A Court of Thorns and Roses
A huntress kills a wolf in the woods and is taken across the wall to answer for it, into a fae court where the punishment turns out to be a life she is not prepared to want. The first half is a slow, quiet Beauty and the Beast; the second half is not. On the House's scale it rates 3 for spice (hot), 5 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. Anyone who wants to understand what the entire genre has been arguing about since 2015.
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How it rates
- Author
- Sarah J. Maas
- Series
- A Court of Thorns and Roses, book 1 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 3 out of 5, Hot3/5 · Hot
- Romance
- 5/5
- Plot
- 3/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Prythian, a fae realm divided into seasonal courts
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 451
On the spice rating Two explicit scenes late in the book, written at length. Everything before them is tension. How the scale works.
Content warnings violence, torture, captivity, death of a partner.
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