A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J. Maas
Overall rating: 4.5/5
Feyre hunts to feed her family, but when she kills a wolf, she must choose between death and living out the rest of her days over the wall in fae territory. A place humans fear and one which now holds a curse which fixes masks to the faces of all who have fallen under it. But as Feyre soon discovers there is much more to this curse that she first thought. What’s more, whilst planning her escape and adapting to this new life, Feyre is falling for her capture.
This is the first book in a series which combines faerie and folk law with fairy-tale adaptations and retellings. As you may have guessed, this particular book is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I’ll be honest; it was that alone which sold this book to me. I’ve read quite a few fairy-tale retellings recently and I highly enjoy them. Whilst the characters were interesting and developed well throughout the story, it wasn’t so much these characters which kept me compelled, rather Sarah J. Maas’s world building of this fearie world. Her writing painted colour and images across my imagination perfectly.
As it is an adaptation, many aspects were predictable, however there were some unexpected twists thrown in along the way, the best of which are within the last few chapters.
