Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

Subgenre
romantasy
Published
2015

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Why these tropes fit

This romantasy centers a captive romance between human huntress Feyre and immortal faerie Tamlin that shifts from icy hostility to fiery passion, set in a treacherous high-fantasy faerie realm threatened by an ancient wicked shadow that sends Feyre on a quest to save Tamlin and his world, with Feyre framed as a strong, capable heroine navigating the dark, dangerous Fae.

Evidence from the source

  • Captive Romance: “Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends” source
  • Enemies to Lovers: “her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae.” source
  • Fae Romance: “her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.” source
  • High Fantasy: “Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.” source
  • Quest: “Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever.” source
  • Strong Heroine: “When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution.” source

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Content notes

  • animal harm
  • kidnapping
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