Welcome back everyone! Or the two or three people who read the paper. Anyway, for those of you who are new, here’s the deal, I’ll be brutally rating popular books online and telling you whether they're worth reading or not. Today’s victim? A Court of Thorns and Roses. 

Now do you know when books have a ridiculously long, info-dumpy prologue that you really don’t want to read but have to in order for the rest of the story to make sense? Anyone? Okay…just me then. Well that’s pretty much this book in a nutshell. 

The plot takes forever to start off and I guarantee that you will not understand the first half of the book because of how much information the author  throws at you. Now I’ll admit that when things became clearer as the book progressed, the world Sarah J. Maas  brought us was pretty decent, however I have read books with better world building that didn’t take half the story to create. As the novel finally starts to reach its climax (if you could even call it that) it does so with two chapters of straight up dialogue and explanation. Two flipping chapters! I’m not sure what you guys are into in your books but I know for a fact that I myself do not like ten pages worth of explanation about something I guessed a long time ago. (That is not reader friendly behavior Sarah!)

It is not only the painful plot twist and slow storyline that made me dislike the book but also the foolishness of the protagonist, Feyre. Yet again another book with evil, gaslighting sisters, weak female main characters and non-existent mothers who forced their twelve year old daughters to hold together the family. Why is this getting so oddly specific? 

Now that I have ranted through another book review here are my thoughts. 

1. How did this book get popular enough to want a sequel?

2. Why for the love of all things sacred can’t Sarah J. Maas write a half decent world?

3. Are annoying female main characters a new trope? Because it seems to be!

In conclusion, I really didn’t like this book and I honestly don’t think anyone should read it unless they’re desperate to read the sequel A Court of Mist and Fury. Overall two out of five.