The story follows the journey of mortal Feyre Archeron after she is brought into the faerie lands of Prythian for murdering a faerie, and the epic love story and fierce struggle that follows after she enters the fae lands. Maas, beginning with the novel of the same name, released in May 2015. Recommended for older teens due to mature content and themes (sex, violence, abuse).A Court of Thorns and Roses is a new adult fantasy novel series by American author Sarah J.

If you enjoy lush fantasy world-building, strong female protagonists, deep ensemble cast of characters, and well-written action sequences, this series delivers. Overall: This series was a pleasant surprise. Readers will be satisfied with her growth as a character and her role in protecting the world she loves. While not the last book in this world, this book is a solid conclusion to the trilogy that is Feyre’s story arc. For a series that has explored abuse, trauma, and recovery–it made sense for the author to show the toll war takes on the mind and spirit. And yet why she fought and what drove her. Seeing war from Feyre’s point-of-view, someone who hasn’t experienced it prior, gave a glimpse of how war changes your soul. While lives lost, injury, and overall destruction were portrayed, it was the mental and spiritual toll that she highlighted in the story. I was also really impressed with how the author conveyed the costs of war.

The world really comes to life, and sets up a wealth of possibilities for future books. It’s not just places that we get glimpses of, but the people who inhabit each of the different Courts. Steps and balconies and archways and verandas and bridges linked the towers and gilded domes of the palace, periwinkle morning glories climbing the pillars and neatly cut blocks of stone to drink in the gilded mists wafting by. Their palace reads like a calm, pastel paradise: The Dawn Court in particular was one that I loved imagining. In this book, more than any other, we get glimpses of the other Courts: Autumn Court, Winter Court, Dawn Court, and Day Court. The final book in the series really excels in two ways: world-building and showing the costs of war. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit – and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.Īs war bears down upon them all, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords – and hunt for allies in unexpected places. Summary from Goodreads (Book 3): Looming war threatens all Feyre holds dear in the third volume of the #1 New York Times bestselling A Court of Thorns and Roses series.įeyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. Big Themes: Magic, War, Love, Relationships, Sisterhood, Sacrifice, Identity, Redemption

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