Summary

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. 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. 

At least, he’s not a beast all the time. 

As she adapts to her new home, 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. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it or doom Tamlin – and his world – forever. 

Why I chose to read this book
Although fantasy novels do not interest me one bit, I kept receiving ads for this book series on social media. After reading a few reviews from people who are also not into this genre, proclaiming they enjoyed ACOTAR, I decided to take the plunge and give it a try.

Thoughts & Opinions

I apologize in advance as I know this series has a huge fandom but I did not get the hype. It’s not the fact that it’s not a genre I normally read that made it unpleasant, it was the premise and the characters. I rolled my eyes so many times trying to get through this story I gave myself headaches.

I don’t see how this series is supposed to be classified as Young Adult fiction because it is gory, dark and so incredibly miserable. 

I liked Feyre, the main character, at first but the more I got to know her the less I liked her. Her life was spared and she kept questioning why. It’s like she wanted to get killed. Her dangerous stubbornness was a demonstration of stupidity. She always argues and talks back at the wrong times. She remains alive only through sheer luck. 

She falls in love with her captor (how original), Tamlin, which in my opinion, sends the wrong message to young readers. Tamlin is territorial and possessive and of course, she falls for that. There is also another character which see seems to, for some unknown reason, fall for; Rhysand. Although Rhysand kept doing despicable things, she kept referring to him as beautiful. I don’t know about you but as soon as a man does something evil, he instantly becomes ugly. That could be blamed on her maturity level or lack therefore; she’s only 19 so that could explain why – it takes time to learn that looks aren’t everything.

In order to give her some kind of personality besides being stubborn, we are led to believe Feyre enjoys art but I don’t think it was necessary because this aspect didn’t bring any advantage to her and didn’t serve any purpose. It just was not relevant in any way. Maybe in later books?

The “spicy” parts weren’t bad actually, I’d say they were satisfying if you don’t think too deeply about it. Because if you do, it’s just creepy knowing that the heroine is human whereas this creature (Tamlin) is some kind of super old fairy – not even sure how old but yeah, just weird when you think about it.

I will not be continuing with the series as I’d like to spare myself from any additional headaches.