Book Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.
As a fan of Sarah’s previous series Throne of Glass, I was very excited to see another world of hers coming to life. This story was originally described as loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.
Feyre reminds me quite a bit of Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games - thrown to the wolves and having to fight for survival (even before being chosen as tribute). She and her family are basically living in poverty and it’s up to her to provide a food source so they don’t starve - until she has to trade her life for a life she took while hunting. She then is taken to the faerie realm north of the human lands of Prythian, where she learns that while some of the rumors and stories about faeries are false, many more of them are true. She has to confront her own traumas from the past and her prejudices to help save the fae that she comes to care for. She is also forced to confront her own prejudices and she learns that the humans aren’t entirely innocent in the story of the war in Prythian, nor are the faeries wholly villainous.
