A Court of Thorns and Roses

I struggled with what to rate this book. It's not a literary masterpiece; it's not breaking any new ground or doing anything particularly special with the writing. It's fluffy, a little violent, a little smutty. But it's fun. I genuinely enjoyed reading it and sped through it pretty quickly.

Comparisons in other reviews to Twilight , Beauty and the Beast , and even “True Blood”, are probably fair. Maas uses the Beauty and the Beast fable as the broad outline for her story. Instead of vampires, we get “gorgeous” and powerful faeries, with a human girl, Feyre, thrown into the mix.

If you don't mind something close to those stories with a bit more fun thrown in, you will like this book.