A Court of Thorns and Roses

Not my usual genre but Booktube kept mentioning it and I liked the cover, so when I spotted it for cheap in my local supermarket I figured why not.

This book has the single most unlikeable MC that I've ever read. Not only a terrible Mary Sue but has no redeemable qualities about her. She does the absolute opposite of anything she's told and goes out of her way to make trouble and answer back on everything. She's supposed to be 19 but has the attitude of a spoiled 12 year old. The real fantasy part of this book is that a man would ever fall for someone who is constantly fighting him.

It definitely feels like it was written as a fanfic by a teen in 2004. But I weirdly find myself wanting to read the next one, even though I couldn't say I enjoyed this, and this first novel is a self contained story. So I don't neeeed to read the next one, but I still might.

Let me be clear when I say that my rating is for Lucien, the only character with any real depth.