A Court of Thorns and Roses

Loved it. It was a fun world to explore with a familiar beauty and the beast plot. Crushed this book in less than two days, it was fun to be swept up like that.

I docked a star because I did find it a little too neat and perfect. At one point I was like “oh so this is literally just the story of Beauty and the Beast but the beast is hot the whole time and we get to read about them boning, k” I also don't understand how the heroine can be so crafty and smart and also SO DUMB at the same time. A little cruel on the authors part because it's clearly just to add some fake friction and our clever girl deserves better. I enjoy character studies and world building but I feel like something must have happened in the editing process because it's all mystery and intrigue for a few hundred pages and then a single character tells all in a single monologue. Also somehow the phrase “my bowels turned watery” shows up 3 times and it's just way too vivid and awkward to use more than once.

So a little bit disappointing but I still had so much fun and can't wait to read the next!