Book profile
A Court of Thorns and Roses
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.7 · 3836 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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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.
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- 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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Trope fae romance
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her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passionRead the original source
Trope fae romance
Sarah J. Maas · Work-level source
her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passionRead the original source
