A Court of Thorns and Roses – Cannonball Read 17

Coping with this book via Pros and Cons.

A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4) by Sarah J. Maas

May 26, 2021 by narfna 9 Comments

This is a book I’ve been avoiding reviewing because I have so many complicated thoughts and feelings about it; it’s overwhelming. Does SJM not provoke complicated feelings in everyone? I feel like she’s very divisive, and it’s not always clear where all the animosity is coming from* (or rather, ‘why’ it’s coming; people who hate her and her books are VERY loud about it, so in that sense it’s very easy to see from whence said animosity is being hurled). And yeah, Maas makes some, […]

Once more I dive into the breach of Sarah J. Maas’ overly sexual YA (#Remix)

Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

October 20, 2019 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

So after hate-reading most of Sarah J. Maas’ Throne of Glass series last year (haven’t been able to get through the last one yet), I decided to embark on reading her Court of whatevers series, because I needed something fluffy and vaguely risque. (Important note: I do NOT mean it dismissively when I say something is fluffy. Just because it is written largely for teenage girls does not mean it is therefore automatically inferior!) I actually enjoyed it much more than I expected–at least until […]

A Court of Fun and Nonsense

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas

August 28, 2019 by alwaysanswerb Leave a Comment

I waited way, way too long to review these properly (my MO for this entire Cannonball), so my scattered impressions are these: º Sarah J Maas has a real talent for world-building and concepts. Her depictions of the fae in this book and in her other series are rooted in just enough common fae lore that she doesn’t have to get bogged down filling in lots of backward detail, but she of course contributes enough of her own unique features that they aren’t interchangeable across […]

Book two is definitely the highlight of this series, but this is a pretty good ending.

A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3) by Sarah J. Maas

June 24, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

This actually reminded me a lot of the ending to Throne of Glass; I had similar issues with it. But ultimately, this was a pretty good finish to the series. I definitely didn’t like it as much as I liked the second book. It was much messier, structurally. She just really isn’t great in my opinion at writing that end of series final battle book. She relies pretty heavily on deus ex machinas, and a lot of the intimate character growth we got last book […]

The villain/hero swap!

A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2) by Sarah J. Maas

April 25, 2019 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was compulsively readable, and it is by far the most I’ve ever enjoyed anything Sarah J. Maas has written (previously that dubious honor went to the third Throne of Glass book, which now that I come to think of it, this book is very similar to). Her writing style continues to work much better in the first person, and I was actually super impressed at how this book basically dismantles everything you thought you knew about the first book. I find it ballsy of […]

I liked this??????

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas

January 9, 2019 by narfna 6 Comments

I was already poised to like this book, past feelings about Sarah J. Maas aside. It’s a Beauty and the Beast/Ballad of Tam Lin hybrid retelling, and unless you make some sort of grave mistake, you’ve already got the outline of the story ready to go (tried and true over hundreds of years and variations), and it’s pretty hard to mess that up. And she doesn’t! I thought the story worked well as a combo B&B/Tam-Lin/original elements mish-mash. The first half is mostly Beauty and the […]

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