I can’t even think straight. I may go back and edit this review because I am writing this right when the book ends and there are tears of frustration there. (Side Note: I did and I’ll probably keep editing it).

Third edit: I also wanted to add that Maas did a good job with the grief of killing innocent people and the impact it has one someone. Feyre doesn’t just pop out of bed and is okay. She has nightmares. She grows into herself and keeps to herself. She is carrying a burden. She breaks down. She isn’t the same and that’s something a lot of people don’t put into their characters.

This is NOT a book for people under 18. It says young adult, but really it means young ADULT. Meaning 18+. It can get prrrretty graphic in the sexy department and I am not sure parents will want their kids to read about that kind of stuff. But, I mean, I wasn’t mad about it.

Maas you need to get this book written and out because I need to know. I will preorder like seven copies just for myself. Please.

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A Court of Thorns & Roses #01: A Court of Thorns & Roses

/ 05 STARS, SJM AR A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES

A Court of Thorns and Roses Book Cover A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
Juvenile Fiction
Bloomsbury USA Childrens
May 05, 2015
Hardcover
432

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin-one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow over the faerie lands is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever. Perfect for fans of Kristen Cashore and George R. R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!

WrensReads Review:

Purely wonderful. Purely magical.

Beauty and the Beast is my favorite of the Princess stories. I’m not sure if it is because Belle is a nerdy brunette with a lot of sass and a love for books (sounds familiar..) or if it’s because she is one of the few princesses that doesn’t fall in love within the first meeting with their prince.

Probably both.

Feyre lives in a world separated by a wall. On the south, the mortal humans live in fear of those immortal faeries that live in the north side of the wall. A treaty was made long ago between the two species that they would basically leave each other alone.

So what happens when, under spoiler-like circumstances, Feyre basically has to sign over her life and live in the North with a faerie and leave her family behind? Not to mention that she promised her mother she would take care of them when she died and they LITERALLY depend on her for food, money, and any other necessities you can think of?

All she can think about is finding a way back home to make sure the masked-faeries haven’t left her family to die of starvation.

Masked?

It seems that the faeries of the Spring Court can’t remove something as ridiculous as a mask from their face because of some strange power. Their powers are weakened by it too. But who cares about that? Obviously not a human who hates faeries, especially the ones she is doomed to spend the rest of her miserable life with, and has other, more important, things to worry about.

At least… for now.

I loved this book. It has been a while since I had gotten into a high-fantasy book (if you don’t count Game of Thrones), and this one did not disappoint. The writing was good enough to stand out to me. It wasn’t written to pointedly make me feel a certain way like a lot of young adult books lean on these days. it was actually written to coast you through the story and not really direct you, if that makes sense. I had enough creative freedom to come up with ideas on my own, yet I didn’t stray too far from the path.

It was good enough to make me add it to my favorite young adult series books AND give it five stars. With my average of 2.99, that is a big deal.

I don’t think I can wait for the next book to get to my house by Saturday; but then again, the book didn’t end on a cliff hanger. I wasn’t like squirming and screaming afterwards; there is a definite idea of what the next one could go to and there is closure for sure, but I know there is more to come and this is just the beginning.

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